John
Were you able to get a sense from the whole list of (a) which specific
MIDI (or MIDI-like) features & implementations are most desired; and (b)
how much they'd be willing to pay for this in player size?
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As follow-up to Tyler's blogsume and your question, here are the online key
resources to implement the above
Even implementing the old spec MSC 1.0 would be a great start for FlashMIDI.
That has been superseded by v1.1 and discussion is now underway [October
2005] to design the next generation known as MD-MIDI..
MIDI Industry Investigates Major Update to MIDI Protocol
http://www.midi.org/newsviews/hdmidipr.shtml
Some references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Show_Control#External_links
MSC 1.0
http://www.richmondsounddesign.com/txt/mscspec.txt
MID Manufacturers Association
http://www.midi.org/
see page on complete 1.0 spec
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/specinfo.shtml
Partial list of Sound & Show Control Projects that use MIDI Show Control
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/msc/mscchart.shtml
Finally, I highly recommend Adobe-Macromedia to run any plans for
implementing MIDI in the Flash Player past the excellent people who populate
the Show Control email forum. It's low volume very high signal to noise
professional discussion [averages around 100 messages per month until you
hit a hot topic :-)]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/show-control/
Closing comment:
I'd argue for implementing MSC and not getting yoo hung up on MIDI sound as
much.
Focus on how easily MIDI can enable interoperabilty among the growing
catalog of so many interestng devices and software. FlashMIDI would provide
a valuable missing part of that environment by virtue of easily customizable
user interfaces - superb scalable graphics and typogpraphy etc. The world of
touch screesn, kiosks handhelds..They all need to interface with eaach other
but also to sophisticated external hardware - videowalls, projectors etc.
The data demands of these applicatosin are often quite small. You get a big
bang for your buck and less perforamnce issues. That also makes it MSC an
excellent candidate for MIDI in the FLash Player v1.
I hope this helps
Thank You.
Best wishes
Jason Cunliffe
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