On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 17:35 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote: > All of MIDI can be reduced to two messages: set-control (addressed by > Channel, Voice and Controller ID) .. and SYSEX - for data-dumps.
What you say is of course a true statement, but it is ignoring what the founding fathers of MIDI attempted to accomplish regarding efficiency on a bandwith limited connection and the likelyhood of certain messages appearing more oftenly than others ,,, Example: I play for you a D-minor chord. You would then tell me that this was excactly three messages (as per above.) You'd be wrong! This old DX7 will send a continuous stream of one-byte channel-pressure messages reflecting how I am leaning backwards or forwards. From a sequencer I could potentially send - as a wave at 3K samplerate - the message "Hello? This is Linux and I pronounce it as Linux!", and have it play back in an almost intelligible manner. (I am well aware that this little secret seems to have gone way over the head of management at famous hardware vendors in many cases.) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
