On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:13:10PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote: > Why can't those people who discussed it here (Dave R., Fons and probably > more - simply sit down and try to take as much as possible from the API - as > it is - and try to work this new concept around it.
Well, the two you mention have a long history of not having radically different views... :-) Seriously, there are three things that I profoundly dislike in MIDI. 1. The limited precision of almost all values, 7 bits or 14 with a kludge (but even this kludge is not available in any standard way for e.g. individual note frequencies). 2. Note events are identified by their frequency. 3. The only thing that can actually refer back to a note on event is it's corresponding 'note off' message. It's not possible to send a controller value that refers to a previous note-on event. The worst result of all this, and what really drives me nuts is that the same limits get built-in, carved in stone, into each and every piece of sequencing software. They all perpetuate what is in fact a form of cultural poverty "there's not quarter tones in pop music, so they don't exist" while technically there is no more reason to do so. Midi-over-jack has missed the chance to fix 1) which would have been relatively easy. And even 2) and 3) are not so difficult to get rid of. -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev