On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:27 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:07:26PM +0100, Albert Graef wrote: > > > Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > 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). > > > > Agreed. The MIDI Tuning Standard (MTS) was invented to fix that, but it > > doesn't really help with the "12 notes per octave" limitation and, being > > sysex, isn't really realtime, so it wouldn't be suitable to tune Aeolus > > on the fly anyway. > > The limits I referred to don't affect Aeolus, except that there's > no MIDI concept of 'stops' or anything near to it. > > They affect anyone who wants to use sequencing tools and/or soft synths, > while not being limited by MIDI's 'culturally challenged' idea what music > is or could be. > > Retuning Aeolus is very non-real-time operation anyway, and currently > Aeolus doesn't accept MTS.
This is why Jack MIDI is being used by people despite the limitations. Everyone /knows/ about them, they just don't care about huge sysex dumps (etc) for what they're doing - namely realtime control (notes and CC and such), what Jack MIDI was designed for. I for one would love to see a Jack MIDI version (and doubt I'm alone), Aeolus is great. Don't let these issues stop you if they don't immediately matter, they'll get fixed eventually... -DR- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev