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. -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
