> The entire keyboard/synth industry has been trying to do that for a > decade now, and only now it's beginning to take shape (MIDI 2.0). > There's just so much cruft in MIDI 1.0 that it's hard to extend it > without breaking it.
I don't think its fair to say that MIDI is encumbered by cruft. It is encumbered by falsely-applied standards - that is to say, the MIDI standard itself is very rarely fully implemented, properly, and then broken out to the user in a way that exploits the full specs. NRPN's, for example, are a mysterious voodoo, yet they are designed to solve so many of the issues that have risen, time and again. The distinction between MIDI 'standard controllers' and 'manufacturer- specific controllers' is also kablooey - we can thank Yamaha and Roland hating each other for that issue, I think. ; -- Jay Vaughan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
