On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 10:41 -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > > As for flexibility. If we stick to the NRPN's for a moment, we could > > think of them as a huge switch-board with 127*127 destinations (msb*lsb) > > each capable of holding a 14bit value. Their meaning is what we want or > > need them to be. To me this seems like a flexible enough starting point. > > > > As for applying meaning to bit-patterns, that would depend on the > > application. My own variables comes in multiples of 8 or 4 so that helps > > in remembering what and where they are. > > I assume that RTP MIDI could be wrapped in a nice library that makes working > with it a lot more pleasant? Couldn't someone implement a protocol over RTP > MIDI sysex/NRPN/something that feels something like OSC at the code level? Or > would that just not be very useful?
Extending MIDI's domain past what it is currently used for is just fundamentally the Wrong Thing - the need for such a library is basically proof of that. (I'm not saying RTP MIDI is bad at all, but it's not the solution to every problem out there) -DR-
