On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > But I like that idea, a lot. Maybe some enterprising LAD people could get > together and spec something like a midi interface running over firewire, > complete with the repeaters so it can be daisy-chained just like midi can > be, and hopefully release it into the PD as a new midi-2 interface > standard. And design it such that it never, ever gets into the snails > trail of the 31,250 baud interface it uses today. >
MIDI over IEEE-1394 (aka firewire) exists and is spec'ed by the MMA midi-consortium as an official standard. Unlike other publications from the MMA, this is a free download: http://www.midi.org/about-midi/rp27v10spec(1394).pdf --
