................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. Hmm? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: tech: New midi2 protocol coming Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:50:00 -0800 (PST) From: stephanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ajlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This may interest some of you.....new midi protocol via firewire From: "kristina childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:20:58 -0800 Subject: [sisterdjs] hardware heads up all you in the market for midi hardware, soundcards and soundcards w/midi ports listen up! in the next year midi2 will be released. it's a big deal because it's completely changing the midi protocol. there will no longer be midi in, out and thru. the recent development of firewire ( uses the braided cable w/clear plastic coating and a USB port plug) is doubling the capabilities of all digital audio, video and midi. with the old midi specifications, only 16 channels could be used. now hundreds of channels make anything possible. unlike midi cables that only allow data to be streamed in one direction, firewire allows it in both directions, eliminating the confusion caused by complex midi setups. in addition, all wires are sheilded, so you dont have to pay extra for sheilded wires (unsheilded midi cables can pick up outside frequencies that can add interesting news broadcasts and such to your beauitiful jungle track.) the speed is increadible: USB can only process 12 MB per second... FireWire goes at 400 MB per second- blowing everything out of the water. also, firewire will allow "hot swaps" (pluging or unpluging devices without haveing to reboot) you can plug in a device and the icon will appear on your desktop. saves much time and hassle the most significant reason you ladies should not make any hardware purchases until this is released is because all new machines coming out will only have the firewire ports- no more midi interfaces. of course old machines will still have their uses (if you want the particular sound from old mooge machines, you will still have to record it from that machine) but in the next few years machines with midi in, out and thru ports will be looked upon as antiques. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, dont buy that new korg, and stop drooling over that $600 sound card with midi ports. in 6-12 months they will be obsolete. save your money and buy a FireWire bus. learn more: http://www.vxm.com/21R.35.html http://www.orangemicro.com/firewire.html http://www.dvcentral.org/FireWire.html http://devworld.apple.com/hardware/FireWire/ ===== /"\ ASCII Ribbon campaign \ / Against gratuitious HTML/RTF email X Micro$oft Word docs / \ and proprietary formats __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
