Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2018, 02:37:38 CEST schrieb Aaron B.: > But if you mean interfacing with hardware synthesizers made before 1999 > or so - then MIDI is the only way to go. There is still quite a bit of > such equipment still in use that will be used until it dies. > > Even modern USB based keyboards, knob boxes, and other such audio > controllers often emulate a USB to MIDI interface to interact with > software. This spares the expense of writing custom drivers. USB-MIDI "is" part of the MIDI standard.
Nearly any new modern electronic instrument today is equipped with MIDI - as DIN MIDI oder USB-MIDI (or both). I.e. take a look into i.e. any larger music equipment shop today. And MIDI is not only used for instruments anymore - it is a widely used standard in quasi any modern / professional studio (in soft and hardware) for M&C applications and much morre. The amount of MIDI capable devices worldwide ist still strongly growing. There was/is a kind of "renaissance of MIDI" which led the MIDI Association to work on a extended version of MIDI today. https://www.midi.org/ so - for developers "outside" the music industry and scene - MIDI is far from "obsolete" or "small niche..." today...ß) this jfyi. many thanks, best regards, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet http://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---
