Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:29:46 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >I also wish I was 30 years younger with todays knowledge... In my opinion knowledge means less. More important IMO is the motivation, the skills to use free time. I wish I would be 30 years younger with the gear I own today. For

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-20 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019, Will J Godfrey wrote: More details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyXDeLbmeE Following on, I think our biggest problem is going to be actually getting the data into a computer. I can't imagine a practical way either ALSA or JACK can be modified to accept it. The video

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-20 Thread Will J Godfrey
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 21:39:59 + Will J Godfrey wrote: >On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) >Len Ovens wrote: > >>In fact MIDI 2 seems to be a thing mostly for non-kb instruments or computer >>generated material (most of which is probably using CV instead of MIDI >>anyway). >> >>MIDI 1

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS regarding robot pianos: A workaround for one issue would be to select different velocity curves by a CC message, to fit to different parts of a song played by a piano master class. Software even could transmit measuring probe data from the robot piano to the software via MIDI 1 to determine an

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:31:29 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >Being able to pitch change each note separately. Having many more CCs. >Just to name a few. Guitar to MIDI can make good use of it. I'm playing a Roland GR-55 guitar synth. It has got a MIDI input, but it does not recognize note numbers.

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Len Ovens
On Sun, 20 Jan 2019, Ralf Mattes wrote: In terms of velocity vs. amplitude I would guess that 127 levels at 1db per level covers more than most ADC's would show. At .5db per level the range is still probably wider than the dynamic range available in a nice quiet studio/sound stage... so I would

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Len Ovens
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019, Ralf Mattes wrote: Well, it all depends :-) I my world there's a group of users for whose field standard MIDI just does'nt work: teaching and researching professional piano playing. The main obstacle is (the missing) velocity/volume/attack speed resolution. So our

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) Len wrote: > While the 5pin din may be gone (not really, musicians like vintage > gear) i would not even denote the 5-pin DIN as "legacy" - it is still the de-facto standard by the fact that nothing else has replaced it within its niche (USB is a generic

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Will J Godfrey
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) Len Ovens wrote: >In fact MIDI 2 seems to be a thing mostly for non-kb instruments or computer >generated material (most of which is probably using CV instead of MIDI anyway). > >MIDI 1 was huge, My DX7 supported MIDI before the spec was complete. It is

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Len Ovens
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019, Will Godfrey wrote: I've just been told about this.

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread bill-auger
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:20:23 +0100 Ralf wrote: > So if your app works well with the current MIDI, you don't need to > migrate to MIDI 2.0. oh, how true that resonates i am just amazed at how many people are obsessed with novelty and would disagree with that (perfectly reasonable and accurate)

Re: [LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

2019-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:47:56 +, Will Godfrey wrote: >I've just been told about this.