"Robust Session Management" has now been replaced with something much
better:
http://lsn.ponderworthy.com/doku.php/concurrent_patch_management
All patches are now kept running all the time, are switched by MIDI
channel from the MIDI controller, and can be played simultaneously.
...
Although I am not much of a musician, and have only played with midi on a
much older machine, I have to say that this is the first truly new
approach to the patch switching problem to come down the pike since I
gave
midi up quite some time ago. Very creative in my old broadcast engineers
technical view.
Thanks, Gene!
We seriously need a MIDI-2 standard that addresses this. A pure glass
fiber jumper cable could easily do the 16 byte command word, and do it
with megaword/second speeds, in addition to being the perfect on stage
humm isolator that plagues the analog copper cabling (that can give you a
lethal shock if not wired correctly) way too often.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
I think the strongest effort to replace MIDI-1, is OSC. OSC-over-Ethernet
seems the common transport, and it doesn't seem to have a maximum transport
speed or rigid timing like MIDI does. There is an HD-MIDI out there but it
still appears to be mostly in the process of seeking to be used. But just
now I was not able to find a single 88-key weighted controller with OSC.
Hopefully in the near future.
J.E.B.
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