> I am curious - has there been any move to modernize the MIDI > connectivity standards to include USB or Ethernet? There has been - there is a midi over usb standard. Midi is a poor starting point for modernisation not just beacause of the pragmatic compromises mentioned above but also because it is wholly unlayered (the spec covers everything from the physical up to the presentational layer), and has it's expansion room squeezed into the SysEx ghetto. Midi over ethernet would be even less pleasant, and less logical, than doing RS-232 over ethernet. OSC has fixed these problems and should have been built into everything since the mid-90s but so many people have invested time in learning MIDI that they wouldn't countenance working with anything else. It looks like RESTful web services may eventually replace both, however. -- steev http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
