On Friday 31 August 2007 23:52:33 david wrote: > thomas fisher wrote: > > On Friday 31 August 2007 01:09:07 david wrote: > >> Steve McConville wrote: > >>>> 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), > >> > >> That could be separated fairly easily, I'd think. > >> > >>> and has it's expansion room squeezed into > >>> the SysEx ghetto. > >> > >> That's a big problem. > >> > >>> Midi over ethernet would be even less pleasant, and > >>> less logical, than doing RS-232 over ethernet. > >> > >> Only reason I mentioned Ethernet is that there are analog musical > >> instruments around already that can transmit their audio via Ethernet > >> (instead of analog audio cables). > >> > >>> 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. > >> > >> I suspect that MIDI won't be budged. It is a standard in the music > >> world, and I doubt that many musicians care about it's limitations. They > >> may not even be aware of them. MIDI certainly keeps time in a lot finer > >> increments than I'm able to play - that's why sequencer programs have > >> quantization functions! > > > > How does the " XG " extension play into this? How proprietary is it? > > I don't know - and each week I play a Yahama PSR-740 keyboard with > Yamaha's XG. I've recorded some MIDIs using it, and they open just fine > in Rosegarden and play in fluidsynth. Or maybe you're talking about > something else? I do not know either, and was asking in the context of the MIDI discussion. I have always assumed that XG was an extension to the standard MIDI specification. And again I always assumed that an interpretative function existed somewhere in software layers either within a driver or in a filter. As with your Yamaha PSR-740 XG are all functions / prsets & ?? interpreted by the Linux MIDI? I am only guessing how all of this works. Tom _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
