Re: [LAD] JACK & MIDI

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:07:26PM +0100, Albert Graef wrote:

> Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > Seriously, there are three things that I profoundly dislike in MIDI.
> >
> > 1. The limited precision of almost all values, 7 bits or 14 with a
> > kludge (but even this kludge is not available in any standard
> > way for e.g. individual note frequencies).
>
> Agreed. The MIDI Tuning Standard (MTS) was invented to fix that, but it
> doesn't really help with the "12 notes per octave" limitation and, being
> sysex, isn't really realtime, so it wouldn't be suitable to tune Aeolus
> on the fly anyway.

The limits I referred to don't affect Aeolus, except that there's
no MIDI concept of 'stops' or anything near to it.

They affect anyone who wants to use sequencing tools and/or soft synths,
while not being limited by MIDI's 'culturally challenged' idea what music
is or could be.

Retuning Aeolus is very non-real-time operation anyway, and currently
Aeolus doesn't accept MTS.

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FA
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Parma, Italia
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