Re: [LAD] [Jack-Devel] JACK & MIDI

From: Albert Graef <Dr.Graef@email-addr-hidden-online.de>
Date: Sat Jan 19 2008 - 06:09:04 EET

Julien Claassen wrote:
> And about the two APIs: why not? If you think about it thorroughly I'm sure
> one can come up with a protocol, of which MIDI is a subset. Thus some
> interaction between to apps (one using MIDI, one using the new thing) could be
> possible.

The entire keyboard/synth industry has been trying to do that for a
decade now, and only now it's beginning to take shape (MIDI 2.0).
There's just so much cruft in MIDI 1.0 that it's hard to extend it
without breaking it.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr.Graef@email-addr-hidden-online.de, ag@email-addr-hidden-mainz.de
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