Re: [LAD] making sense of Jack MIDI; or, is this an appropriate use for Jack?

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Sat Feb 16 2013 - 21:31:15 EET

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:13:33 +0100, Paul Davis
<paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> There are other use cases for MIDI that don't involve soft synths, or
> even don't involve music at all. What I find laughable is the arrogance
> of pretending that everybody fits a single use case.

I didn't follow this thread, I randomly read this. While MIDI can be used
as an interface for non-music-things, jackd is an application for music
usage. There are many issues with MIDI and I hope coders for music
applications focus to optimize music application's MIDI for music usage
and nothing else.

If you like to use MIDI as a serial interface for something else, then I
won't call it MIDI, but RS foo. You for sure won't take care about the
MIDI protocol, e.g. running status, active sensing, _normal_ data vs SysEx
etc., pp., but this is MIDI for and music software can't take care about
other serial interface use cases.
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