Its a 1982 spec. It was even a pretty decent spec -- in 1982. There are better specs, but they're proprietary. Yamaha has a cool thing called MLAN which is a superset of firewire that'll carry MIDI, timing, audio and power all over the same connection, but hey, guess what -- Yamaha owns it, and none of the other manufacturers really want to give power to them. Surprise.
A couple of other specs have been proposed and have all failed for similar reasons. Since MIDI is entrenched, nobody's going to release a product without it.
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-21 02:28 am (UTC)Why not universally adopted? Musicians are suckers, I think.
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Date: 2005-02-21 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-22 07:35 pm (UTC)A couple of other specs have been proposed and have all failed for similar reasons. Since MIDI is entrenched, nobody's going to release a product without it.