Have I mentioned lately...

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Have I mentioned lately how much I hate MIDI?

So.

Much.

Hate.

Comments

[harlequinskiss.livejournal.com]

but how do you really feel?

[hexagonalcarbon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's pretty dumb and archaic. Why hasn't something better been invented and universally adopted?

[vaxjo.livejournal.com]

Something better has been invented (OSC, I think, but I don't know what that really is).

Why not universally adopted? Musicians are suckers, I think.

[magicmarmot.livejournal.com]

Ding-dang-doodle, I've designed MIDI hardware, written software for MTC and Midi Show Control... there are worse things.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

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.