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posted by martyb on Friday January 31 2020, @10:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the boop-be-doop-de-boop dept.

MIDI, a standard for digital music since 1981, has been updated to MIDI 2.0. New MIDI 2.0 is not dependent on any particular hardware implementation such as USB or Ethernet. Some of the main goals of the new protocol are to provide higher resolution, more channels, and improved performance and expressiveness. Another change is a move from a byte stream to data packets.

MIDI 2.0 is designed to "deliver an unprecedented level of nuanced musical and artistic expressiveness," and leans on three key design decisions to do so. Firstly its new 32-bit resolution makes for smoother, continuous, analogue feel - if you want that. Controllers will be easy to use and there will be more of them. Lastly major timing advances are present in the standard.

Also at the MIDI Association's press release, Details about MIDI 2.0™, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange.


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 31 2020, @10:49PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 31 2020, @10:49PM (#952021) Homepage

    According to TFA MIDI 2 is backwards-compatible, and it goddamn better be. Some things, such as the original MIDI standard, stood up to time because they were too good to be fucked with.