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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mth on Saturday February 01 2020, @01:53AM (1 child)
I think they realized that people aren't going to use MIDI 2.0 over serial cables, but over for example USB or ethernet instead. Which means that MIDI messages will have to be wrapped in packets anyway.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday February 04 2020, @12:42PM
BTW
Old MIDI 5 pole DIN connector: cheap repairable and just works
USB connector: good luck, slow to reconnect in case something goes wrong, flimsy, let's not even go into the mini/micro ones. Maybe USB C. Maybe.
Ethernet: LOL by live n. 3 you will scour the web for industrial RJ45 or for adhesive to keep them connectors in place. They already give problems in vibration-less, static, office setups.
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