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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 fustakrakich on Saturday February 01 2020, @02:05AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday February 01 2020, @02:05AM (#952119) Journal

    And try playing piano music on a laptop's QWERTY keyboard.

    I can only picture that as a form of dystopia. Sounds totally bizarre that people pay to sit and watch that. On the other hand, I hear people pay to watch people play video games, but at least that has betting potential.

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