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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 01 2020, @02:38AM
Will MIDI 2.0 allow you to do things along the lines of OSC, where you can tell a device:
"at timestamp 12345, start the following notes in unison"
Will MIDI 2.0 consider notes as entities, rather than events? MPE is still a bad hack.
There are other, less obvious things that it doesn't seem to do, but aside from the higher resolution thing, I see little to like. CI is a waste of time and brainspace. Now, instead of reading a chart and setting my configuration, I get to pray that the system will automagically know what I want (spoiler alert: it won't) and probably fight it tooth and nail on stage just to get the desired results.
The wrong fucking solutions to the wrong fucking problems, every single fucking time ... it's enough to make me want to go all CV/gate.