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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, @08:37PM
When you are using MIDI in a larger venue, latency is a huge issue. Different length wires, daisy chaining, and the limited transfer speeds all make a difference. Sure, a single guy playing into a single controller feeding into a single synthesizer into a single amp assembly isn't going to notice. However, the professionals in big venues have to factor in the different timing from the speed of sound from speaker sets getting feed at different times from different amps, getting fed from different synthesizers, getting fed by different instruments that get their signals at different times due to limits of the protocol having to message one thing at a time. And that is just the stuff on the surface.