Pro Sound Web: The MIDI standard is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, so let’s take a minute to appreciate just how cool an invention this really was.
For many of you reading this, you don’t remember a time before MIDI, but the rest of us remember it as a time when hardware synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines couldn’t talk to one another if not from the same manufacturer.
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I am sure that this is big news in the large scale music and sound recording world. Some of the advertised features of MIDI HD were the increased channel count and higher fidelity transmission and signal flow and more precise time stamp control. Just like in any aspect of the technology world, the needs of the industry are outpacing any technology that was invented. The MIDI upgrade situation reminds me of Bill Gates’ alleged comment “640k ought to be enough memory for anyone”. Whatever capacity machine or protocol was built 30 years ago, is no longer large enough for the scale of things that are happening now, I hope that they don’t screw up generational compatibilities with the new version. The thing that interests me the most is if the MSC protocols are getting updated with MIDI HD, or if it merely going to be backwards compatible with the MSC in MIDI Classic.
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