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MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com)

Posted by msmash on from the marching-forward dept.

MIDI was introduced at the 1983 NAMM show as a means to connect various electronic instruments together. Since then, our favorite five-pin DIN has been stuffed into Radio Shack keyboards, MPCs, synths, eurorack modules, and DAWs. The standard basically hasn't changed. Now, ahead of the 2019 NAMM show, the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) in conjunction with AMEI, Japan's MIDI Association, are announcing MIDI 2.0. From a report: The new features include, "auto-configuration, new DAW/web integrations, extended resolution, increased expressiveness, and tighter timing." It will retain backwards-compatibility with MIDI 1.0 devices. The new initiative, like the release of the first MIDI spec, is a joint venture between manufacturers of musical instruments. The company lineup on this press release is as follows: Ableton/Cycling '74, Art+Logic, Bome Software, Google, imitone, Native Instruments, Roland, ROLI, Steinberg, TouchKeys, and Yamaha.

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  1. Re:About time! by aitikin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Midi is used by content creators. The music industry tries not to fuck with them. It's consumers that the music industry is waging a war with.

    Secondly midi is used by professionals. Equipment manufacturers try hard not to fuck with them either and keep to the same standard for a very long time to keep customer loyalty. Like Canon who kept with the same lens mount and memory card standard for a decades, they dont change plugs and ports very often at all. The only outlier I see in this is Apple.

    As someone who works in the professional music industry, manufacturers have no problem fucking with creators. The connections for MIDI have changed (more often than not, you'll see USB MIDI instead of traditional MIDI DINs), but the underlying protocol hasn't changed at all.

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  2. Re:About time! by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where'd the idea come from that "if it's old, it must suck"?

    If it's lasted this long, obviously it's working fine. Too many working techs get "updated" for no reason other than to satisfy the egos of the people who get to put a new bullet point on their resumes.

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  3. Re:Mice, keyboards, ASCII/utf8. Anyone want midi c by goose-incarnated · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ASCII is still king - over 95% of web pages are ASCII.

    Wrong. Even back in 2012, 60% of the web crawled by Google was Unicode. That figure would have only gone up since.

    https://googleblog.blogspot.co...

    Slashdot is in a tiny minority of ASCII-only websites.

    You've confused "ascii" with "ansi" and confused "unicode" with "utf8".

    That's pretty damn impressive considering you only wrote three sentences.

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