On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:00:07 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >MIDI was designed to handle in realtime (10 events from 10 fingers)
That is incorrect, MIDI was designed for sequencer usage, too, so MIDI provides 16 channels ;). While I only can play 6 channels in real-time using my guitar synth, even my C64 and Atari ST could play 16 channels and more (btw. with way less MIDI jitter than any Linux PC can do). Depending on the usage, we can _not_ use one MIDI connection (one MIDI cable) for all 16 channels, but sometimes it works, let alone that from the beginning MIDI also was desgined for usage with several MIDI IOs, IOW for usage with x * 16 channels. Btw. regarding some data, e.g. pitch bend messages, not only my guitar synth allows to send "reduced" MIDI data. From keyboards we e.g. know that after touch often isn't used, but send. MIDI sometimes require thinking about the setup, to avoid issues, this is even true for an anlog audio setup or synth connected by a CV/gate "network". MIDI still requires to think about what we want to achieve. The MIDI standard isn't made to fit the needs of braindead consumers. If we think a little bit, we even could use SysEx non-real-time MIDI data in real-time, without experiencing any problem. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
