MIDI 2.0 prototyping announced

Saga Musix · January 20, 2019, 13:08:43

The MMA announces MIDI 2.0 prototyping

It seems like quite a few long-standing issues with the MIDI standard will be addressed, including increased granularity of parameters and volume, and MIDI 2.0 will remain backwards-compatible with MIDI 1.0. This is exciting to hear, and will hopefully also find its way into OpenMPT once it's ready.

LPChip · January 21, 2019, 12:48:59

Oh that's some great news indeed.

Thanks for sharing.

Midori Mizuno · January 21, 2019, 15:08:51

That sure took them some time, didn't it haha

Saga Musix · January 22, 2019, 08:33:20

It's a sign for a good standard when it doesn't have to be replaced every other year.

ASIKWUSpulse · January 31, 2019, 17:49:35

Ooh, New MIDI protocol!

Wonder if they are implementing Note-Articulation - that's a really neat feature, since notes can then be in the same channels and have independent effects without affecting each other

ASIKWUSpulse · January 31, 2019, 18:03:32

Ooh, and MIDI 2.0 will use 1 port it seems? If so, that is sure a relief - no more bying a pair of 5-pin DIN-cables, just one.

Otherwise, this is exciting stuff.

Saga Musix · January 31, 2019, 18:19:04

I guess note articulation is more or less covered by the MPE "extension" already - but given that the new standard is not publicly available yet, I guess it makes little sense to speculate.

ASIKWUSpulse · February 02, 2019, 12:49:53

Well, it's an "extension" - I know how the MMA and AMEI has done with GM2 (they integrated some GS- and XG-Extension features (not by the fact that they are kindof the same expansions in different approaches though

)), I get the feeling of that they are of the "happy-integrating-some-expansions-in-future-main-specs" type.

That's my hypothesis otherwise.