[sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?

[Neil Johnson]

> I just find that MIDI over Ethernet is set to become an IEEE standard.

Oh great, YAS syndrome strikes again (Yet Another Standard).  So now we
have MIDI over MIDI, MIDI over IEEE-1394 (FireWire), MIDI over Ethernet,
and MIDI over IEEE 802.11.

I'm waiting for MIDI over carrier pigeon (and I'm not joking...they've
already got Ethernet over carrier pigeon, and they've even managed a PING
so far, turn around time 3 hours):

	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1321176.stm

As John says, it'll be interesting to see how they graft the desired QOS
on top of TCP/IP.

Mind you, people have been doing this for some time now, with their own
adhoc lauer on top of TCP/IP.  At least, by standardising the method, it
should encourage a broader sharing of MIDI jamming across multiple
platforms and applications.

Cheers,
Neil

(happy at having got his Epson printer working in OSX)

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