[sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?

[Gene Stopp]

Me too! 100M Ethernet is pretty damn fast in an uncongested point-to-point
local link. And soon will be the day that you won't be able to buy anything
that doesn't go 100M/full duplex. Rid of 10M and collisions, this just may
work. Even through layer 2 store and forward switches, uncongested latencies
can be as low as 14-15 microseconds with 64-byte frames. Throw in RTP encaps
and you might get it to work over WAN links.

<Gaaak choke sputter blap> uh, sorry, fell into the workspeak trap... for
some reason I dread the idea of mixing work and hobby, for fear that I'll
grow tired of my hobbies.

Oh Magnus, where are you? Surely you will chime in about this!!!


- Gene



-----Original Message-----
From: Speth, John [mailto:John.Speth at coherentinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:54 PM
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: RE: [sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?


> I just find that MIDI over Ethernet is set to become an IEEE 
> standard. 
> Just MIDI, not audio and AFAICT no provisions for synchronizing with 
> any (unknown) audio over ethernet transport.

I'm dying to see how they get realtime throughput on a network.  Will they
be addressing that problem in the spec or will they just recommend closed or
small networks?

John Speth
Coherent Molectron
mailto:john.speth at coherentinc.com