Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Footnotes:
(1) I googled Yamaha LAN and found some forum stuff with people having issues with it.
(2) About 3 or 4 years ago, I ran a test of midi-over-internet where I payed a softsynth of a chat buddy in NL (IIRC). He echoed the midi data back to me which I recorded and determined the round trip latency. I think it was about 600ms.
(3) What prompted the experiment (where's the Youtube clip?) were some very successful tests (no noticeable latency) I had done controlling gear hooked up to one computer from a controller hooked up to another computer across the room but via a router. (Of course, I was using 8-bit midi.)

So, thanks for the offer to forget midi, but I am a dinosaur myself and I like dinosaur gear.

Oh, yeah, even as a dinosaur, I stick by my claim of looking towards future possibilities. Always did; always will. I did that when I was in my teens, too--when I envisioned controlling a synth (Moog modular) with a computer. It was unheard of back then. In fact, one of my professors told me, "What a waste of a computer!" Needless to say, I should have told him "Bullshit," and tried to find a professor or a program that had the ability to envision future possibilities.

Again, I try my best to help people with issues they have. Those efforts are future-solution oriented. I envision possibilities. But I do so mindful of the past. 

I am not sure who said, "the past informs the present to ideally improve the future," but I think there is merit in that approach--whether it be on a small-scale, near-term problem-solution or a large-scale, long-term one.

I see no problem with integrating the old with the new with an eye towards the future. 

Steve

PS: When I first read and responded to your reply to my comment about the future, I did not see any arrogance, agism, or sarcasm whatsoever. I usually don't pick up on stuff like that even when it is there. In fact, it didn't even occur to me you might be doing that until sometime after I had innocently started penning the footnotes by way of simple clarification. However, in retrospect, your tone seems clear--everything you wrote was a reply to my comment that "I try to look at future possibilities."

It seems that your lead in, "Then maybe better forget about MIDI after all," was a retort, a challenge.

Of course, it is hard to tell attitude in printed text messages posted on a forum. So, if you weren't being sarcastic and arrogant, I happily withdraw the suggestion that it might have been.

steve_the_visionary_dinosaur  ;)
  

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Forró <dan.for@...> wrote:
>
> Then maybe better forget about MIDI at all. It's a 30 years old  
> standard, difficult if not impossible to improve.
> 
> Even now some instruments (and numbers go up quickly) use USB for MIDI  
> communication with computer.
> 
> Then there is Yamaha LAN...
> 
> And maybe other new standards will come.
> 
> Daniel Forro
> 
> On 22 Aug, 2013, at 10:01 PM, steve_the_composer wrote:
> 
> > I try to look at future possibilities.
> >
> > Steve
>