Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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) PS: Even if we reduce MIDI to one channel for real-time playing without usage of e.g. the nose as an eleventh finger, at least usage of pedals is included. The amount of

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:49:48 -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: >to sidestep all of the well-known MIDI limitations Without doubts MIDI has got well-known limitations, but nowadays a bad implementation of the MIDI standard often gets confused with the MIDI standard, so it's better to clearly point

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
[Active Sensing] You said that you "need lossless JACK MIDI networking", but not why you need networking at all. You might have a good reason, I'm just curious. For what purpose do you need an _additional_ network? Btw. I have no experiences with MIDI over an additional network, but regarding the

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Paul Davis
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Len Ovens wrote: [ etc. etc. etc. ] i wonder if sctp (the transport protocol used for web sockets) might be better for this sort of thing than either tcp or udp or raw ip ... ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Len Ovens
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: In general I too am attracted to UDP -- but for MIDI performance transmission, 0.001% loss is still far too much, because that means one note in 1,000 might be held and never released, causing massive encruditation to the moment :-) This is because

Re: [LAD] MIDI-2-TCP, TCP-2-MIDI

2018-09-01 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
In general I too am attracted to UDP -- but for MIDI performance transmission, 0.001% loss is still far too much, because that means one note in 1,000 might be held and never released, causing massive encruditation to the moment :-) This is because every time I press a key there's a MIDI signal fo