[sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Speth, John" <John.Speth at coherentinc.com>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:53:34 -0700

> > 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?

They do as always and *ASSUME* it works since Ethernet can carry MIDI too :-P

This is sad thing is just how clueless people can get after somebody showed a
few flashy presentations and sung a few "patriotic" songs of the "right" beleif
(we are into networking religion and politics and not their "real world"
variants). Then something is "wrong" and they go and reinvent the whole world
a few times and just end up being much more expensive, less general, providing
worse service than a properly engineered solution. Sigh.

Now, back to the original programming.

Since packet-based stuff is so badly engineered in relation to real-time
traffic you *MUST* run them essentially empty in order for the real-time
traffic not to experience to gross delays. Loss of a single real-time traffic
packet is a catastroph and you might as well give up after that since you no
longer is able to do anything usefull.

Cheers,
Magnus - keeps things of packet oriented whenever possible - except email ;O)