[sdiy] MIDI + Ethernet

[ASSI]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 20:50, Paul Higgins wrote:
> All the arguments over MIDI on s-DIY lately got me to thinking.  Has
> MIDI-over-Ethernet ever developed into anything substantial?  I

It has, in fact it is set to become an IEEE standard. You might want to 
search the Gibson web site for MaGIC, this should find the press 
releases and a few technical descriptions. I've set off a thread "ADDA 
& MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?" just over a year ago (I guess it should 
be archived somewhere) on that topic. My personal conclusion was that 
I'd just use the physical layer of Ethernet (mainly because the 
interface is standardized and the necessary chips can be had quite 
cheaply) and put an STM system on top of that. It needs to be 
self-configuring (which instrument gets to use which time-slot) so that 
you can change the setup live without worrying about configuration 
parameters and it needs endpoints for converting to legacy interfaces.


Achim.
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