[sdiy] MIDI over Ethernet (was Microchip DSP kit $60 > AVR32)

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 22 Mar 2008, at 15:00, Jim Patchell wrote:

> The new XMega AVR is also looking very promising.  It will have the  
> ability to do a lot of things in hardware ( DMA, Event Routing)  
> that will help a lot in increasing the amount of work the processor  
> can do...plus the 32MIPs processing speed.
>
> There are other free tools available for the AVR such as Ethernut.   
> It is a combination RTOS/TCP-IP Stack that works really nice.  I am  
> in the process of writing a server (running on Windoz) and client  
> (running on an Ethernut board) that will do MIDI over Ethernet.

Sounds interesting, Jim, but I've got to ask "Why?"
I thought everyone was moving from 'traditional' MIDI via the old DIN  
plugs to MIDI over USB? What's the advantage of ethernet as a  
connection, particularly if it's non-standard?

Please don't think I'm trying to knock it. I'd just like to  
understand your thinking.

Regards,
Tom