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

[Jason Proctor]

slight problem here is that ethernet, being a lossy broadband 
connection, is a completely different animal to lossless point to 
point connections such as USB or MIDI.

i'm sure that MI mfrs aren't that keen on including infrastructure 
within their products that can handle even a 10baseT data connection 
at full bore for anything isochronous.

ethernet would be a good way of communicating control stuff between 
hosts that will then part out the traffic to p2p devices via USB or 
MIDI. build the bandwidth handling into the routers, prioritise notes 
& clocks, thin out controller information as fanout capacity 
decreases. i notice that remote CPUs can be used as remote VST hosts 
and the control is usually via ethernet. ditto high-end control 
surfaces eg Digi Control-24 etc.

on a similar note... what happened to mLan? now Firewire *is* 
designed to transport large amounts of data around isochronously, 
hence its use in digital video cameras and stuff.

can we assume, that given that ethernet and Firewire have effectively 
not made any penetration into the MIDI & USB market, that high 
bandwidth broadband isn't regarded as necessary for control purposes?



>One time while at Yamaha for one of the two P.A.C.E. seminars I got to,  they
>had all of us in a rather large room,  with 3-4 people at each table,  and
>equipment on each table,  all wired together.  At one point during the
>proceedings they played it a bit.  It was rather impressive,  and not as flat
>as you might have expected.  I don't recall now what exactly the equipment
>was any more,  that had to be either '86 or '88 and they may even have been
>playing samples,  or something,  but it sounded pretty good.  (And must have
>taken them a _while_ to set up!  :-)
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