[sdiy] Handling MIDI Running Status from Power-up

[Pete Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 1:57 PM Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:

>
> On 14 Nov 2019, at 18:37, Next Expanse <nextexpanse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The right way to solve this would be to have a bidirectional protocol,
> some sort of way for the receiver to detect when it’s been disconnected,
> and to have a way for the module to query the controller’s state. Nothing
> else will fix the problem, so unless there are some serious changes, we
> have to live with it.
>
>
> The “right way” depends on the technology, and a bidirectional protocol
> would have been much too much overhead at the time MIDI was invented.
> Instead they did something simpler and it actually worked the vast majority
> of the time. Ok, there were “stuck note” problems, but everyone soon worked
> out how to fix that, and MIDI input devices started providing "MIDI Panic”
> functions that killed everything in an emergency.
>
> The fact that we’re still here thirty+ years later discussing it shows
> exactly how much of a success it was. I can’t think of any other
> consumer/professional technology standard that’s lasted as long aside from
> the 1/4” jack!
>

TCP/IP/Ethernet

Ethernet itself was created in 1973, and the TCP/IP stack was created by
DARPA to make use of it.  The physical medium has changed a lot over the
years, and the protocol extended to handle ever faster speeds, but at it's
core it's the same thing.

:-D
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