I'm feeling old.....

30 years is long enough.

It is time that the MIDI standards committee took a long and hard look at how things have changed in the 30 years since MIDI's inception.

The vast increase in what is being asked to squeeze down a single serial communication protocol demands that things like baud rates and word length change to match modern communication standards. It is time for MIDI 2.0 to become a reality, and backwards compatibility be a strong part of the standard.

I doubt it will happen Diki - no Dave Smith pushing it (one of the main reasons the original MIDI spec got off the ground!!), and I doubt Roland and Yamaha are interested in putting in the R+D they did back in the early to mid 80's. That is IF Roland and Yamaha are still talking to each other

Dennis

PS: I agree though - I WISH it would happen!!!

Hi

Despite the MIDI limits, without MIDI where would we have been?

How to control - or PROGRAM - our keyboards...? Huh

Jørgen

I agree with Diki and with Dennis. 30 years is long enough and MIDI 2.0 with backward compatability would be fantastic ... if any leading developer would apply enough pressure to get this to happen. It's not like computers could have sustained an 8 bit serial protocol for this long.

Yamaha, Korg and Roland really need to get together and get behind advancing MIDI.

Some information here

Bill

Just came across this. Interesting.
synthtopia

nice find be great to get MIDI transmission via ethernet.

The High Speed MIDI Protocol has been under discussion since 2006... Jeez! Even Congress works faster than that!

Time to get off their fat duffs and RATIFY IT...

If there was a big enough demand I am sure there would be motivation to crack on with the project. But I don't see enough people requiring anything more than the current standard.