On 10/17/2006 at 2:44 PM David Griffith wrote:
Wired midi is a balanced current loop running at
19.2kbps. For obvious
reasons, low latency is extremely important and noise is intolerable.
These two are big reasons why wireless implementations are expensive.
Unbeknownst to me (and probably a lot of other people), there's been an
IEEE working group for MIDI-over-ethernet:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030625013841/www.plus24.com/ieee1639/
The industry
midi.org seems to be at best, lukewarm about the whole affair:
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/ethernet.shtml
Maybe I'll wait a few more years...
Cheers,
Chuck