Yeah, I think you're describing a very common experience for developers hoping to work with MIDI. "Hey, a standardized format! How hard can it be? Oh . . ."

Yeah, I think you're describing a very common experience for developers hoping to work with MIDI. "Hey, a standardized format! How hard can it be? Oh . . ." Even without achieving all the things outlined above, just clearing away ambiguity in the spec would be a huge leap forward.