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I was just listening to the midi 2.0 webminar from the midi association, and as I understood there are some free sysex and ci id for non profits / hobbists, but
by dmoreno 7y ago
I was just listening to the midi 2.0 webminar from the midi association, and as I understood there are some free sysex and ci id for non profits / hobbists, but if you make money out of it you should register. I guess mainly to prevent ID collisions.
- mrob 7y agoIt's pure money grabbing. They could just as well avoid collisions by specifying a UUID for the SysEx ID, and then everybody could generate their own independently.
- dmoreno 7y agoI guess you can use the free IDs, and then place the uuid in the stream or packet. Everybody happy.
- jobigoud 7y agoIn the USB case that simply translates to rogue VID/PID by vendors that don't want to pay the fee.
- holy_city 7y agoSteinberg tried the same thing with VST (2, not 3). No one uses (relies on) it. At the end of the day specs are only as good as adoption. If there is a reliable workaround (or even easier way to do things) than using the UUID then people will do that instead.