Midi 2 adds some much-needed features (per-note pitch bend, for instance), but what I expect to happen is that the major manufacturers are going to only impleme

Midi 2 adds some much-needed features (per-note pitch bend, for instance), but what I expect to happen is that the major manufacturers are going to only implement the parts they care about. I'd kind of like to see MIDI replaced outright with something built on a somewhat different (less piano-centric) abstraction; something more voice-oriented rather than note-oriented. Instead of having some number of fixed pitch notes that you turn on and off and settings that apply to all notes, you have voices that you can control independently (set volume, filter cutoff, control the envelope, disable and enable, and so on). You can do that now with the one-note-per-channel trick or MPE if it's supported, but it's kind of kludgy and only works with synths that are multitimbral to begin with.