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The State of Network MIDI
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoI'm curious, what is used, hardware-wise, for Network MIDI? Does network MIDI use a separate physical layer, separate from other network traffic? Or is layer-2 or -3 QoS used? At work, our largest cluster uses Ethernet for front-end traffic, but uses Infiniband for back-end storage traffic (Lustre). I wonder if studios etc. have looked at Infiniband for Network MIDI traffic. The low latency of Infiniband might be helpful! And (as I understand it) since MIDI is fairly low-bandwidth, older Infiniband technologies (like DDR) could be used, to save money.
- dmoreno 7y agoFor RTP MIDI, UDP is used. So anything that can transport UDP. Simple Ethernet is more than good enough... but of course the lower the latency, the better.
- mclaren-tom 7y agoThat's right. But many studios will have a separate Ethernet network for MIDI traffic different from the internet and file transfer traffic in the studio.
- mclaren-tom 7y agoarticle author here, ask me anything :-)