> As long as it's 100% backwards compatible, including the 5-pin DIN connectors, I'd be on board. No 5-pin, no game. According to the specs which can be downlo

> As long as it's 100% backwards compatible, including the 5-pin DIN connectors, I'd be on board. No 5-pin, no game. According to the specs which can be downloaded from midi.org there is no 5 pin DIN socket or 31kbit/s current loop anymore; the new Midi instead uses Ethernet and Wifi to connect "instruments". Apparently the protocol runs on UDP. > As for latency, jitter, granularity ... Well, maybe I play too fast or too many notes in a chord, but it happens quite often that I get an arpeggio instead of a chord.