I'm fairly confident that MIDI 2.0 is already dead. I really don't like to say that. It was designed by a large industrial committee, in secret, with no trans

I'm fairly confident that MIDI 2.0 is already dead. I really don't like to say that. It was designed by a large industrial committee, in secret, with no transparency and no input from other interested parties. The opposite of MIDI 1.0. And it just stinks of it. It is overwrought by a long shot, with many bells and whistles nobody is asking for (there's a very specific, and frankly short, list of critical MIDI failings). It has no reference examples and will be awful to implement and to deploy over various transports. When it came out it went over like a lead balloon: nobody seems to want to implement it.