MIDI is still an amazingly simple, yet useful encoding. To think its been around since 1982 is astounding. I'm excited to see what MIDI 2.0 really brings and if

MIDI is still an amazingly simple, yet useful encoding. To think its been around since 1982 is astounding. I'm excited to see what MIDI 2.0 really brings and if its truly worth the added complexity. The 1.0 encoding is incredibly simple and to have gone 40 years (and still going), with many many devices being compatible with the protocol, is something that should absolutely be celebrated. Here's to 2.0 being just as long lived and successful, presuming its just as simple but expands on the field sizes, timing improvements, and flexibility in terms of non-western music as it seems to promise.