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When I first got into MIDI programming, I really enjoyed discovering the manufacturer IDs in the System Exclusive message byte block: http://www.blitter.com/~r
by gdubs 14y ago
When I first got into MIDI programming, I really enjoyed discovering the manufacturer IDs in the System Exclusive message byte block:
http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/tech/midispec/id.htm http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/tech/midispec...
It's like a 1970's and 80's time-capsule.
- kolektiv 14y agoHaha, seconded. That list got expanded as well to allow for multiple byte (segment) IDs, and the expanded list still feels like a blast from the past! The only thing about MIDI is that the official standard doc is still only officially available as dead tree. While there's plenty of good (and sometimes better) treatments of it online, I wish they'd just catch up a little - I don't really want to send a cheque from the UK to Cali' for it! Of course, that's rather a digression - it's a surprisingly decent standard, and what it's enabled is startling. Well deserved, and congratulations to them!
- teeja 14y agoGreat to see this incredible, simple, elegant idea and OS example get well-deserved recognition. Plus there are few things more fun to code.