Re-animated
Last year, I posted here about an animation control framework called ‘Friz’ that works within the JUCE Application Framework.
As I said in that post:
MIDI 2.0 Specs Released!
After over a decade of work, the final specification documents for MIDI 2.0 have been released to the public!
There’s a fantastic article on the MIDI.org site that explains what the hubbub is all about that I’ll just point you at rather than rewriting — check it here: Details about MIDI 2.0
When MIDI 1.0 was released in 1983, the complete document that detailed all you needed to know about it was eight pages long. Expect to need to read a bit more than that in 2020—the full spec for MIDI 2.0 is five separate documents, each looking at a single part of the system:
M2-100: Overview of the specifications
M2-101: Specification of MIDI-CI, the Capability Inquiry portion of MIDI 2 that’s required to enable devices to query each other and determine how two devices can work together.
M2-102: Common Rules for MIDI-CI Profiles explains how to define and work with MIDI 2 profiles to define controllers and other configuration data to permit devices to automatically adapt to the capabilities present in the currently connected instruments.
M2-103: Rules for Property Exchange, the new provisions for querying current settings and capabilites of connected devices
M2-104: Definition of the new Universal MIDI Packet data structure and the high-resolution MIDI 2 message protocol.
Before you can access these documents, you’ll need to create a (free!) account with The MIDI Association, which is an organization of MIDI users. If you’re not already a member, the link to access the docs will redirect you first to the login/account creation page.
Download everything here and then go make cool stuff with it.
MIDI 2.0 Adopted at Winter NAMM 2020
At the recent Winter NAMM convention in Anaheim California, the MIDI Manufacturers Association voted to formally adopt the MIDI 2.0 specification that’s been in development for over a decade. Art+Logic has been involved with this effort for the past several years as part of the group of companies working to validate MIDI 2.0 during its development and refinement by creating prototype implementations of it and connecting those prototypes together to make sure that things perform as well in reality as they do on paper.
Art+Logic at ADC
Next week (18-20 November) I’ll be attending the annual Audio Developer Conference in London. On Tuesday November 19th at 16:00 I’ll be part of a team providing the first public details about the forthcoming MIDI 2.0 standard.
The ADC is usually live-streamed on YouTube as it happens, an unfortunate series of events have endangered that this year — you can learn more about that and consider contributing to the fund that will pay for the recording and livestreaming of conference sessions—I frequently return to the archived videos and point other developers to them for reference.
Check the JUCE YouTube channel for the streams during the event (and come back later for archived recordings, or watch sessions from earlier years).
The full schedule for the event is here.
If you’re attending the event, please do track me down and say ‘hey’.
Art+Logic In the Real World
There are a few events coming up in the next few weeks where A+L will have people in attendance. If you’re going to be there or nearby, please get in touch and we’ll meet up.
