MIDI

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 20:30:48 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:04, jdow wrote:

> For what it is worth the state of MIDI on 'ix is one of the chief
> reasons I do not do more of my professional development on an 'ix
> operating system. Microsoft MIDI is bad enough. But 'ixish MIDI
> is sickening to work with the last times I tried. Good luck.
> 
> {o.o}   <- needs MIDI with sub-millisecond accuracy for some things.
>         SMF files can't do that. But the software we have can. Even
>         millisecond accuracy on ix machines has been "amusing" to
>         try to get. Making arpeggios work right is bad enough. But
>         MIDI Show Control and MIDI Machine Control sometimes needs
>         that 1 ms or finer timing accuracy to make effects work right.

Does OS X qualify as 'ix in this respect or have they they
made it usable for professional work?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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