Re: Midi2 handling of SysEx data

"Matthijs Hollemans" <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:37:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.midi
Organization All Your Software
Message-ID <02cc01c3e8c8$98fa0050$2101a8c0@sputnik>
Martijn wrote:

> There aren't that many midi2 applications and many of those that
> exist probably can be adapted.

True.

> The midi2 kit has quite a few bugs and features IIRC and I think they
> should be fixed;

Most of these bugs have been fixed (at least the ones I found). Some
"features" are simply bad design decisions and they can't be easily fixed
without an extensive rewrite.

> there was never any documentation anyway...

There is now :-)

> I doubt if even binary compatibility is that important...

It is the goal of OpenBeOS R1, that's why it is important.

However, I agree that the Midi Kit is not as good as it could be. That's =
why
I'd like to encourage anyone who has an interest in BeOS and MIDI to thin=
k
about designing a new kit :-) Like I said in my post to Christian, there =
is
no reason why one can't write a replacement.

-Matthijs