MIDI 2.0 support

[LD]

Roland beat Google to MIDI 2.0, bit there is still room to be a viable contender. What aspects of MIDI 2.0 resonate the best with mobile? What APIs should be high priority? What aspects of MIDI 2.0 don't fit so well on mobile, if any? When will we see it on Android?

[Phil Burk]

> Roland beat Google to MIDI 2.0, bit there is still room to be a viable contender. 

Google is a member of the MMA. I have been working on MIDI 2.0, along with other MMA companies, for about 12 years. So I was very glad to see Roland embrace MIDI 2.0. There was a public demo at NAMM that showed products from Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Apple and Microsoft all interoperating with MIDI 2.0 prototype code.  I think we will see a lot of MIDI 2.0 products come out this year.

> What aspects of MIDI 2.0 resonate the best with mobile? 

I think mobile devices will make great controllers for MIDI synths. The multi-touch screens are well suited for per-note control.

> What APIs should be high priority? 

We need APIs for Capabilities Inquiry, which is tricky. And APIs for building and parsing packets. That can probably be built above the OS.

> What aspects of MIDI 2.0 don't fit so well on mobile, if any?

We need new USB/ALSA drivers for MIDI 2.0. The spec is still being worked on.

> When will we see it on Android?

You can probably use MIDI 2.0 between two Android apps as soon as the spec is released. CI should work fine. You can probably send 2.0 packets because the MIDI API just passes the bytes untouched. You will need to serialize and deserialize the packets into bytes. But you will need to write that code. I cannot predict when or if Android/Google will release MIDI 2.0 support.

Phil Burk

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 2:26 PM LD <core...@gmail.com> wrote:

Roland beat Google to MIDI 2.0, bit there is still room to be a viable contender. What aspects of MIDI 2.0 resonate the best with mobile? What APIs should be high priority? What aspects of MIDI 2.0 don't fit so well on mobile, if any? When will we see it on Android?

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[Lee T. Davy]

New USB Class compliance information to help Android Midi V2.0 implementation.