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From: nange@eb4ts2.EBay.Sun.COM (John Giannangeli)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music
Subject: Re: MIDI protocol and ISDN network
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:41:14 GMT
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>>> [...]   Sooooo, does anyone have any info on how
>>>MIDI and ISDN may someday work together?  How does ISDN accomodate MIDI?
>> [...]
>> The MIDI standard is a 2 layer specifation: The physical transmission, and the
>> data protocol itself.
>> 
>> As far as ISDN, OSI, TCP/IP, SNA, and other communication protocols suites are
>> concerned, the MIDI data protocol is "just another application protocol" - ie,
>> ISDN et al will treat the MIDI messages as data. [...]
>As a user of both ISDN and MIDI, I seriously doubt that anyone will
>ever implement a network interface product to connect them.
>
>Tom Roberts
>att!ihlpl!tjrob

	Oh Contraire!!

		As a user of MIDI and networking, I can see an application for
	such a beast. But instead, lets use Ethernet and MIDI as an example.
	Say you're Steven Spielberg and you have a gazillion dollars to buy
	a Sun 4/490 server and a bunch of SLC's or IPC's. Your server stores
	samples (MIDI standard sample dump format) and standard sequences
	for video post production (sequence of footsteps walking down street,
	applause, auto racing, other standard movie sound effects, etc.)
	Your SLC's are located in several different audio for film or video
	studios working on completely different projects, but with the need
	to access the same MIDI sample standards, and sequences. Ethernet is
	not a real time protocol either, but the need is to network the
	information, not distribute it in real time. Same applies for ISDN.
	You could concievably retrieve sequences or samples from your L.A.
	studio via the telephone lines to New York. 
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