Re: mLan and MacOS X
Re: mLan and MacOS X
- Subject: Re: mLan and MacOS X
- From: Michael Ashton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:29 -0700
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 12:37 PM, Airy Andri wrote:
From what I understand of what is mLan, mLan is just a software
protocol over Firewire.
I see no reason why two Mac using only one Firewire cable and nice
CoreAudio/CoreMidi drivers could
not exchange MIDI and Audio from any application, as if the other
computer was a standard Audio/Midi device.
That what looks great in mLan.
Just like "VST Link" but much better and much more standard...
But maybe I am completely wrong.
I don't think so.
The good thing about mLAN is that it isn't completely proprietary,
despite what Yamaha wants you to think (darn that Japanese habit of
keeping everything a big secret!). It's kind of a bundle of existing
standards - especially the Audio and Music Protocol, which you can
download from the MMA's web site.
The proprietary part of mLAN, about which I have been able to learn
very little, seems to revolve around a setup protocol which is, among
other things, used to assign resources to FireWire isochronous
channels. I have a theory, as yet untested, that you can still talk to
mLAN devices even if you don't talk this protocol.
Of course, the best thing about mLAN is that it's a standard protocol
for everybody to agree on, like MIDI; and this means you only need to
make one driver for it, and then if your driver works, you can talk to
everybody else. Now, why Yamaha didn't publish this like MIDI, and let
everybody use it without hassle, remains one of life's great unanswered
questions ...
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Michael Ashton <email@hidden>
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