Re: mLan and MacOS X
Re: mLan and MacOS X
- Subject: Re: mLan and MacOS X
- From: Michael Ashton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:43:28 -0700
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:38 PM, Herbie Robinson wrote:
At 11:44 AM -0700 11/21/02, Michael Ashton wrote:
Just remember: if we don't get FireWire going for pro audio, USB will
take over the world.* And _we don't want that_. (Well, at least I
don't.)
While Yamaha has been so busy keeping things under wraps (and staying
a generation behind all the other Firewire chips at the same time),
the Internet standards committees have been quietly defining real time
transport over switched Ethernet. If you dig out John Lazzaro's posts
about MIDI over Ethernet,
I will.
you will find references to the standards involved. And those people
are working on feed forward error recovery schemes when the Firewire
camps hasn't even got a clue that they are a requirement.
The reality is that the various players (and it isn't just Yamaha,
there are other guilty parties)
Oh yes .. Yamaha got my ire because, well, their head is highest at the
moment ;)
have spun in circles for so long trying to carve out proprietary
niches that a seemingly much less appropriate technology is probably
within 6 months to a year of leaving Firewire in the dust.
Hmmmmmmmmm!
Now _that_ is interesting.
I've always discounted Ethernet as a solution for MIDI transport, due
to its stochastic nature. But given a big enough pipe ...
I'll have to look in to this. Thanks for bringing it up.
I still like FireWire though - even if it doesn't win. But as every
engineer learns eventually, perfection in design, noble as it is, isn't
what counts; it's making stuff work.
OK, now I'm off topic. I'll shut up now. :)
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Michael Ashton <email@hidden>
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