[vorbis-dev] Ogg MIDI proposal

[Kenji Rikitake]

In the message <20010826012443.D109618D040 at motherfish.xiph.org>
at Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 06:24:21PM -0700,
Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> writes:
> We also talked about expanding the context of all midi events to
> simplify random access. (MIDI lets you omit the event status byte when
> you're only updating a parameter on the 'current' note.) Do we want to
> drop that since there are other issues with starting midi playback
> mid-stream?

I suggest you to keep the events as is, at least in the Ogg level.

Modern MIDI sequencers (such as QY100 of YAMAHA) do expand the "running
status" sequence (of event-status-omitted bytes), and modern MIDI
keyboards (such as CBX-K1 of YAMAHA or JP-8000 of Roland) simply
do not optimize the stream; they send every event with status bytes. 

Just my JPY 2 worth (and for showing the respect to the recent
development effort of Ogg Vorbis to the RC2 milestone and more),

// Kenji Rikitake

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