Tuning 1193

In reference to the MIDI Tuning Spec, Fred Kohler points out that his
Tropez card supports only the non-real-time "tuning dump" part of the
spec, and fails to support the real-time single note tuning change
message.

Unfortunately, this is a reality of MIDI. Every manufacturer gets to
choose which parts of the spec they will or won't support. E.g., you
can support, or not support pitch bend, to a bit-depth of 7 or 14 or
whatever. Knowing this, we wanted to provide an implementation that
would accommodate extreme demands, yet still stand some chance of
acceptance in this laissez-faire industry.

Acceptance of the tuning spec was minimal to nil, except for champions
like Steve Curtin (late of Ensoniq), Dave Frost at Emu, Matt Isaacson at
Peavey, (and evidently someone at Turtle Beach) who fought hard and
worked late to get some portion of it in.

It was a nice idea, but with CPUs faster by the month it's probably over
for MIDI hardware. Maybe the software engines to come can learn from
our mistakes.


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