[Lio]

This looks like a really great project.

I naively thought that with 300ish synths covered they'd have everything I own but I can see that's not the case.

I've got Alesis, Casio and Yamaha equipment that's missing. Time to dig out the manuals and get a PR ready.

It's easy to forget how successful the MIDI standard is. It might be the most stable and still relevant digital standard of all time.

My oldest bit of kit is a Casio CZ-5000 from, I think, 1985. That I can plug it into the latest equipment without drivers and it still works is amazing. 5 pin DIN for the win!

[ductionist]

Hey thanks. I love the MIDI standard for exactly this reason too. Blows my mind that you can hook a forty year old synth up to a computer or iPad without drivers.

[rigonkulous]

Synth nerds got it right: open specs, and a general industry-wide desire to make things play well together. After all, its music, this is why music works in the first place..

[ductionist]

Totally, and I think the need for MIDI Guide - the fact that MIDI CC/NRPN is pretty much a free-for-all - is also why the spec has such staying power. It's so unopinionated that it imposes essentially zero constraints beyond message size. I love it.