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by TazeTSchnitzel 34 days ago
In my experience the amount of buffering you get for USB MIDI seems to be highly variable. I've had incredibly frustrating problems with mysteriously vanishing commands with two different USB-MIDI adapters on macOS (to the point I would consider macOS unusable for MIDI, but since nobody else has ever complained about this it must be a quirk of the 2017 MacBook); on Windows, everything is always buffered properly; and then on Linux, it usually works, but then will randomly blow up.

Anyway, the æsthetic of this website trips my vibe-coding sense, though I might be oversensitised. I find that pretty depressing, because MIDI is a field of carefully designed resource-constrained systems, everything has been meticulously hand-crafted by generations of engineers and there is nothing so complex it would make sense to resort to AI. (Here's my own MIDI SysEx project that's all hand-written, by the way: https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/SoundPalette. Not trying to self-promote, I just wonder if it might be interesting.)

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I wrote the entire parser by hand to read Yamaha DX7 SysEx bytes, no AI generation here! Thanks for sharing SoundPalette, looks like a great reference