Musikmesse 2018

Mogens asked about our plans for Musikmesse. We are trying to arrange a meeting there as usual. However the meeting rooms appear to be in scarcer supply this year, so we may need to move the meeting to Thursday, April 12. So far the meeting has not been confirmed by the Musikmesse staff. We will update the group as soon as we know more.

We are looking for a sponsor for the reception after the meeting. In the past we have always had the sponsor be a Musikmesse exhibitor, but I don’t think that would be required. Please contact me off-list if your company would be interested in sponsoring this year’s reception.

Mogens, regarding your MIDI-related suggestions, could you please write these up as issues in the MNX GitHub repository? Thanks!

Best regards,

Michael Good
VP of MusicXML Technologies
MakeMusic, Inc.


> On Feb 13, 2018, at 12:13 PM, mogens@lundholm.org wrote:
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> Many thanks for the video and summary.
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> Other thoughts: The MIDI association was also present at NAMM. MIDI is important for all of us.
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> Demiditize? It seems to me like MNX should have an interface that is more general than the specification in MusicXML, with is MIDI-specification. We should call an instrument for an instrument and not for a program. And the instrument should not be limited to 127 but to a bigger list. And channel numbers not limited to 0 to 15. And pitch not to 0..127, but with fraction. They say a new MIDI-version is coming. I could want just another
> byte to the three limitations on instrument, channel and pitch plus the missing Clef metaevent FF 5A .... Then I would be satisfied.
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> I often think there is a gap between what we want to do and reality. Especially about the structure of the music. Programming languages have simple but effective structures to handle the structure. But music has not. Sitting with a tune with "repeats", "voltas", "Segno", "D.S.al Coda""Coda" and "D.C. senza rep." and two implicite repeats at the start of the tune.
> A music-subroutine is also needed like done in the makam-music, where the text "[son]" indicates a return to last position.
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> Musikmesse in Frankfurt: As usual?
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> /Mogens
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