Re: Draft Updated Charter adding Mouse Lock and Gamepad

Since MIDI must to be synchronized with audio and video, I'd assume
the API would need to be somewhere close to Media Stream APIs.
So, I believe MIDI has in fact quite different requirements than
Gamepad API.



-Olli



On 10/05/2011 12:06 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I'd been talking with a variety of people about the need for a Music
> Controller API - i.e. MIDI input/output, so I can synchronize music
> apps, as well as interface my physical keyboard controllers,
> synthesizers and drum machines with the web platform.  After some
> thought, I'd like to propose that Music Device Communication be added to
> the Web Events charter - I believe the challenges of this API are quite
> similar to the Gamepad API (different API, but the same general kind of
> patterns, and heavily event-based). This would be the web platform's
> analog to CoreMIDI on MacOS/iOS, or the Windows MIDI API. Proposed
> charter text would read something like this:
>
>
>       Music Device Communication
>
> Some user agents have connected music devices, such as synthesize
>