[Bug 18992] Running status should be prohibited

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18992

--- Comment #7 from Chris Wilson <cwilso@gmail.com> 2012-10-03 17:09:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (...)
> > Something I'm wondering (maybe a bit off-topic) is that I have a few
> > MIDI->USB-MIDI adapters, how do these deal with running status? I assume the
> > adapter just adds the missing bytes?
> 
> yes they do: undoing running status yields an equivalent MIDI message, so no
> information is removed or added.

If the underlying implementation is handling running status, then why does it
matter?

Yamaha's request was that short MIDIMessages be complete messages - i.e., that
they not require additional state to be maintained from message to message
(aside from long messages that could be broken in multiple parts; they weren't
happy about that, but were okay with it.)  That seems like a logical request;
and with your current system, what does the Windows/Mac API give you for your
drum computer?

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Received on Wednesday, 3 October 2012 17:09:43 UTC