Re: MusicXML and MIDI

I think this assumes that notation is for playback, but that's not always the case. Durations will also inform the graphical appearance of a note (quarter, half, etc.). 

-Andrew

> On Apr 6, 2016, at 10:10 AM, James Ingram <j.ingram@netcologne.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have very little experience with the inner workings of MusicXML, so I ought to stay out of any detailed discussions about turning it into a W3C standard. However, I do have a proposal which I think might help to future-proof it.
> Maybe this is already implemented.  Maybe it can't be implemented. I really don't know.
> 
> Proposal:
> MusicXML should allow durations to be defined simply as milliseconds.
> 
> This would be an alternative to the tempo/beats/divisions timing model that comes from the 1981 MIDI standard.
> 
> During the recent process of defining the Web MIDI API, they discovered that the tempo/beats/divisions model was redundant. So they dropped it in favour of just using milliseconds. Browsers have to be very economical with their code. And MIDI.org says
>> the Web-MIDI API is the most significant advancement of MIDI since… MIDI itself!
> Adopting this proposal would allow the authoring tools that use standard clefs, staves and chord symbols to migrate gracefully to the more flexible timing model -- and still be MusicXML compatible.
> 
> Questions: Does MusicXML provide any support for MIDI Continuous Controllers? Can it? Should it?
> 
> All the best,
> James
> 
>

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