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That sounds like a neat idea. Reminds me on SoundFont. But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG, Wave the equivalent to BMP, Flac to PNG and MP3 the one to JPEG?
by tom4000 5y ago
That sounds like a neat idea. Reminds me on SoundFont.
But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG, Wave the equivalent to BMP, Flac to PNG and MP3 the one to JPEG?
- rollcat 5y ago> But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG MIDI (1.0) is more equivalent to NES/GameBoy-style sprites. It was designed almost exclusively with piano-like keyboard controllers in mind, suffers from a lot of 80's-era hardware limitations, heavily biased towards western music, relies completely on the sound bank for actual rendering (you can't even set your own pixels on a sprite - you can only say "paint a Mario here"), relies in some places on vendor-specific extensions, overall really it hasn't aged as nicely as say TCP. A true "SVG, but for music" kind of equivalent would be an insanely interesting and challenging project. I'm not even sure if it should strive for more of a middle ground (so it can gain widespread adoption), or for flexibility (so it doesn't constrain creativity and allows expressiveness). Also check out: MIDI 2.0, OSC.
- duped 5y agoMIDI is more analogous to a coloring book than SVG
- bullen 5y agoLast I checked that's what people told me I was looking for, but when I tried to find some implementation that worked with .js I was stumped...