ghalestrilo / ornette

An OSC server to interact with different music-generating ML models
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Using a MIDI Prototype Buffer? #28

Open ghalestrilo opened 2 years ago

ghalestrilo commented 2 years ago

MIDI is a 30+ years old protocol for efficient data transfer between digital music devices. It's designed be serializable onto a binary format. Is it possible to encode / decode it directly using a google Protocol Buffer?

In other words, can we develop a Protobuf to implement MIDI? There would be many benefits to this, including (for the sake of this project):