Thanks for that succint summary -- there were too many abstract concepts in the overall writeup for me to "get it", as I am so far outside the realm of being able to make use of this technology with what I currently own.keybored0 wrote:Ipmidi is a UDF MIDI protocol to communicate between multiple computers. It can communicate near zero latency MIDI signal over Ethernet or Firewire or wireless interfaces. For example, DP on one Mac and VIs on other Macs with no hardware MTPs or the like.
Based on this simple statement, I can easily see some huge advantages of this protocol and supporting program, for anyone who so much as has a dual computer setup. And in fact, it even courages that approach in that it "leads" vs. "follows", if that makes sense.
The point being, that sometimes something comes along that makes one solution path more appealing than another, when it comes to ways of dividing tasks and workloads either by category, by OS, or by resource intensity. This IPMIDI thingie looks to be a powerful and useful tool.
Once I finally get a new computer, it might be wise to hang onto my current one as a Vienna Ensemble host, and try this IPMIDI thingie via firewire or Ethernet (if I get a hub).
