Doepfer Dark Time

[Jay Vaughan]

> I would hazard a guess 10/100/1000Base-T; in other words, normal Ethernet.

Thats the fantastically befuddling thing.  Ethernet can replace MIDI in a heartbeat.  Has it, in the 20 years so far, had a chance?  Nope. wtf?  Okay, yeah.  Ethernet does have hefty power requirements, whereas MIDI could be done with potatoes, me thinks, but .. still.  There is a lesson to be learned here.  Working hardware, counts.  MIDI has lived long because there are plenty of old synths and new synths out there with it onboard, just stock standard.  It costs very, very little to make a MIDI strap-on for whatever else is under the knobs, so yeah. 

But come on.  Audio/MIDI control over Ethernet?  Isn't it a bit, well .. faded .. in light of, say ANT+ and Bluetooth and so on?

The old saying goes, as we all know, "its always the f'in cable", so .. Ethernet?  No thanks, I already don't have any ethernet cables, much, around any more .. lets let the old epithet fade into oblivion against, probably, the new ones, like "oh, someone else is rockin' the spectrum, okay then.." and so on.

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Jay Vaughan