The State of Network MIDI (opens in new tab)

(mclarenlabs.com)

3 pointsdmoreno6y ago4 comments

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I'm curious, what is used, hardware-wise, for Network MIDI? Does network MIDI use a separate physical layer, separate from other network traffic? Or is layer-2 or -3 QoS used?

At work, our largest cluster uses Ethernet for front-end traffic, but uses Infiniband for back-end storage traffic (Lustre).

I wonder if studios etc. have looked at Infiniband for Network MIDI traffic. The low latency of Infiniband might be helpful! And (as I understand it) since MIDI is fairly low-bandwidth, older Infiniband technologies (like DDR) could be used, to save money.

dmorenoOP6y ago

For RTP MIDI, UDP is used. So anything that can transport UDP.

Simple Ethernet is more than good enough... but of course the lower the latency, the better.

mclaren-tom6y ago

That's right. But many studios will have a separate Ethernet network for MIDI traffic different from the internet and file transfer traffic in the studio.

mclaren-tom6y ago

article author here, ask me anything :-)

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