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How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

23 pointsby halfradaitionlast Wednesday at 1:31 PM8 commentsview on HN

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_deftoday at 12:08 AM

tangent/feedback about the product: replacing abandoned desktop apps with a webapp with unknown future does not exactly excite me. Bundle this as a desktop app that works offline-first and you'll pique more interest.

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sargstufflast Thursday at 6:14 PM

Nice retro-demo/motivation for "what's the point of protocols/abstraction layers"[0].

Use case argument for an add-on programmable logic array / micro controller board as security interface / non-standard to standard protocol translation.

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[0] : https://www.terryewell.com/m116/Docs/historyMIDI.pdf

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Machayesterday at 10:04 PM

I had the opposite problem where using my (recent-ish) cheap midi keyboard with WebMidi was crashing Firefox.

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