The EM Poll

XML for Music

Dec 1, 2003 12:00 PM, By Darin Stewart

           

Desktop musicians have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to software tools for making music. The proliferation of applications and plug-ins should allow you to piece together a suite of tools tailor-made for a variety of creative and commercial projects. Reality, however, doesn't always work out quite so neatly, even with the great power and versatility of MIDI.

The problem is that MIDI was designed to be a mechanism for sending and receiving musical event information, especially the explicit, quantifiable attributes of a performance. It is less than optimal for the richer set of attributes that many applications, such as notation and analysis programs, depend on. As a result, it's often difficult to get software from different vendors to play together nicely.

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