Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad

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Subject: Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad

Date: Friday, July 13, 2012 - 8:32 pm

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 08:11:56PM +0100, Kaspar Bumke wrote:

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> >
> > Is there a technical motivation for doing that (low-latency, reduce
> > bandwidth to allow staggering multiple LPs on a single MIDI bus, etc) or
> > was the protocol simply designed by the marketing dept?
>
>
> I think it was driven by cost reduction mainly. It was pretty much all they
> could manage with the low cost MCU they used.

Don't think so. Implementing running status requires more code
than just sending three bytes all the time. They just didn't
think long enough. Strange because the rest of the protocol is
clean and well-designed.

Ciao,

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[LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Atte André Jensen, (Thu Jul 12, 7:28 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Thu Jul 12, 9:02 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Atte André Jensen, (Fri Jul 13, 6:55 am)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Fri Jul 13, 8:59 am)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Kaspar Bumke, (Fri Jul 13, 3:56 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Fri Jul 13, 8:40 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Atte André Jensen, (Fri Jul 13, 4:23 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Kaspar Bumke, (Fri Jul 13, 4:41 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Fri Jul 13, 8:46 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Robin Gareus, (Fri Jul 13, 6:59 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Kaspar Bumke, (Fri Jul 13, 7:12 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Fri Jul 13, 8:32 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Kaspar Bumke, (Fri Jul 13, 6:59 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Fons Adriaensen, (Fri Jul 13, 8:34 pm)

Re: [LAU] strange behaviour with novation launchpad, Kaspar Bumke, (Fri Jul 13, 4:08 pm)