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I've been following the development of MIDI 2.0 specs ¹ with interest (just personal, not for work).

In the past year, I got fairly deep into Open Sound Control ², which has so much fun potential and can practically be a superset of MIDI. In fact, I implemented encode/decode from OSC <-> MIDI in C++ and Node.js for a hobby project.

So I wonder, could MIDI and OSC converge in the future?

It seems to me that the latter being a generic protocol for any kind of message, including musical data, that it could supercede depending on industry adoption (like MIDI+OSC instruments)..

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¹ https://www.midi.org/articles-old/details-about-midi-2-0-mid...

² http://opensoundcontrol.org/

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