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- Archive-Name: auto/comp.music/ZIPI-Spec-was-Re-A-MIDI-less-topic
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- Here's one:
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- ZIPI (Zeta Instrument Processor Interface) is a proposed replacement
- for MIDI developed by Zeta Instruments and UC Berkeley's CNMAT (Center
- for New Music and Audio Technologies). ZIPI addresses many of MIDI's
- limitations; including bandwidth, number of channels, etc., as well
- as offering special control parameters for non-keyboard-based controllers
- such as data gloves, guitars, wind controllers, etc. Recently, the
- ZIPI specification has been made available by anonymous ftp at the
- following sites:
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- mitpress.mit.edu:/pub/Computer-Music-Journal/Texts/ZIPI/
- ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Publications/cmj/Texts/ZIPI/
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- In these directories are a README file and 6 articles in ASCII text and
- PostScript formats.
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- Those who do not have anonymous ftp access may send their name and postal
- address to zipi@cnmat.berkeley.edu for paper copies of the ZIPI specification.
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- ZIPI may have its name changed since its creators are thinking of dropping
- the "Zeta" part to make it more palatable to other manufacturers. Zeta
- hopes to introduce the first ZIPI-compatible guitar controller (with built
- in synthesizer and MIDI I/O) at the Winter NAMM, followed by a high-end
- ZIPI-compatible synthesizer module.
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- I am not affiliated with Zeta or CNMAT, but one of the readers of
- the Digital Guitar mailing list is an affiliate. :)
-
- Paolo Valladolid
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