There is a 53 minute video from the 2019 Audio Developers Conference (ADC) of a presentation by two Steinberg developers. The meat of the video is Steinberg believes the VST3 specification is better than MIDI 2.0. That is like comparing an apple to an orange.

One interesting point a Midi Manufacturer Association (MMA)representative made in another ADC presentation is it will be up to the host program (such as Band-in-a-Box & RealBand) to translate any communication between MIDI 2.0 and a plugin. The MMA is building a programmer toolkit to facilitate testing and verifying translation applications. I've got the feeling that is going to be a rocky road with many false starts before it works correctly.

A video I viewed demonstrated communication between two MIDI 2.0 devices. One device used system exclusive messages to transmit it's GUI to another device and then the second device mirrored device 1's GUI and followed control movements in real time. It was a really impressive demonstration of what is possible.


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