The good news, anorexic as it may be, is that the TRS MIDI debacle is not intractable. It is a mess produced by institutional passivity and manufacturer individualism, and those are forces that can be reversed through institutional assertiveness and manufacturer coordination, which are incidentally precisely the forces that created MIDI’s original success. Here are some thoughts on what a strict, time-bounded remediation by the MIDI Association and the corresponding manufacturers who caused this problem could pursue. They certainly owe it to their users to find some sort of resolution.
The first and most immediately actionable…
