>What's all this talk about 32 bit floats,etc ? Maybe I'm missing the
>obvious, but wouldn't some hypothetical future networked MIDI
>replacement transmit messages in ASCII and not binary? IOW, wouldn't you
>want to transmit a value of 2.67 as the ASCII string "2.67"? What
>argument could you make for transmitting binrary floats instead?


Good point. Actually I was assuming that the data MIGHT be transmitted, and
SHOULD be stored, as text. But the numbers have to be converted to float or
double to monkey with them, to represent them in useful form in the memory
of the computer.

Plus, I do think the speed gained by keeping the transmission protocol
binary would be worth something. There is never such a thing as enough
speed.