charlie hubbard wrote:

>  [snip]  .  What if I
> wanted to receive information over a network and from other computers?
> How about new synths that don't use midi?

This is being worked on:
    Yamaha's mLAN protocol is finding support from several leading
manufacturers:
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/tech/1394mLAN/mlan.html

and there is a similar Europe-based research project to develop
platform-independent network
protocols which would support audio-visual performance and control: see the
links to MIDAS and TEMA at:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/

>I think musicians are starving for some interesting new
>technologies.

My own opinion is that most musicians have yet to reach the linits of the
technologies already available! If musicians are really 'starving', given what
is available these days, they are probably unfeedable by now. :-)

Richard Dobson