Music On Mobile Devices
DJs have been making great strides for gear and technology developers. In this bottom up approach, the DJs actually have a need for mobile music making devices, and they have a need to connect and communicate with the devices around them. Without the DJ, this need would not be as strong and there might possibly be little reason for a developer to take the task. But there is a great demand for such a thing, so the brains behind the lab coats are now hard at work. The MIDI is actually a very simple idea that didn’t require much computing to handle the process. Notes were sent over a computer as commands rather than signals of sound. [embed width="656"]http://youtu.be/p7XzBHoWOV4[/embed However, the way MIDI is used today differs greatly from how it used to be used. Those messages do not just control notes in a virtual instrument, they control commands dictated from one device to the next. They also have to control a large influx of these commands at any given time, so it can be enough to bog down a slow computer or smartphone. The process needs a bit more refining before it can be used with advanced hardware such as wireless and Bluetooth protocols. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/07/01/droidcon-2013-music-on-mobile-devices-midi-and-libpd-peter-brinkmann/