The State of Network MIDI

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I'm curious, what is used, hardware-wise, for Network MIDI? Does network MIDI use a separate physical layer, separate from other network traffic? Or is layer-2 or -3 QoS used?

At work, our largest cluster uses Ethernet for front-end traffic, but uses Infiniband for back-end storage traffic (Lustre).

I wonder if studios etc. have looked at Infiniband for Network MIDI traffic. The low latency of Infiniband might be helpful! And (as I understand it) since MIDI is fairly low-bandwidth, older Infiniband technologies (like DDR) could be used, to save money.

For RTP MIDI, UDP is used. So anything that can transport UDP.

Simple Ethernet is more than good enough... but of course the lower the latency, the better.

That's right. But many studios will have a separate Ethernet network for MIDI traffic different from the internet and file transfer traffic in the studio.

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