Originally Posted by
colnago62
I have never heard any players complain about it. What don’t you like about it?
Because...honestly...most all players know jack about anything with a PCB in it. The people to ask about MIDI aren't performers, they're audio engineers and stage techs. A player just knows it "works" or "it doesn't work".
MIDI has been extended and extended and extended again because of what wasn't included originally since 1983; and because MIDI wasn't picky, universal support for all the features wasn't demanded so some devices supported only some things...and now? There's massive inertia to do anything other that let it sit. And what is more--any overhaul has to be backwards compatible with all the 1980s hardware out there that no one is using and broke 30 years ago. There have been talks of an overhaul for a decade and a half. Still hasn't happened.
Personally, I've never been a fan of the DIN connector. Easily busted. No signal boosting when daisy chained (at least not for years with any arbitrary MIDI device). It should have been retired back 15 years ago minimum. AKA when USB was clearly the thing the universe was heading to run on....and basically all OEMs include XLR or FireWire or *gasp* USB.
In an orchestra pit not too long ago we needed to use a MIDI synth....well, because MIDI, and OEMs....the sound that was wanted wasn't in the "General MIDI" bank or even on board the synth. "No Problem" you can sideload sounds, live, from a laptop or other computer. During one of the shows--the MIDI/laptop connection crashed. Kaput. Luckily, with a hard reboot things came back during intermission.