| RFC : | rfc6295 |
| Title: | |
| Date: | June 2011 |
| Status: | PROPOSED STANDARD |
| Obsoletes: | 4695 |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Lazzaro
Request for Comments: 6295 J. Wawrzynek
Obsoletes: 4695 UC Berkeley
Category: Standards Track June 2011
ISSN: 2070-1721
RTP Payload Format for MIDI
Abstract
This memo describes a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) payload
format for the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) command
language. The format encodes all commands that may legally appear on
a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable. The format is suitable for interactive
applications (such as network musical performance) and content-
delivery applications (such as file streaming). The format may be
used over unicast and multicast UDP and TCP, and it defines tools for
graceful recovery from packet loss. Stream behavior, including the
MIDI rendering method, may be customized during session setup. The
format also serves as a mode for the mpeg4-generic format, to support
the MPEG 4 Audio Object Types for General MIDI, Downloadable Sounds
Level 2, and Structured Audio. This document obsoletes RFC 4695.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6295.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................4
1.1. Terminology ................................................6
1.2. Bitfield Conventions .......................................6
2. Packet Format ...................................................6
2.1. RTP Header .................................................7
2.2. MIDI Payload ..............................................11
3. MIDI Command Section ...........................................13
3.1. Timestamps ................................................14
3.2. Command Coding ............................................16
4. The Recovery Journal System ....................................22
5. Recovery Journal Format ........................................24
6. Session Description Protocol ...................................28
6.1. Session Descriptions for Native Streams ...................29
6.2. Session Descriptions for mpeg4-generic Streams ............30
6.3. Parameters ................................................33
7. Extensibility ..................................................34
8. Congestion Control .............................................35
9. Security Considerations ........................................35
10. Acknowledgements ..............................................36
11. IANA Considerations ...........................................37
11.1. rtp-midi Media Type Registration .........................38
11.1.1. Repository Request for audio/rtp-midi .............40
11.2. mpeg4-generic Media Type Registration ....................42
11.2.1. Repository Request for Mode rtp-midi for
mpeg4-generic .....................................44
11.3. asc Media Type Registration ..............................46
12. Changes from RFC 4695 .........................................48
Appendix A. The Recovery Journal Channel Chapters .................52
A.1. Recovery Journal Definitions ..............................52
A.2. Chapter P: MIDI Program Change ............................56
A.3. Chapter C: MIDI Control Change ............................57
A.3.1. Log Inclusion Rules ................................58
A.3.2. Controller Log Format ..............................59
A.3.3. Log List Coding Rules ..............................61
A.3.4. The Parameter System ...............................64
A.4. Chapter M: MIDI Parameter System ..........................66
A.4.1. Log Inclusion Rules ................................68
A.4.2. Log Coding Rules ...................................69
A.4.2.1. The Value Tool ..............................71
A.4.2.2. The Count Tool ..............................74
A.5. Chapter W: MIDI Pitch Wheel ...............................74
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A.6. Chapter N: MIDI NoteOff and NoteOn ........................75
A.6.1. Header Structure ...................................77
A.6.2. Note Structures ....................................78
A.7. Chapter E: MIDI Note Command Extras .......................79
A.7.1. Note Log Format ....................................80
A.7.2. Log Inclusion Rules ................................80
A.8. Chapter T: MIDI Channel Aftertouch ........................81
A.9. Chapter A: MIDI Poly Aftertouch ..........................82
Appendix B. The Recovery Journal System Chapters ..................83
B.1. System Chapter D: Simple System Commands ..................83
B.1.1. Undefined System Commands .....................84
B.2. System Chapter V: Active Sense Command ....................87
B.3. System Chapter Q: Sequencer State Commands ................87
B.3.1. Non-Compliant Sequencers ......................89
B.4. System Chapter F: MIDI Time Code Tape Position ............90
B.4.1. Partial Frames ....................................93
B.5. System Chapter X: System Exclusive ........................94
B.5.1. Chapter Format ................................94
B.5.2. Log Inclusion Semantics .......................96
B.5.3. TCOUNT and COUNT Fields .......................99
Appendix C. Session Configuration Tools ....... ..................100
C.1. Configuration Tools: Stream Subsetting ...................101
C.2. Configuration Tools: The Journalling System ..............106
C.2.1. The j_sec Parameter ...............................106
C.2.2. The j_update Parameter ............................107
C.2.2.1. The anchor Sending Policy ..................108
C.2.2.2. The closed-loop Sending Policy .............109
C.2.2.3. The open-loop Sending Policy ...............113
C.2.3. Recovery Journal Chapter Inclusion Parameters .....114
C.3. Configuration Tools: Timestamp Semantics .................119
C.3.1. The comex Algorithm ...............................120
C.3.2. The async Algorithm ...............................121
C.3.3. The buffer Algorithm ..............................122
C.4. Configuration Tools: Packet Timing Tools .................123
C.4.1. Packet Duration Tools .............................123
C.4.2. The guardtime Parameter ...........................124
C.5. Configuration Tools: Stream Description ..................125
C.6. Configuration Tools: MIDI Rendering ......................131
C.6.1. The multimode Parameter ...........................132
C.6.2. Renderer Specification ............................133
C.6.3. Renderer Initialization ...........................135
C.6.4. MIDI Channel Mapping ..............................137
C.6.4.1. The smf_info Parameter .....................138
C.6.4.2. The smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid
Parameters .................................140
C.6.4.3. The chanmask Parameter .....................140
C.6.5. The audio/asc Media Type ..........................141
C.7. Interoperability .........................................143
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C.7.1. MIDI Content-Streaming Applications ...............144
C.7.2. MIDI Network Musical Performance Applications .....147
Appendix D. Parameter Syntax Definitions .... ....................153
Appendix E. A MIDI Overview for Networking Specialists ...........160
E.1. Commands Types ...........................................162
E.2. Running Status ...........................................163
E.3. Command Timing ...........................................163
E.4. AudioSpecificConfig Templates for MMA Renderers ..........164
References .......................................................169
Normative References ..........................................169
Informative References ........................................170
1. Introduction
This document obsoletes [RFC4695].
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has developed a set of
focused tools for multimedia networking ([RFC3550] [RFC4566]
[RFC3261] [RFC2326]). These tools can be combined in different ways
to support a variety of real-time applications over Internet Protocol
(IP) networks.
For example, a telephony application might use the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP, [RFC3261]) to set up a phone call. Call setup would
include negotiations to agree on a common audio codec [RFC3264].
Negotiations would use the Session Description Protocol (SDP,
[RFC4566]) to describe candidate codecs.
After a call is set up, audio data would flow between the parties
using the Real Time Protocol (RTP, [RFC3550]) under any applicable
profile (for example, the Audio/Visual Profile (AVP, [RFC3551])).
The tools used in this telephony example (SIP, SDP, and RTP) might be
combined in a different way to support a content-streaming
application, perhaps in conjunction with other tools, such as the
Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP, [RFC2326]).
The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) command language
[MIDI] is widely used in musical applications that are analogous to
the examples described above. On stage and in the recording studio,
MIDI is used for the interactive remote control of musical
instruments, an application similar in spirit to telephony. On web
pages, Standard MIDI Files (SMFs, [MIDI]) rendered using the General
MIDI standard [MIDI] provide a low-bandwidth substitute for audio
streaming.
[RFC4695] was motivated by a simple premise: if MIDI performances
could be sent as RTP streams that are managed by IETF session tools,
a hybridization of the MIDI and IETF application domains might occur.
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For example, interoperable MIDI networking might foster network music
performance applications, in which a group of musicians located at
different physical locations interact over a network to perform as
they would if they were located in the same room [NMP]. As a second
example, the streaming community might begin to use MIDI for low-
bitrate audio coding, perhaps in conjunction with normative sound-
synthesis methods [MPEGSA].
Five years after [RFC4695], these applications have not yet reached
the mainstream. However, experiments in academia and industry
continue. This memo, which obsoletes [RFC4695] and fixes minor
errata (see Section 12), has been written in service of these
experiments.
To enable MIDI applications to use RTP, this memo defines an RTP
payload format and its media type. Sections 2-5 and Appendices A and
B define the RTP payload format. Section 6 and Appendices C and D
define the media types identifying the payload format, the parameters
needed for configuration, and the utilization of the parameters in
SDP.
Appendix C also includes interoperability guidelines for the example
applications described above: network musical performance using SIP
(Appendix C.7.2) and content streaming using RTSP (Appendix C.7.1).
Another potential application area for RTP MIDI is MIDI networking
for professional audio equipment and electronic musical instruments.
We do not offer interoperability guidelines for this application in
this memo. However, RTP MIDI has been designed with stage and studio
applications in mind, and we expect that efforts to define a stage
and studio framework will rely on RTP MIDI for MIDI transport
services.
Some applications may require MIDI media delivery at a certain
service quality level (latency, jitter, packet loss, etc.). RTP
itself does not provide service guarantees. However, applications
may use lower-layer network protocols to configure the quality of the
transport services that RTP uses. These protocols may act to reserve
network resources for RTP flows [RFC2205] or may simply direct RTP
traffic onto a dedicated "media network" in a local installation.
Note that RTP and the MIDI payload format do provide tools that
applications may use to achieve the best possible real-time
performance at a given service level.
This memo normatively defines the syntax and semantics of the MIDI
payload format. However, this memo does not define algorithms for
sending and receiving packets. An ancillary document [RFC4696]
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provides informative guidance on algorithms. Supplemental
information may be found in related conference publications [NMP]
[GRAME].
Throughout this memo, the phrase "native stream" refers to a stream
that uses the rtp-midi media type. The phrase "mpeg4-generic stream"
refers to a stream that uses the mpeg4-generic media type (in mode
rtp-midi) to operate in an MPEG 4 environment [RFC3640]. Section 6
describes this distinction in detail.
1.1. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119
[RFC2119].
1.2. Bitfield Conventions
Several bitfield coding idioms are used in this document. As most of
these idioms only appear in Appendices A and B, we define them in
Appendix A.1.
However, a few of these idioms also appear in the main text of this
document. For convenience, we describe them below:
o R flag bit. R flag bits are reserved for future use. Senders
MUST set R bits to 0. Receivers MUST ignore R bit values.
o LENGTH field. All fields named LENGTH (as distinct from LEN) code
the number of octets in the structure that contains it, including
the header it resides in and all hierarchical levels below it. If
a structure contains a LENGTH field, a receiver MUST use the
LENGTH field value to advance past the structure during parsing,
rather than use knowledge about the internal format of the
structure.
2. Packet Format
In this section, we introduce the format of RTP MIDI packets. The
description includes some background information on RTP for the
benefit of MIDI implementors new to IETF tools. Implementors should
consult [RFC3550] for an authoritative description of RTP.
This memo assumes that the reader is familiar with MIDI syntax and
semantics. Appendix E provides a MIDI overview, at a level of detail
sufficient to understand most of this memo. Implementors should
consult [MIDI] for an authoritative description of MIDI.
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The MIDI payload format maps a MIDI command stream (16 voice channels
+ systems) onto an RTP stream. An RTP media stream is a sequence of
logical packets that share a common format. Each packet consists of
two parts: the RTP header and the MIDI payload. Figure 1 shows this
format (vertical space delineates the header and payload).
We describe RTP packets as "logical" packets to highlight the fact
that RTP itself is not a network-layer protocol. Instead, RTP
packets are mapped onto network protocols (such as unicast UDP,
multicast UDP, or TCP) by an application [ALF]. The interleaved mode
of the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP, [RFC2326]) is an example
of an RTP mapping to TCP transport, as is [RFC4571].
2.1. RTP Header
[RFC3550] provides a complete description of the RTP header fields.
In this section, we clarify the role of a few RTP header fields for
MIDI applications. All fields are coded in network byte order (big-
endian).
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| V |P|X| CC |M| PT | Sequence number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Timestamp |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| SSRC |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MIDI command section ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Journal section ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1 -- Packet Format
The behavior of the 1-bit M field depends on the media type of the
stream. For native streams, the M bit MUST be set to 1 if the MIDI
command section has a non-zero LEN field and MUST be set to 0
otherwise. For mpeg4-generic streams, the M bit MUST be set to 1 for
all packets (to conform to [RFC3640]).
In an RTP MIDI stream, the 16-bit sequence number field is
initialized to a randomly chosen value and is incremented by one
(modulo 2^16) for each packet sent in the stream. A related
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quantity, the 32-bit extended packet sequence number, may be computed
by tracking rollovers of the 16-bit sequence number. Note that
different receivers of the same stream may compute different extended
packet sequence numbers, depending on when the receiver joined the
session.
The 32-bit timestamp field sets the base timestamp value for the
packet. The payload codes MIDI command timing relative to this
value. The timestamp units are set by the clock rate parameter. For
example, if the clock rate has a value of 44100 Hz, two packets whose
base timestamp values differ by 2 seconds have RTP timestamp fields
that differ by 88200.
Note that the clock rate parameter is not encoded within each RTP
MIDI packet. A receiver of an RTP MIDI stream becomes aware of the
clock rate as part of the session setup process. For example, if a
session management tool uses the Session Description Protocol (SDP,
[RFC4566]) to describe a media session, the clock rate parameter is
set using the rtpmap attribute. We show examples of session setup in
Section 6.
For RTP MIDI streams destined to be rendered into audio, the clock
rate SHOULD be an audio sample rate of 32 KHz or higher. This
recommendation is due to the sensitivity of human musical perception
to small timing errors in musical note sequences and due to the
timbral changes that occur when two near-simultaneous MIDI NoteOns
are rendered with a different timing than that desired by the content
author due to clock rate quantization. RTP MIDI streams that are not
destined for audio rendering (such as MIDI streams that control stage
lighting) MAY use a lower clock rate but SHOULD use a clock rate high
enough to avoid timing artifacts in the application.
For RTP MIDI streams destined to be rendered into audio, the clock
rate SHOULD be chosen from rates in common use in professional audio
applications or in consumer audio distribution. At the time of this
writing, these rates include 32 KHz, 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 64 KHz, 88.2
KHz, 96 KHz, 176.4 KHz, and 192 KHz. If the RTP MIDI session is a
part of a synchronized media session that includes another (non-MIDI)
RTP audio stream with a clock rate of 32 KHz or higher, the RTP MIDI
stream SHOULD use a clock rate that matches the clock rate of the
other audio stream. However, if the RTP MIDI stream is destined to
be rendered into audio, the RTP MIDI stream SHOULD NOT use a clock
rate lower than 32 KHz, even if this second stream has a clock rate
lower than 32 KHz.
Timestamps of consecutive packets do not necessarily increment at a
fixed rate because RTP MIDI packets are not necessarily sent at a
fixed rate. The degree of packet transmission regularity reflects
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the underlying application dynamics. Interactive applications may
vary the packet-sending rate to track the gestural rate of a human
performer, whereas content-streaming applications may send packets at
a fixed rate.
Therefore, the timestamps for two sequential RTP packets may be
identical, or the second packet may have a timestamp arbitrarily
larger than the first packet (modulo 2^32). Section 3 places
additional restrictions on the RTP timestamps for two sequential RTP
packets, as does the guardtime parameter (Appendix C.4.2).
We use the term "media time" to denote the temporal duration of the
media coded by an RTP packet. The media time coded by a packet is
computed by subtracting the last command timestamp in the MIDI
command section from the RTP timestamp (modulo 2^32). If the MIDI
list of the MIDI command section of a packet is empty, the media time
coded by the packet is 0 ms. Appendix C.4.1 discusses media time
issues in detail.
We now define RTP session semantics, in the context of sessions
specified using the Session Description Protocol [RFC4566]. A
session description media line ("m=") specifies an RTP session. An
RTP session has an independent space of 2^32 synchronization sources.
Synchronization source identifiers are coded in the SSRC header field
of RTP session packets. The payload types that may appear in the PT
header field of RTP session packets are listed at the end of the
media line.
Several RTP MIDI streams may appear in an RTP session. Each stream
is distinguished by a unique SSRC value and has a unique sequence
number and RTP timestamp space. Multiple streams in the RTP session
may be sent by a single party. Multiple parties may send streams in
the RTP session. An RTP MIDI stream encodes data for a single MIDI
command name space (16 voice channels + systems).
Streams in an RTP session may use different payload types or they may
use the same payload type. However, each party may send, at most,
one RTP MIDI stream for each payload type mapped to an RTP MIDI
payload format in an RTP session. Recall that dynamic binding of
payload type numbers in [RFC4566] lets a party map many payload type
numbers to the RTP MIDI payload format; thus, a party may send many
RTP MIDI streams in a single RTP session. Pairs of streams (unicast
or multicast) that communicate between two parties in an RTP session
and that share a payload type have the same association as a MIDI
cable pair that cross-connects two devices in a MIDI 1.0 DIN network.
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The RTP session architecture described above is efficient in its use
of network ports, as one RTP session (using a port pair per party)
supports the transport of many MIDI name spaces (16 MIDI channels +
systems). We define tools for grouping and labelling MIDI name
spaces across streams and sessions in Appendix C.5 of this memo.
The RTP header timestamps for each stream in an RTP session have
separately and randomly chosen initialization values. Receivers use
the timing fields encoded in the RTP Control Protocol (RTCP,
[RFC3550]) sender reports to synchronize the streams sent by a party.
The SSRC values for each stream in an RTP session are also separately
and randomly chosen, as described in [RFC3550]. Receivers use the
CNAME field encoded in RTCP sender reports to verify that streams
were sent by the same party and to detect SSRC collisions, as
described in [RFC3550].
In some applications, a receiver renders MIDI commands into audio (or
into control actions, such as the rewind of a tape deck or the
dimming of stage lights). In other applications, a receiver presents
a MIDI stream to software programs via an Application Programming
Interface (API). Appendix C.6 defines session configuration tools to
specify what receivers should do with a MIDI command stream.
If a multimedia session uses different RTP MIDI streams to send
different classes of media, the streams MUST be sent over different
RTP sessions. For example, if a multimedia session uses one MIDI
stream for audio and a second MIDI stream to control a lighting
system, the audio and lighting streams MUST be sent over different
RTP sessions, each with its own media line.
Session description tools defined in Appendix C.5 let a sending party
split a single MIDI name space (16 voice channels + systems) over
several RTP MIDI streams. Split transport of a MIDI command stream
is a delicate task because correct command stream reconstruction by a
receiver depends on exact timing synchronization across the streams.
To support split name spaces, we define the following requirements:
o A party MUST NOT send several RTP MIDI streams that share a MIDI
name space in the same RTP session. Instead, each stream MUST be
sent from a different RTP session.
o If several RTP MIDI streams sent by a party share a MIDI name
space, all streams MUST use the same SSRC value and MUST use the
same randomly chosen RTP timestamp initialization value.
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These rules let a receiver identify streams that share a MIDI name
space (by matching SSRC values) and also let a receiver accurately
reconstruct the source MIDI command stream (by using RTP timestamps
to interleave commands from the two streams). Care MUST be taken by
senders to ensure that SSRC changes due to collisions are reflected
in both streams. Receivers MUST regularly examine the RTCP CNAME
fields associated with the linked streams to ensure that the assumed
link is legitimate and not the result of an SSRC collision by another
sender.
Except for the special cases described above, a party may send many
RTP MIDI streams in the same session. However, it is sometimes
advantageous for two RTP MIDI streams to be sent over different RTP
sessions. For example, two streams may need different values for RTP
session-level attributes (such as the sendonly and recvonly
attributes). As a second example, two RTP sessions may be needed to
send two unicast streams in a multimedia session that originate on
different computers (with different IP numbers). Two RTP sessions
are needed in this case because transport addresses are specified on
the RTP-session or multimedia-session level, not on a payload type
level.
On a final note, in some uses of MIDI, parties send bidirectional
traffic to conduct transactions (such as file exchange). These
commands were designed to work over MIDI 1.0 DIN cable networks and
may be configured in a multicast topology, which uses pure "party-
line" signalling. Thus, if a multimedia session ensures a multicast
connection between all parties, bidirectional MIDI commands will work
without additional support from the RTP MIDI payload format.
2.2. MIDI Payload
The payload (Figure 1) MUST begin with the MIDI command section. The
MIDI command section codes a (possibly empty) list of timestamped
MIDI commands and provides the essential service of the payload
format.
The payload MAY also contain a journal section. The journal section
provides resiliency by coding the recent history of the stream. A
flag in the MIDI command section codes the presence of a journal
section in the payload.
Section 3 defines the MIDI command section. Sections 4 and 5 and
Appendices A and B define the recovery journal, the default format
for the journal section. Here, we describe how these payload
sections operate in a stream in an RTP session.
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The journalling method for a stream is set at the start of a session
and MUST NOT be changed thereafter. A stream may be set to use the
recovery journal, to use an alternative journal format (none are
defined in this memo), or not to use a journal.
The default journalling method of a stream is inferred from its
transport type. Streams that use unreliable transport (such as UDP)
default to using the recovery journal. Streams that use reliable
transport (such as TCP) default to not using a journal. Appendix
C.2.1 defines session configuration tools for overriding these
defaults. For all types of transport, a sender MUST transmit an RTP
packet stream with consecutive sequence numbers (modulo 2^16).
If a stream uses the recovery journal, every payload in the stream
MUST include a journal section. If a stream does not use
journalling, a journal section MUST NOT appear in a stream payload.
If a stream uses an alternative journal format, the specification for
the journal format defines an inclusion policy.
If a stream is sent over UDP transport, the Maximum Transmission Unit
(MTU) of the underlying network limits the practical size of the
payload section (for example, an Ethernet MTU is 1500 octets) for
applications where predictable and minimal packet transmission
latency is critical. A sender SHOULD NOT create RTP MIDI UDP packets
whose sizes exceed the MTU of the underlying network. Instead, the
sender SHOULD take steps to keep the maximum packet size under the
MTU limit.
These steps may take many forms. The default closed-loop recovery
journal sending policy (defined in Appendix C.2.2.2) uses RTP Control
Protocol (RTCP, [RFC3550]) feedback to manage the RTP MIDI packet
size. In addition, Section 3.2 and Appendix B.5.2 provide specific
tools for managing the size of packets that code MIDI System
Exclusive (0xF0) commands. Appendix C.5 defines session
configuration tools that may be used to split a dense MIDI name space
into several UDP streams (each sent in a different RTP session, per
Section 2.1) so that the payload fits comfortably into an MTU.
Another option is to use TCP. Section 4.3 of [RFC4696] provides non-
normative advice for packet size management.
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3. MIDI Command Section
Figure 2 shows the format of the MIDI command section.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|B|J|Z|P|LEN... | MIDI list ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2 -- MIDI Command Section
The MIDI command section begins with a variable-length header.
The header field LEN codes the number of octets in the MIDI list that
follow the header. If the header flag B is 0, the header is one
octet long, and LEN is a 4-bit field, supporting a maximum MIDI list
length of 15 octets.
If B is 1, the header is two octets long, and LEN is a 12-bit field,
supporting a maximum MIDI list length of 4095 octets. LEN is coded
in network byte order (big-endian): the 4 bits of LEN that appear in
the first header octet code the most significant 4 bits of the 12-bit
LEN value.
A LEN value of 0 is legal, and it codes an empty MIDI list.
If the J header bit is set to 1, a journal section MUST appear after
the MIDI command section in the payload. If the J header bit is set
to 0, the payload MUST NOT contain a journal section.
We define the semantics of the P header bit in Section 3.2.
If the LEN header field is nonzero, the MIDI list has the structure
shown in Figure 3.
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Delta Time 0 (1-4 octets long, or 0 octets if Z = 0) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MIDI Command 0 (1 or more octets long) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Delta Time 1 (1-4 octets long) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MIDI Command 1 (1 or more octets long) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Delta Time N (1-4 octets long) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MIDI Command N (0 or more octets long) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 3 -- MIDI List Structure
If the header flag Z is 1, the MIDI list begins with a complete MIDI
command (coded in the MIDI Command 0 field in Figure 3) preceded by a
delta time (coded in the Delta Time 0 field). If Z is 0, the Delta
Time 0 field is not present in the MIDI list, and the command coded
in the MIDI Command 0 field has an implicit delta time of 0.
The MIDI list structure may also optionally encode a list of N
additional complete MIDI commands, each coded in a MIDI Command K
field. Each additional command MUST be preceded by a Delta Time K
field, which codes the command's delta time. We discuss exceptions
to the "command fields code complete MIDI commands" rule in Section
3.2.
The final MIDI command field (i.e., the MIDI Command N field, shown
in Figure 3) in the MIDI list MAY be empty. Moreover, a MIDI list
MAY consist of a single delta time (encoded in the Delta Time 0
field) without an associated command (which would have been encoded
in the MIDI Command 0 field). These rules enable MIDI coding
features that are explained in Section 3.1. We delay the
explanations because an understanding of RTP MIDI timestamps is
necessary to describe the features.
3.1. Timestamps
In this section, we describe how RTP MIDI encodes a timestamp for
each MIDI list command. Command timestamps have the same units as
RTP packet header timestamps (described in Section 2.1 and
[RFC3550]). Recall that RTP timestamps have units of seconds, whose
scaling is set during session configuration (see Section 6.1 and
[RFC4566]).
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As shown in Figure 3, the MIDI list encodes time using a compact
delta time format. The RTP MIDI delta time syntax is a modified form
of the MIDI File delta time syntax [MIDI]. RTP MIDI delta times use
1-4 octet fields to encode 32-bit unsigned integers. Figure 4 shows
the encoded and decoded forms of delta times. Note that delta time
values may be legally encoded in multiple formats; for example, there
are four legal ways to encode the zero delta time (0x00, 0x8000,
0x808000, 0x80808000).
RTP MIDI uses delta times to encode a timestamp for each MIDI
command. The timestamp for MIDI Command K is the summation (modulo
2^32) of the RTP timestamp and decoded delta times 0 through K. This
cumulative coding technique, borrowed from MIDI File delta time
coding, is efficient because it reduces the number of multi-octet
delta times.
All command timestamps in a packet MUST be less than or equal to the
RTP timestamp of the next packet in the stream (modulo 2^32).
This restriction ensures that a particular RTP MIDI packet in a
stream is uniquely responsible for encoding time, starting at the
moment after the RTP timestamp encoded in the RTP packet header and
ending at the moment before the final command timestamp encoded in
the MIDI list. The "moment before" and "moment after" qualifiers
acknowledge the "less than or equal" semantics (as opposed to
"strictly less than") in the sentence above this paragraph.
Note that it is possible to "pad" the end of an RTP MIDI packet with
time that is guaranteed to be void of MIDI commands, by setting the
"Delta Time N" field of the MIDI list to the end of the void time and
by omitting its corresponding "MIDI Command N" field (a syntactic
construction the preamble of Section 3 expressly made legal).
In addition, it is possible to code an RTP MIDI packet to express
that a period of time in the stream is void of MIDI commands. The
RTP timestamp in the header would code the start of the void time.
The MIDI list of this packet would consist of a "Delta Time 0" field
that coded the end of the void time. No other fields would be
present in the MIDI list (a syntactic construction the preamble of
Section 3 also expressly made legal).
By default, a command timestamp indicates the execution time for the
command. The difference between two timestamps indicates the time
delay between the execution of the commands. This difference may be
zero, coding simultaneous execution. In this memo, we refer to this
interpretation of timestamps as "comex" (COMmand EXecution)
semantics. We formally define comex semantics in Appendix C.3.
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The comex interpretation of timestamps works well for transcoding a
Standard MIDI File (SMF) into an RTP MIDI stream, as SMFs code a
timestamp for each MIDI command stored in the file. To transcode an
SMF that uses metric time markers, use the SMF tempo map (encoded in
the SMF as meta-events) to convert metric SMF timestamp units into
seconds-based RTP timestamp units.
The comex interpretation also works well for MIDI hardware
controllers that are coding raw sensor data directly onto an RTP MIDI
stream. Note that this controller design is preferable to a design
that converts raw sensor data into a MIDI 1.0 cable command stream
and then transcodes the stream onto an RTP MIDI stream.
The comex interpretation of timestamps is usually not the best
timestamp interpretation for transcoding a MIDI source that uses
implicit command timing (such as MIDI 1.0 DIN cables) into an RTP
MIDI stream. Appendix C.3 defines alternatives to comex semantics
and describes session configuration tools for selecting the timestamp
interpretation semantics for a stream.
One-Octet Delta Time:
Encoded form: 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0ddddddd
Two-Octet Delta Time:
Encoded form: 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 00000000 00cccccc cddddddd
Three-Octet Delta Time:
Encoded form: 1bbbbbbb 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 000bbbbb bbcccccc cddddddd
Four-Octet Delta Time:
Encoded form: 1aaaaaaa 1bbbbbbb 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 0000aaaa aaabbbbb bbcccccc cddddddd
Figure 4 -- Decoding Delta Time Formats
3.2. Command Coding
Each non-empty MIDI Command field in the MIDI list codes one of the
MIDI command types that may legally appear on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable.
Standard MIDI File meta-events do not fit this definition and MUST
NOT appear in the MIDI list. As a rule, each MIDI Command field
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codes a complete command, in the binary command format defined in
[MIDI]. In the remainder of this section, we describe exceptions to
this rule.
The first MIDI channel command in the MIDI list MUST include a status
octet. Running status coding, as defined in [MIDI], MAY be used for
all subsequent MIDI channel commands in the list. As in [MIDI],
System Common and System Exclusive messages (0xF0 ... 0xF7) cancel
the running status state, but System Real-Time messages (0xF8 ...
0xFF) do not affect the running status state. All system commands in
the MIDI list MUST include a status octet.
As we note above, the first channel command in the MIDI list MUST
include a status octet. However, the corresponding command in the
original MIDI source data stream might not have a status octet (in
this case, the source would be coding the command using running
status). If the status octet of the first channel command in the
MIDI list does not appear in the source data stream, the P (phantom)
header bit MUST be set to 1. In all other cases, the P bit MUST be
set to 0.
Note that the P bit describes the MIDI source data stream, not the
MIDI list encoding; regardless of the state of the P bit, the MIDI
list MUST include the status octet.
As receivers MUST be able to decode running status, sender
implementors should feel free to use running status to improve
bandwidth efficiency. However, senders SHOULD NOT introduce timing
jitter into an existing MIDI command stream through an inappropriate
use or removal of running status coding. This warning primarily
applies to senders whose RTP MIDI streams may be transcoded onto a
MIDI 1.0 DIN cable [MIDI] by the receiver: both the timestamps and
the command coding (running status or not) must comply with the
physical restrictions of implicit time coding over a slow serial
line.
On a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable [MIDI], a System Real-Time command may be
embedded inside of another "host" MIDI command. This syntactic
construction is not supported in the payload format: a MIDI Command
field in the MIDI list codes exactly one MIDI command (partially or
completely).
To encode an embedded System Real-Time command, senders MUST extract
the command from its host and code it in the MIDI list as a separate
command. The host command and System Real-Time command SHOULD appear
in the same MIDI list. The delta time of the System Real-Time
command SHOULD result in a command timestamp that encodes the System
Real-Time command placement in its original embedded position.
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Two methods are provided for encoding MIDI System Exclusive (SysEx)
commands in the MIDI list. A SysEx command may be encoded in a MIDI
Command field verbatim: a 0xF0 octet, followed by an arbitrary number
of data octets, followed by a 0xF7 octet.
Alternatively, a SysEx command may be encoded as multiple segments.
The command is divided into two or more SysEx command segments; each
segment is encoded in its own MIDI Command field in the MIDI list.
The payload format supports segmentation in order to encode SysEx
commands that encode information in the temporal pattern of data
octets. By encoding these commands as a series of segments, each
data octet may be associated with a distinct delta time.
Segmentation also supports the coding of large SysEx commands across
several packets.
To segment a SysEx command, first partition its data octet list into
two or more sublists. The last sublist MAY be empty (i.e., contain
no octets); all other sublists MUST contain at least one data octet.
To complete the segmentation, add the status octets defined in Figure
5 to the head and tail of the first, last, and any "middle" sublists.
Figure 6 shows example segmentations of a SysEx command.
A sender MAY cancel a segmented SysEx command transmission that is in
progress by sending the "cancel" sublist shown in Figure 5. A
"cancel" sublist MAY follow a "first" or "middle" sublist in the
transmission but MUST NOT follow a "last" sublist. The cancel MUST
be empty (thus, 0xF7 0xF4 is the only legal cancel sublist).
The cancellation feature is needed because Appendix C.1 defines
configuration tools that let session parties exclude certain SysEx
commands in the stream. Senders that transcode a MIDI source onto an
RTP MIDI stream under these constraints have the responsibility of
excluding undesired commands from the RTP MIDI stream.
The cancellation feature lets a sender start the transmission of a
command before the MIDI source has sent the entire command. If a
sender determines that the command whose transmission is in progress
should not appear on the RTP stream, it cancels the command. Without
a method for cancelling a SysEx command transmission, senders would
be forced to use a high-latency store-and-forward approach to
transcoding SysEx commands onto RTP MIDI packets, in order to
validate each SysEx command before transmission.
The recommended receiver reaction to a cancellation depends on the
capabilities of the receiver. For example, a sound synthesizer that
is directly parsing RTP MIDI packets and rendering them to audio will
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be aware of the fact that SysEx commands may be cancelled in RTP
MIDI. These receivers SHOULD detect a SysEx cancellation in the MIDI
list and act as if they had never received the SysEx command.
As a second example, a synthesizer may be receiving MIDI data from an
RTP MIDI stream via a MIDI DIN cable (or a software API emulation of
a MIDI DIN cable). In this case, an RTP-MIDI-aware system receives
the RTP MIDI stream and transcodes it onto the MIDI DIN cable (or its
emulation). Upon the receipt of the cancel sublist, the RTP-MIDI-
aware transcoder might have already sent the first part of the SysEx
command on the MIDI DIN cable to the receiver.
Unfortunately, the MIDI DIN cable protocol cannot directly code
"cancel SysEx in progress" semantics. However, MIDI DIN cable
receivers begin SysEx processing after the complete command arrives.
The receiver checks to see if it recognizes the command (coded in the
first few octets) and then checks to see if the command is the
correct length. Thus, in practice, a transcoder can cancel a SysEx
command by sending an 0xF7 to (prematurely) end the SysEx command --
the receiver will detect the incorrect command length and discard the
command.
Appendix C.1 defines configuration tools that may be used to prohibit
SysEx command cancellation.
The relative ordering of SysEx command segments in a MIDI list must
match the relative ordering of the sublists in the original SysEx
command. By default, commands other than System Real-Time MIDI
commands MUST NOT appear between SysEx command segments (Appendix C.1
defines configuration tools to change this default to let other
commands types appear between segments). If the command segments of
a SysEx command are placed in the MIDI lists of two or more RTP
packets, the segment ordering rules apply to the concatenation of all
affected MIDI lists.
-----------------------------------------------------------
| Sublist Position | Head Status Octet | Tail Status Octet |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| first | 0xF0 | 0xF0 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| middle | 0xF7 | 0xF0 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| last | 0xF7 | 0xF7 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
| cancel | 0xF7 | 0xF4 |
-----------------------------------------------------------
Figure 5 -- Command Segmentation Status Octets
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[MIDI] permits 0xF7 octets that are not part of a (0xF0, 0xF7) pair
to appear on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable. Unpaired 0xF7 octets have no
semantic meaning in MIDI apart from cancelling running status.
Unpaired 0xF7 octets MUST NOT appear in the MIDI list of the MIDI
Command section. We impose this restriction to avoid interference
with the command segmentation coding defined in Figure 5.
SysEx commands carried on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable may use the "dropped
0xF7" construction [MIDI]. In this coding method, the 0xF7 octet is
dropped from the end of the SysEx command, and the status octet of
the next MIDI command acts both to terminate the SysEx command and
start the next command. To encode this construction in the payload
format, follow these steps:
o Determine the appropriate delta times for the SysEx command and
the command that follows the SysEx command.
o Insert the "dropped" 0xF7 octet at the end of the SysEx command to
form the standard SysEx syntax.
o Code both commands into the MIDI list using the rules above.
o Replace the 0xF7 octet that terminates the verbatim SysEx encoding
or the last segment of the segmented SysEx encoding with a 0xF5
octet. This substitution informs the receiver of the original
"dropped 0xF7" coding.
[MIDI] reserves the undefined System Common commands 0xF4 and 0xF5
and the undefined System Real-Time commands 0xF9 and 0xFD for future
use. By default, undefined commands MUST NOT appear in a MIDI
Command field in the MIDI list, with the exception of the 0xF5 octets
used to code the "dropped 0xF7" construction and the 0xF4 octets used
by SysEx "cancel" sublists.
During session configuration, a stream may be customized to transport
undefined commands (Appendix C.1). For this case, we now define how
senders encode undefined commands in the MIDI list.
An undefined System Real-Time command MUST be coded using the System
Real-Time rules.
If the undefined System Common commands are put to use in a future
version of [MIDI], the command will begin with an 0xF4 or 0xF5 status
octet, followed by an arbitrary number of data octets (i.e., zero or
more data bytes). To encode these commands, senders MUST terminate
the command with an 0xF7 octet and place the modified command into
the MIDI Command field.
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Unfortunately, non-compliant uses of the undefined System Common
commands may appear in MIDI implementations. To model these
commands, we assume that the command begins with an 0xF4 or 0xF5
status octet, followed by zero or more data octets, followed by zero
or more trailing 0xF7 status octets. To encode the command, senders
MUST first remove all trailing 0xF7 status octets from the command.
Then, senders MUST terminate the command with an 0xF7 octet and place
the modified command into the MIDI Command field.
Note that we include the trailing octets in our model as a cautionary
measure: if such commands appeared in a non-compliant use of an
undefined System Common command, an RTP MIDI encoding of the command
that did not remove trailing octets could be mistaken for an encoding
of the "middle" or "last" sublist of a segmented SysEx command
(Figure 5) under certain packet loss conditions.
Original SysEx command:
0xF0 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0xF7
A two-segment segmentation:
0xF0 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0xF0
0xF7 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0xF7
A different two-segment segmentation:
0xF0 0x01 0xF0
0xF7 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0xF7
A three-segment segmentation:
0xF0 0x01 0x02 0xF0
0xF7 0x03 0x04 0xF0
0xF7 0x05 0x06 0x07 0x08 0xF7
The segmentation with the largest number of segments:
0xF0 0x01 0xF0
0xF7 0x02 0xF0
0xF7 0x03 0xF0
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0xF7 0x04 0xF0
0xF7 0x05 0xF0
0xF7 0x06 0xF0
0xF7 0x07 0xF0
0xF7 0x08 0xF0
0xF7 0xF7
Figure 6 -- Example Segmentations
4. The Recovery Journal System
The recovery journal is the default resiliency tool for unreliable
transport. In this section, we normatively define the roles that
senders and receivers play in the recovery journal system.
MIDI is a fragile code. A single lost command in a MIDI command
stream may produce an artifact in the rendered performance. We
normatively classify rendering artifacts into two categories:
o Transient artifacts. Transient artifacts produce immediate but
short-term glitches in the performance. For example, a lost
NoteOn (0x9) command produces a transient artifact: one note fails
to play, but the artifact does not extend beyond the end of that
note.
o Indefinite artifacts. Indefinite artifacts produce long-lasting
errors in the rendered performance. For example, a lost NoteOff
(0x8) command may produce an indefinite artifact: the note that
should have been ended by the lost NoteOff command may sustain
indefinitely. As a second example, the loss of a Control Change
(0xB) command for controller number 7 (Channel Volume) may produce
an indefinite artifact: after the loss, all notes on the channel
may play too softly or too loudly.
The purpose of the recovery journal system is to satisfy the recovery
journal mandate: the MIDI performance rendered from an RTP MIDI
stream sent over unreliable transport MUST NOT contain indefinite
artifacts.
The recovery journal system does not use packet retransmission to
satisfy this mandate. Instead, each packet includes a special
section called the recovery journal.
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The recovery journal codes the history of the stream back to an
earlier packet called the checkpoint packet. The range of coverage
for the journal is called the checkpoint history. The recovery
journal codes the information necessary to recover from the loss of
an arbitrary number of packets in the checkpoint history. Appendix
A.1 normatively defines the checkpoint history.
When a receiver detects a packet loss, it compares its own knowledge
about the history of the stream with the history information coded in
the recovery journal of the packet that ends the loss event. By
noting the differences in these two versions of the past, a receiver
is able to transform all indefinite artifacts in the rendered
performance into transient artifacts by executing MIDI commands to
repair the stream.
We now state the normative role for senders in the recovery journal
system.
Senders prepare a recovery journal for every packet in the stream.
In doing so, senders choose the checkpoint packet identity for the
journal. Senders make this choice by applying a sending policy.
Appendix C.2.2 normatively defines three sending policies: "closed-
loop", "open-loop", and "anchor".
By default, senders MUST use the closed-loop sending policy. If the
session description overrides this default policy by using the
parameter j_update defined in Appendix C.2.2, senders MUST use the
specified policy.
After choosing the checkpoint packet identity for a packet, the
sender creates the recovery journal. By default, this journal MUST
conform to the normative semantics in Section 5 and Appendices A and
B in this memo. In Appendix C.2.3, we define parameters that modify
the normative semantics for recovery journals. If the session
description uses these parameters, the journal created by the sender
MUST conform to the modified semantics.
Next, we state the normative role for receivers in the recovery
journal system.
A receiver MUST detect each RTP sequence number break in a stream.
If the sequence number break is due to a packet loss event (as
defined in [RFC3550]), the receiver MUST repair all indefinite
artifacts in the rendered MIDI performance caused by the loss. If
the sequence number break is due to an out-of-order packet (as
defined in [RFC3550]), the receiver MUST NOT take actions that
introduce indefinite artifacts (ignoring the out-of-order packet is a
safe option).
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Receivers take special precautions when entering or exiting a
session. A receiver MUST process the first received packet in a
stream as if it were a packet that ends a loss event. Upon exiting a
session, a receiver MUST ensure that the rendered MIDI performance
does not end with indefinite artifacts.
Receivers are under no obligation to perform indefinite artifact
repairs at the moment a packet arrives. A receiver that uses a
playout buffer may choose to wait until the moment of rendering
before processing the recovery journal, as the "lost" packet may be a
late packet that arrives in time to use.
Next, we state the normative role for the creator of the session
description in the recovery journal system. The sender, the
receivers, and other parties may take part in creating or approving
the session description, depending on the application.
A session description that specifies the default closed-loop sending
policy and the default recovery journal semantics satisfies the
recovery journal mandate. However, these default behaviors may not
be appropriate for all sessions. If the creators of a session
description use the parameters defined in Appendix C.2 to override
these defaults, the creators MUST ensure that the parameters define a
system that satisfies the recovery journal mandate.
Finally, we note that this memo does not specify sender or receiver
recovery journal algorithms. Implementations are free to use any
algorithm that conforms to the requirements in this section. The
non-normative [RFC4696] discusses sender and receiver algorithm
design.
5. Recovery Journal Format
This section introduces the structure of the recovery journal and
defines the bitfields of recovery journal headers. Appendices A and
B complete the bitfield definition of the recovery journal.
The recovery journal has a three-level structure:
o Top-level header.
o Channel and system journal headers. These headers encode recovery
information for a single voice channel (channel journal) or for
all system commands (system journal).
o Chapters. Chapters describe recovery information for a single
MIDI command type.
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Figure 7 shows the top-level structure of the recovery journal. The
recovery journal consists of a 3-octet header followed by an optional
system journal (labeled S-journal in Figure 7) and an optional list
of channel journals. Figure 8 shows the recovery journal header
format.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Recovery journal header | S-journal ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Channel journals ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 7 -- Top-Level Recovery Journal Format
0 1 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|Y|A|H|TOTCHAN| Checkpoint Packet Seqnum |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 8 -- Recovery Journal Header
If the Y header bit is set to 1, the system journal appears in the
recovery journal, directly following the recovery journal header.
If the A header bit is set to 1, the recovery journal ends with a
list of (TOTCHAN + 1) channel journals (the 4-bit TOTCHAN header
field is interpreted as an unsigned integer).
A MIDI channel MAY be represented by (at most) one channel journal in
a recovery journal. Channel journals MUST appear in the recovery
journal in ascending channel-number order.
If A and Y are both zero, the recovery journal only contains its
3-octet header and is considered to be an "empty" journal.
The S (single-packet loss) bit appears in most recovery journal
structures, including the recovery journal header. The S bit helps
receivers efficiently parse the recovery journal in the common case
of the loss of a single packet. Appendix A.1 defines S-bit
semantics.
The H bit indicates if MIDI channels in the stream have been
configured to use the enhanced Chapter C encoding (Appendix A.3.3).
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By default, the payload format does not use enhanced Chapter C
encoding. In this default case, the H bit MUST be set to 0 for all
packets in the stream.
If the stream has been configured so that controller numbers for one
or more MIDI channels use enhanced Chapter C encoding, the H bit MUST
be set to 1 in all packets in the stream. In Appendix C.2.3, we show
how to configure a stream to use enhanced Chapter C encoding.
The 16-bit Checkpoint Packet Seqnum header field codes the sequence
number of the checkpoint packet for this journal, in network byte
order (big-endian). The choice of the checkpoint packet sets the
depth of the checkpoint history for the journal (defined in Appendix
A.1).
Receivers may use the Checkpoint Packet Seqnum field of the packet
that ends a loss event to verify that the journal checkpoint history
covers the entire loss event. The checkpoint history covers the loss
event if the Checkpoint Packet Seqnum field is less than or equal to
one plus the highest RTP sequence number previously received on the
stream (modulo 2^16).
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| CHAN |H| LENGTH |P|C|M|W|N|E|T|A| Chapters ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 9 -- Channel Journal Format
Figure 9 shows the structure of a channel journal: a 3-octet header
followed by a list of leaf elements called channel chapters. A
channel journal encodes information about MIDI commands on the MIDI
channel coded by the 4-bit CHAN header field. Note that CHAN uses
the same bit encoding as the channel nibble in MIDI Channel Messages
(the cccc field in Figure E.1 of Appendix E).
The 10-bit LENGTH field codes the length of the channel journal. The
semantics for LENGTH fields are uniform throughout the recovery
journal and are defined in Appendix A.1.
The third octet of the channel journal header is the Table of
Contents (TOC) of the channel journal. The TOC is a set of bits that
encode the presence of a chapter in the journal. Each chapter
contains information about a certain class of MIDI channel command:
o Chapter P: MIDI Program Change (0xC)
o Chapter C: MIDI Control Change (0xB)
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o Chapter M: MIDI Parameter System (part of 0xB)
o Chapter W: MIDI Pitch Wheel (0xE)
o Chapter N: MIDI NoteOff (0x8), NoteOn (0x9)
o Chapter E: MIDI Note Command Extras (0x8, 0x9)
o Chapter T: MIDI Channel Aftertouch (0xD)
o Chapter A: MIDI Poly Aftertouch (0xA)
Chapters appear in a list following the header, in order of their
appearance in the TOC. Appendices A.2-A.9 describe the bitfield
format for each chapter and define the conditions under which a
chapter type MUST appear in the recovery journal. If any chapter
types are required for a channel, an associated channel journal MUST
appear in the recovery journal.
The H bit indicates if controller numbers on a MIDI channel have been
configured to use the enhanced Chapter C encoding (Appendix A.3.3).
By default, controller numbers on a MIDI channel do not use enhanced
Chapter C encoding. In this default case, the H bit MUST be set to 0
for all channel journal headers for the channel in the recovery
journal, for all packets in the stream.
However, if at least one controller number for a MIDI channel has
been configured to use the enhanced Chapter C encoding, the H bit for
its channel journal MUST be set to 1, for all packets in the stream.
In Appendix C.2.3, we show how to configure a controller number to
use enhanced Chapter C encoding.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|D|V|Q|F|X| LENGTH | System chapters ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 10 -- System Journal Format
Figure 10 shows the structure of the system journal: a 2-octet header
followed by a list of system chapters. Each chapter codes
information about a specific class of MIDI system commands:
o Chapter D: Song Select (0xF3), Tune Request (0xF6), Reset (0xFF),
undefined system commands (0xF4, 0xF5, 0xF9, 0xFD)
o Chapter V: Active Sense (0xFE)
o Chapter Q: Sequencer State (0xF2, 0xF8, 0xF9, 0xFA, 0xFB, 0xFC)
o Chapter F: MIDI Time Code (MTC) Tape Position (0xF1, 0xF0 0x7F
0xcc 0x01 0x01)
o Chapter X: System Exclusive (all other 0xF0)
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The 10-bit LENGTH field codes the size of the system journal and
conforms to semantics described in Appendix A.1.
The D, V, Q, F, and X header bits form a Table of Contents (TOC) for
the system journal. A TOC bit that is set to 1 codes the presence of
a chapter in the journal. Chapters appear in a list following the
header, in the order of their appearance in the TOC.
Appendix B describes the bitfield format for the system chapters and
defines the conditions under which a chapter type MUST appear in the
recovery journal. If any system chapter type is required to appear
in the recovery journal, the system journal MUST appear in the
recovery journal.
6. Session Description Protocol
RTP does not perform session management. Instead, RTP works together
with session management tools, such as the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP, [RFC3261]) and the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP,
[RFC2326]).
RTP payload formats define media type parameters for use in session
management (for example, this memo defines rtp-midi as the media type
for native RTP MIDI streams).
In most cases, session management tools use the media type parameters
via another standard, the Session Description Protocol (SDP,
[RFC4566]).
SDP is a textual format for specifying session descriptions. Session
descriptions specify the network transport and media encoding for RTP
sessions. Session management tools coordinate the exchange of
session descriptions between participants ("parties").
Some session management tools use SDP to negotiate details of media
transport (network addresses, ports, etc.). We refer to this use of
SDP as "negotiated usage". One example of negotiated usage is the
Offer/Answer protocol ([RFC3264] and Appendix C.7.2 in this memo) as
used by SIP.
Other session management tools use SDP to declare the media encoding
for the session but use other techniques to negotiate network
transport. We refer to this use of SDP as "declarative usage". One
example of declarative usage is RTSP ([RFC2326] and Appendix C.7.1 in
this memo).
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Below, we show session description examples for native (Section 6.1)
and mpeg4-generic (Section 6.2) streams. In Section 6.3, we
introduce session configuration tools that may be used to customize
streams.
6.1. Session Descriptions for Native Streams
The session description below defines a unicast UDP RTP session (via
a media ("m=") line) whose sole payload type (96) is mapped to a
minimal native RTP MIDI stream.
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
The rtpmap attribute line uses the rtp-midi media type to specify an
RTP MIDI native stream. The clock rate specified on the rtpmap line
(in the example above, 44100 Hz) sets the scaling for the RTP
timestamp header field (see Section 2.1 and also [RFC3550]).
Note that this document does not specify a default clock rate value
for RTP MIDI. When RTP MIDI is used with SDP, parties MUST use the
rtpmap line to communicate the clock rate. Guidance for selecting
the RTP MIDI clock rate value appears in Section 2.1.
We consider the RTP MIDI stream shown above to be "minimal" because
the session description does not customize the stream with
parameters. Without such customization, a native RTP MIDI stream has
these characteristics:
1. If the stream uses unreliable transport (unicast UDP, multicast
UDP, etc.), the recovery journal system is in use, and the RTP
payload contains both the MIDI command section and the journal
section. If the stream uses reliable transport (such as TCP),
the stream does not use journalling, and the payload contains
only the MIDI command section (Section 2.2).
2. If the stream uses the recovery journal system, the recovery
journal system uses the default sending policy and the default
journal semantics (Section 4).
3. In the MIDI command section of the payload, command timestamps
use the default comex semantics (Section 3).
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4. The recommended temporal duration ("media time") of an RTP packet
ranges from 0 to 200 ms, and the RTP timestamp difference between
sequential packets in the stream may be arbitrarily large
(Section 2.1).
5. If more than one minimal rtp-midi stream appears in a session,
the MIDI name spaces for these streams are independent: channel 1
in the first stream does not reference the same MIDI channel as
channel 1 in the second stream (see Appendix C.5 for a discussion
of the independence of minimal rtp-midi streams).
6. The rendering method for the stream is not specified. What the
receiver "does" with a minimal native MIDI stream is out of the
scope of this memo. For example, in content creation
environments, a user may manually configure client software to
render the stream with a specific software package.
As is standard in RTP, RTP sessions managed by SIP are sendrecv by
default (parties send and receive MIDI), and RTP sessions managed by
RTSP are recvonly by default (server sends and client receives).
In sendrecv RTP MIDI sessions for the session description shown
above, the 16 voice channel + systems MIDI name space is unique for
each sender. Thus, in a two-party session, the voice channel 0 sent
by one party is distinct from the voice channel 0 sent by the other
party.
This behavior corresponds to what occurs when two MIDI 1.0 DIN
devices are cross-connected with two MIDI cables (one cable routing
MIDI Out from the first device into MIDI In of the second device and
a second cable routing MIDI In from the first device into MIDI Out of
the second device). We define this "association" formally in Section
2.1.
MIDI 1.0 DIN networks may be configured in a "party-line" multicast
topology. For these networks, the MIDI protocol itself provides
tools for addressing specific devices in transactions on a multicast
network and for device discovery. Thus, apart from providing a 1-to-
many forward path and a many-to-1 reverse path, IETF protocols do not
need to provide any special support for MIDI multicast networking.
6.2. Session Descriptions for mpeg4-generic Streams
An mpeg4-generic [RFC3640] RTP MIDI stream uses an MPEG 4 Audio
Object Type to render MIDI into audio. Three Audio Object Types
accept MIDI input:
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o General MIDI (Audio Object Type ID 15), based on the General MIDI
rendering standard [MIDI].
o Wavetable Synthesis (Audio Object Type ID 14), based on the
Downloadable Sounds Level 2 (DLS 2) rendering standard [DLS2].
o Main Synthetic (Audio Object Type ID 13), based on Structured
Audio and the programming language SAOL [MPEGSA]. The name of the
language (SAOL) is an acronym that expands to Structured Audio
Orechestra Language.
The primary service of an mpeg4-generic stream is to code Access
Units (AUs). We define the mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI AU as the MIDI
payload shown in Figure 1 of Section 2.1 of this memo: a MIDI command
section optionally followed by a journal section.
Exactly one RTP MIDI AU MUST be mapped to one mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI
packet. The mpeg4-generic options for placing several AUs in an RTP
packet MUST NOT be used with RTP MIDI. The mpeg4-generic options for
fragmenting and interleaving AUs MUST NOT be used with RTP MIDI. The
mpeg4-generic RTP packet payload (Figure 1 in [RFC3640]) MUST contain
empty AU Header and Auxiliary sections. These rules yield
mpeg4-generic packets that are structurally identical to native RTP
MIDI packets, an essential property for the correct operation of the
payload format.
The session description that follows defines a unicast UDP RTP
session (via a media ("m=") line) whose sole payload type (96) is
mapped to a minimal mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI stream. This example uses
the General MIDI Audio Object Type under Synthesis Profile @ Level 2.
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP6 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; profile-level-id=12;
config=7A0A0000001A4D546864000000060000000100604D54726B0000
000600FF2F000
(The a=fmtp line has been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate memo
formatting restrictions; it comprises a single line in SDP.)
The fmtp attribute line codes the four parameters (streamtype, mode,
profile-level-id, and config) that are required in all mpeg4-generic
session descriptions [RFC3640]. For RTP MIDI streams, the streamtype
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parameter MUST be set to 5, the mode parameter MUST be set to rtp-
midi, and the profile-level-id parameter MUST be set to the MPEG-4
Profile Level for the stream. For the Synthesis Profile, legal
profile-level-id values are 11, 12, and 13, coding low (11), medium
(12), or high (13) decoder computational complexity, as defined by
MPEG conformance tests.
In a minimal RTP MIDI session description, the config value MUST be a
hexadecimal encoding [RFC3640] of the AudioSpecificConfig data block
[MPEGAUDIO] for the stream. AudioSpecificConfig encodes the Audio
Object Type for the stream and also encodes initialization data (SAOL
programs, DLS 2 wave tables, etc.). Standard MIDI Files encoded in
AudioSpecificConfig in a minimal session description MUST be ignored
by the receiver.
Receivers determine the rendering algorithm for the session by
interpreting the first 5 bits of AudioSpecificConfig as an unsigned
integer that codes the Audio Object Type. In our example above, the
5 bits are coded within the first two nibbles ("7A") of the config
string. The Audio Object Type coded within "7A" is Audio Object Type
15 (General MIDI). In Appendix E.4, we derive the config string
value in the session description shown above; the starting point of
the derivation is the MPEG bitstreams defined in [MPEGSA] and
[MPEGAUDIO].
We consider the stream to be "minimal" because the session
description does not customize the stream through the use of
parameters, other than the 4 required mpeg4-generic parameters
described above. In Section 6.1, we describe the behavior of a
minimal native stream as a numbered list of characteristics. Items
1-4 on that list also describe the minimal mpeg4-generic stream, but
items 5 and 6 require restatements, as listed below:
5. If more than one minimal mpeg4-generic stream appears in a
session, each stream uses an independent instance of the Audio
Object Type coded in the config parameter value.
6. A minimal mpeg4-generic stream encodes the AudioSpecificConfig as
an inline hexadecimal constant. If a session description is sent
over UDP, it may be impossible to transport large
AudioSpecificConfig blocks within the Maximum Transmission Unit
(MTU) of the underlying network (for Ethernet, the MTU is 1500
octets). In some cases, the AudioSpecificConfig block may exceed
the maximum size of the UDP packet itself.
The comments in Section 6.1 on SIP and RTSP stream directional
defaults, sendrecv MIDI channel usage, and MIDI 1.0 DIN multicast
networks also apply to mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI sessions.
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In sendrecv sessions, each party's session description MUST use
identical values for the mpeg4-generic parameters (including the
required streamtype, mode, profile-level-id, and config parameters).
As a consequence, each party uses an identically configured MPEG 4
Audio Object Type to render MIDI commands into audio. The preamble
to Appendix C discusses a way to create "virtual sendrecv" sessions
that do not have this restriction.
6.3. Parameters
This section introduces parameters for session configuration for RTP
MIDI streams. In session descriptions, parameters modify the
semantics of a payload type. Parameters are specified on an fmtp
attribute line. See the session description example in Section 6.2
for an example of a fmtp attribute line.
The parameters add features to the minimal streams described in
Sections 6.1 and 6.2 and support several types of services:
o Stream subsetting. By default, all MIDI commands that are legal
to appear on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable may appear in an RTP MIDI
stream. The cm_unused parameter overrides this default by
prohibiting certain commands from appearing in the stream. The
cm_used parameter is used in conjunction with cm_unused to
simplify the specification of complex exclusion rules. We
describe cm_unused and cm_used in Appendix C.1.
o Journal customization. The j_sec and j_update parameters
configure the use of the journal section. The ch_default,
ch_never, and ch_anchor parameters configure the semantics of the
recovery journal chapters. These parameters are described in
Appendix C.2 and override the default stream behaviors 1 and 2
(listed in Section 6.1 and referenced in Section 6.2).
o MIDI command timestamp semantics. The tsmode, octpos, mperiod,
and linerate parameters customize the semantics of timestamps in
the MIDI command section. These parameters let RTP MIDI
accurately encode the implicit time coding of MIDI 1.0 DIN cables.
These parameters are described in Appendix C.3 and override
default stream behavior 3 (listed in Section 6.1 and referenced in
Section 6.2).
o Media time. The rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime parameters define the
temporal duration ("media time") of an RTP MIDI packet. The
guardtime parameter sets the minimum sending rate of stream
packets. These parameters are described in Appendix C.4 and
override default stream behavior 4 (listed in Section 6.1 and
referenced in Section 6.2).
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o Stream description. The musicport parameter labels the MIDI name
space of RTP streams in a multimedia session. Musicport is
described in Appendix C.5. The musicport parameter overrides
default stream behavior 5 (in Sections 6.1 and 6.2).
o MIDI rendering. Several parameters specify the MIDI rendering
method of a stream. These parameters are described in Appendix
C.6 and override default stream behavior 6 (in Sections 6.1 and
6.2).
In Appendix C.7, we specify interoperability guidelines for two RTP
MIDI application areas: content streaming using RTSP (Appendix C.7.1)
and network musical performance using SIP (Appendix C.7.2).
7. Extensibility
The payload format defined in this memo exclusively encodes all
commands that may legally appear on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable.
Many worthy uses of MIDI over RTP do not fall within the narrow scope
of the payload format. For example, the payload format does not
support the direct transport of Standard MIDI File (SMF) meta-event
and metric timing data. As a second example, the payload format does
not define transport tools for user-defined commands (apart from
tools to support System Exclusive commands [MIDI]).
The payload format does not provide an extension mechanism to support
new features of this nature, by design. Instead, we encourage the
development of new payload formats for specialized musical
applications. The IETF session management tools [RFC3264] [RFC2326]
support codec negotiation, to facilitate the use of new payload
formats in a backward-compatible way.
However, the payload format does provide several extensibility tools,
which we list below:
o Journalling. As described in Appendix C.2, new token values for
the j_sec and j_update parameters may be defined in IETF
Standards-Track documents. This mechanism supports the design of
new journal formats and the definition of new journal sending
policies.
o Rendering. The payload format may be extended to support new MIDI
renderers (Appendix C.6.2). Certain general aspects of the RTP
MIDI rendering process may also be extended, via the definition of
new token values for the render (Appendix C.6) and smf_info
(Appendix C.6.4.1) parameters.
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o Undefined commands. [MIDI] reserves 4 MIDI system commands for
future use (0xF4, 0xF5, 0xF9, 0xFD). If updates to [MIDI] define
the reserved commands, IETF Standards-Track documents may be
defined to provide resiliency support for the commands. Opaque
LEGAL fields appear in System Chapter D for this purpose (Appendix
B.1.1).
A final form of extensibility involves the inclusion of the payload
format in framework documents. Framework documents describe how to
combine protocols to form a platform for interoperable applications.
For example, a stage and studio framework might define how to use SIP
[RFC3261], RTSP [RFC2326], SDP [RFC4566], and RTP [RFC3550] to
support media networking for professional audio equipment and
electronic musical instruments.
8. Congestion Control
The RTP congestion control requirements defined in [RFC3550] apply to
RTP MIDI sessions, and implementors should carefully read the
congestion control section in [RFC3550]. As noted in [RFC3550], all
transport protocols used on the Internet need to address congestion
control in some way, and RTP is not an exception.
In addition, the congestion control requirements defined in [RFC3551]
apply to RTP MIDI sessions run under applicable profiles. The basic
congestion control requirement defined in [RFC3551] is that RTP
sessions that use UDP transport should monitor packet loss (via RTCP
or other means) to ensure that the RTP stream competes fairly with
TCP flows that share the network.
Finally, RTP MIDI has congestion control issues that are unique for
an audio RTP payload format. In applications such as network musical
performance [NMP], the packet rate is linked to the gestural rate of
a human performer. Senders MUST monitor the MIDI command source for
patterns that result in excessive packet rates and take actions
during RTP transcoding to reduce the RTP packet rate. [RFC4696]
offers implementation guidance on this issue.
9. Security Considerations
Implementors should carefully read the Security Considerations
sections of the RTP [RFC3550], AVP [RFC3551], and other RTP profile
documents, as the issues discussed in these sections directly apply
to RTP MIDI streams. Implementors should also review the Secure
Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP, [RFC3711]), an RTP profile that
addresses the security issues discussed in [RFC3550] and [RFC3551].
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Here, we discuss security issues that are unique to the RTP MIDI
payload format.
When using RTP MIDI, authentication of incoming RTP and RTCP packets
is RECOMMENDED. Per-packet authentication may be provided by SRTP or
by other means. Without the use of authentication, attackers could
forge MIDI commands into an ongoing stream, damaging speakers and
eardrums. An attacker could also craft RTP and RTCP packets to
exploit known bugs in the client and take effective control of a
client machine.
Session management tools (such as SIP [RFC3261]) SHOULD use
authentication during the transport of all session descriptions
containing RTP MIDI media streams. For SIP, the Security
Considerations section in [RFC3261] provides an overview of possible
authentication mechanisms. RTP MIDI session descriptions should use
authentication because the session descriptions may code
initialization data using the parameters described in Appendix C. If
an attacker inserts bogus initialization data into a session
description, he can corrupt the session or forge an client attack.
Session descriptions may also code renderer initialization data by
reference, via the url (Appendix C.6.3) and smf_url (Appendix
C.6.4.2) parameters. If the coded URL is spoofed, both session and
client are open to attack, even if the session description itself is
authenticated. Therefore, URLs specified in url and smf_url
parameters SHOULD use [RFC2818].
Section 2.1 allows streams sent by a party in two RTP sessions to
have the same SSRC value and the same RTP timestamp initialization
value, under certain circumstances. Normally, these values are
randomly chosen for each stream in a session, to make plaintext
guessing harder to do if the payloads are encrypted. Thus, Section
2.1 weakens this aspect of RTP security.
10. Acknowledgements
We thank the networking, media compression, and computer music
community members who have commented or contributed to the effort,
including Kurt B, Cynthia Bruyns, Steve Casner, Paul Davis, Robin
Davies, Joanne Dow, Tobias Erichsen, Roni Even, Nicolas Falquet,
Adrian Farrel, Dominique Fober, Philippe Gentric, Michael Godfrey,
Chris Grigg, Todd Hager, Alfred Hoenes, Russ Housley, Michel Jullian,
Phil Kerr, Young-Kwon Lim, Jessica Little, Jan van der Meer, Alexey
Melnikov, Colin Perkins, Charlie Richmond, Herbie Robinson, Dan
Romascanu, Larry Rowe, Eric Scheirer, Dave Singer, Martijn Sipkema,
Robert Sparks, William Stewart, Kent Terry, Sean Turner, Magnus
Westerlund, Tom White, Jim Wright, Doug Wyatt, and Giorgio Zoia. We
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also thank the members of the San Francisco Bay Area music and audio
community for creating the context for the work, including Don
Buchla, Chris Chafe, Richard Duda, Dan Ellis, Adrian Freed, Ben Gold,
Jaron Lanier, Roger Linn, Richard Lyon, Dana Massie, Max Mathews,
Keith McMillen, Carver Mead, Nelson Morgan, Tom Oberheim, Malcolm
Slaney, Dave Smith, Julius Smith, David Wessel, and Matt Wright.
11. IANA Considerations
The bulk of this section is a verbatim reproduction of the IANA
considerations that appear in Section 11 of [RFC4695]. Preceding
this reproduction, we list several issues concerning this memo that
are related to the IANA considerations, as follows:
o All existing IANA references to [RFC4695] have been deleted, and
replaced with references to this memo. In addition, a reference
to this memo has been added to the audio/mpeg4-generic MIME type
registration.
o In Section 11.3, a sentence has been added to the Encoding
Considerations asc Media Type Registration: "Disk files that store
this data object use the file extension ".acn"".
The reproduction of the [RFC4695] IANA considerations section appears
directly below.
This section makes a series of requests to IANA. The IANA has
completed registration/assignments of the below requests.
The subsections that follow hold the actual, detailed requests. All
registrations in this section are in the IETF tree and follow the
rules of [RFC4288] and [RFC4855], as appropriate.
In Section 11.1, we request the registration of a new media type:
audio/rtp-midi. Paired with this request is a request for a
repository for new values for several parameters associated with
audio/rtp-midi. We request this repository in Section 11.1.1.
In Section 11.2, we request the registration of a new value (rtp-
midi) for the mode parameter of the mpeg4-generic media type. The
mpeg4-generic media type is defined in [RFC3640], and [RFC3640]
defines a repository for the mode parameter. However, we believe we
are the first to request the registration of a mode value, so we
believe the registry for mode has not yet been created by IANA.
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Paired with our mode parameter value request for mpeg4-generic is a
request for a repository for new values for several parameters we
have defined for use with the rtp-midi mode value. We request this
repository in Section 11.2.1.
In Section 11.3, we request the registration of a new media type:
audio/asc. No repository request is associated with this request.
11.1. rtp-midi Media Type Registration
This section requests the registration of the rtp-midi subtype for
the audio media type. We request the registration of the parameters
listed in the "optional parameters" section below (both the "non-
extensible parameters" and the "extensible parameters" lists). We
also request the creation of repositories for the "extensible
parameters"; the details of this request appear in Section 11.1.1.
Media type name:
audio
Subtype name:
rtp-midi
Required parameters:
rate: The RTP timestamp clock rate. See Sections 2.1 and 6.1
for usage details.
Optional parameters:
Non-extensible parameters:
ch_anchor: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
ch_default: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
ch_never: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
cm_unused: See Appendix C.1 for usage details.
cm_used: See Appendix C.1 for usage details.
chanmask: See Appendix C.6.4.3 for usage details.
cid: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
guardtime: See Appendix C.4.2 for usage details.
inline: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
linerate: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
mperiod: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
multimode: See Appendix C.6.1 for usage details.
musicport: See Appendix C.5 for usage details.
octpos: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
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rinit: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
rtp_maxptime: See Appendix C.4.1 for usage details.
rtp_ptime: See Appendix C.4.1 for usage details.
smf_cid: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
smf_inline: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
smf_url: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
tsmode: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
url: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
Extensible parameters:
j_sec: See Appendix C.2.1 for usage details. See
Section 11.1.1 for repository details.
j_update: See Appendix C.2.2 for usage details. See
Section 11.1.1 for repository details.
render: See Appendix C.6 for usage details. See
Section 11.1.1 for repository details.
subrender: See Appendix C.6.2 for usage details. See
Section 11.1.1 for repository details.
smf_info: See Appendix C.6.4.1 for usage details. See
Section 11.1.1 for repository details.
Encoding considerations:
The format for this type is framed and binary.
Restrictions on usage:
This type is only defined for real-time transfers of MIDI
streams via RTP. Stored-file semantics for rtp-midi may
be defined in the future.
Security considerations:
See Section 9 of this memo.
Interoperability considerations:
None.
Published specification:
This memo and [MIDI] serve as the normative specification. In
addition, references [NMP], [GRAME], and [RFC4696] provide
non-normative implementation guidance.
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Applications that use this media type:
Audio content-creation hardware, such as MIDI controller piano
keyboards and MIDI audio synthesizers. Audio content-creation
software, such as music sequencers, digital audio workstations,
and soft synthesizers. Computer operating systems, for network
support of MIDI Application Programmer Interfaces. Content
distribution servers and terminals may use this media type for
low bitrate music coding.
Additional information:
None.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Intended usage:
COMMON.
Author:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Change controller:
IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group delegated
from the IESG.
11.1.1. Repository Request for audio/rtp-midi
For the rtp-midi subtype, we request the creation of repositories for
extensions to the following parameters (which are those listed as
"extensible parameters" in Section 11.1).
j_sec:
Registrations for this repository may only occur
via an IETF Standards-Track document. Appendix C.2.1
of this memo describes appropriate registrations for this
repository.
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"none": Defined in Appendix C.2.1 of this memo.
"recj": Defined in Appendix C.2.1 of this memo.
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j_update:
Registrations for this repository may only occur
via an IETF Standards-Track document. Appendix C.2.2
of this memo describes appropriate registrations for this
repository.
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"anchor": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
"open-loop": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
"closed-loop": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
render:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See the preamble of Appendix C.6 for details
(the paragraph that begins "Other render token ...").
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"unknown": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
"synthetic": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
"api": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
"null": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
subrender:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See Appendix C.6.2 for details (the paragraph
that begins "Other subrender token ...").
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"default": Defined in Appendix C.6.2 of this memo.
smf_info:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See Appendix C.6.4.1 for details (the paragraph
that begins "Other smf_info token ...").
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Initial values for this repository appear below:
"ignore": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
"sdp_start": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
"identity": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
11.2. mpeg4-generic Media Type Registration
This section requests the registration of the rtp-midi value for the
mode parameter of the mpeg4-generic media type. The mpeg4-generic
media type is defined in [RFC3640], and [RFC3640] defines a
repository for the mode parameter. We are registering mode rtp-midi
to support the MPEG Audio codecs [MPEGSA] that use MIDI.
In conjunction with this registration request, we request the
registration of the parameters listed in the "optional parameters"
section below (both the "non-extensible parameters" and the
"extensible parameters" lists). We also request the creation of
repositories for the "extensible parameters"; the details of this
request appear in Appendix 11.2.1.
Media type name:
audio
Subtype name:
mpeg4-generic
Required parameters:
The mode parameter is required by [RFC3640]. [RFC3640]
requests a repository for mode so that new values for mode
may be added. We request that the value rtp-midi be
added to the mode repository.
In mode rtp-midi, the mpeg4-generic parameter rate is
a required parameter. Rate specifies the RTP timestamp
clock rate. See Sections 2.1 and 6.2 for usage details
of rate in mode rtp-midi.
Optional parameters:
We request registration of the following parameters
for use in mode rtp-midi for mpeg4-generic.
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Non-extensible parameters:
ch_anchor: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
ch_default: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
ch_never: See Appendix C.2.3 for usage details.
cm_unused: See Appendix C.1 for usage details.
cm_used: See Appendix C.1 for usage details.
chanmask: See Appendix C.6.4.3 for usage details.
cid: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
guardtime: See Appendix C.4.2 for usage details.
inline: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
linerate: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
mperiod: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
multimode: See Appendix C.6.1 for usage details.
musicport: See Appendix C.5 for usage details.
octpos: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
rinit: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
rtp_maxptime: See Appendix C.4.1 for usage details.
rtp_ptime: See Appendix C.4.1 for usage details.
smf_cid: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
smf_inline: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
smf_url: See Appendix C.6.4.2 for usage details.
tsmode: See Appendix C.3 for usage details.
url: See Appendix C.6.3 for usage details.
Extensible parameters:
j_sec: See Appendix C.2.1 for usage details.
See Section 11.2.1 for repository details.
j_update: See Appendix C.2.2 for usage details.
See Section 11.2.1 for repository details.
render: See Appendix C.6 for usage details.
See Section 11.2.1 for repository details.
subrender: See Appendix C.6.2 for usage details.
See Section 11.2.1 for repository details.
smf_info: See Appendix C.6.4.1 for usage details.
See Section 11.2.1 for repository details.
Encoding considerations:
The format for this type is framed and binary.
Restrictions on usage:
Only defined for real-time transfers of audio/mpeg4-generic
RTP streams with mode=rtp-midi.
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Security considerations:
See Section 9 of this memo.
Interoperability considerations:
Except for the marker bit (Section 2.1), the packet formats
for audio/rtp-midi and audio/mpeg4-generic (mode rtp-midi)
are identical. The formats differ in use: audio/mpeg4-generic
is for MPEG work, and audio/rtp-midi is for all other work.
Published specification:
This memo, [MIDI], and [MPEGSA] are the normative references.
In addition, [NMP], [GRAME], and [RFC4696] provide
non-normative implementation guidance.
Applications that use this media type:
MPEG 4 servers and terminals that support [MPEGSA].
Additional information:
None.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Intended usage:
COMMON.
Author:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Change controller:
IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group delegated
from the IESG.
11.2.1. Repository Request for Mode rtp-midi for mpeg4-generic
For mode rtp-midi of the mpeg4-generic subtype, we request the
creation of repositories for extensions to the following parameters
(which are those listed as "extensible parameters" in Section 11.2).
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j_sec:
Registrations for this repository may only occur
via an IETF Standards-Track document. Appendix C.2.1
of this memo describes appropriate registrations for this
repository.
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"none": Defined in Appendix C.2.1 of this memo.
"recj": Defined in Appendix C.2.1 of this memo.
j_update:
Registrations for this repository may only occur
via an IETF Standards-Track document. Appendix C.2.2
of this memo describes appropriate registrations for this
repository.
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"anchor": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
"open-loop": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
"closed-loop": Defined in Appendix C.2.2 of this memo.
render:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See the preamble of Appendix C.6 for details
(the paragraph that begins "Other render token ...").
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"unknown": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
"synthetic": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
"null": Defined in Appendix C.6 of this memo.
subrender:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See Appendix C.6.2 for details (the paragraph
that begins "Other subrender token ..." and
subsequent paragraphs). Note that the text in
Appendix C.6.2 contains restrictions on subrender
registrations for mpeg4-generic (the sentence that
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begins "Registrations for mpeg4-generic subrender
values ...").
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"default": Defined in Appendix C.6.2 of this memo.
smf_info:
Registrations for this repository MUST include a
specification of the usage of the proposed value.
See Appendix C.6.4.1 for details (the paragraph
that begins "Other smf_info token ...").
Initial values for this repository appear below:
"ignore": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
"sdp_start": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
"identity": Defined in Appendix C.6.4.1 of this memo.
11.3. asc Media Type Registration
This section registers asc as a subtype for the audio media type. We
register this subtype to support the remote transfer of the "config"
parameter of the mpeg4-generic media type [RFC3640] when it is used
with mpeg4-generic mode rtp-midi (registered in Appendix 11.2 above).
We explain the mechanics of using audio/asc to set the config
parameter in Section 6.2 and Appendix C.6.5 of this document.
Note that this registration is a new subtype registration and is not
an addition to a repository defined by MPEG-related memos (such as
[RFC3640]). Also, note that this request for audio/asc does not
register parameters and does not request the creation of a
repository.
Media type name:
audio
Subtype name:
asc
Required parameters:
None.
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Optional parameters:
None.
Encoding considerations:
The native form of the data object is binary data,
zero-padded to an octet boundary. Disk files that
store this data object use the file extension ".acn".
Restrictions on usage:
This type is only defined for data object (stored file)
transfer. The most common transports for the type are
HTTP and SMTP.
Security considerations:
See Section 9 of this memo.
Interoperability considerations:
None.
Published specification:
The audio/asc data object is the AudioSpecificConfig
binary data structure, which is normatively defined in
[MPEGAUDIO].
Applications that use this media type:
MPEG 4 Audio servers and terminals that support
audio/mpeg4-generic RTP streams for mode rtp-midi.
Additional information:
None.
Person & email address to contact for further information:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Intended usage:
COMMON.
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Author:
John Lazzaro <lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu>
Change controller:
IETF Audio/Video Transport Working Group delegated
from the IESG.
12. Changes from RFC 4695
This document fixes errors found in RFC 4695 by reviewers. We thank
Alfred Hoenes, Roni Even, and Alexey Melnikov for reporting the
errors. To our knowledge, there are no interoperability issues
associated with the errors that are fixed by this document. In this
section, we list the error fixes.
In Section 3 of RFC 4695, the bitfield format shown in Figure 3 is
inconsistent with the normative text that (correctly) describes the
bitfield. Specifically, Figure 3 in RFC 4695 incorrectly states the
dependence of the Delta Time 0 field on the Z header bit. Figure 3
in this document corrects this error. To our knowledge, this error
did not result in incorrect implementations of RFC 4695.
The remaining errors are in Appendices C and D and concern session
configuration parameters. The numbered list ((1) through (11)) below
describes these errors in detail, in order of appearance in the
document. To our knowledge, there are no interoperability issues
associated with these errors, as implementation activity has so far
focused on an application domain that does not use SDP for session
management.
(1) In Appendices C.1 and C.2.3 of RFC 4695, an ABNF rule related to
System Chapter X is incorrectly defined as:
<parameter> = "__" <h-list> ["_" <h-list>] "__"
The correct version of this rule is:
<parameter> = "__" <h-list> *( "_" <h-list> ) "__"
(2) In Appendix C.6.3 of RFC 4695, the URIs permitted to be assigned
to the url parameter are not stated clearly. URIs assigned to url
MUST specify either HTTP or HTTP over TLS transport protocols.
In Appendix C.7.1 and C.7.2 of RFC 4695, the transport
interoperability requirements for the url parameter are not stated
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clearly. For both C.7.1 and C.7.2, HTTP is REQUIRED and HTTP over
TLS is OPTIONAL.
(3) In Appendix C.6.5, the filename extension ".acn" has been defined
for use with AudioSpecificConfig.
(4) Both fmtp lines in both session description examples in Appendix
C.7.2 of RFC 4695 contain instances of the same syntax error (a
missing ";" at a line wrap after a cm_used assignment).
(5) In the session description examples in Appendix C.5, C.6, and C.7
of RFC 4695, the parameter assignment
rinit="audio/asc";
is incorrect. The correct parameter assignment appears below:
rinit=audio/asc;
Note that this error also appears in the session descriptions shown
in Figures 1 and 2 of the informative RFC 4696. We are not aware of
existing implementations that use the rinit parameter, and so the
incorrect examples in RFC 4695 and RFC 4696 should not cause
interoperability problems.
(6) In Appendix D of RFC 4695, all uses of "*ietf-extension" in rules
are in error and should be replaced with "ietf-extension". Likewise,
all uses of "*extension" are in error and should be replaced with
"extension". This bug incorrectly lets the null token be assigned to
the j_sec, j_update, render, smf_info, and subrender parameters.
(7) In Appendix D of RFC 4695, the definitions of <command-type> and
<chapter-rules> incorrectly allow lowercase letters to appear in
these strings. The correct definitions of these rules appear below:
command-type = [A] [B] [C] [F] [G] [H] [J] [K] [M]
[N] [P] [Q] [T] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
chapter-list = [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [J] [K]
[M] [N] [P] [Q] [T] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
A = %x41
B = %x42
C = %x43
D = %x44
E = %x45
F = %x46
G = %x47
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H = %x48
J = %x4A
K = %x4B
M = %x4D
N = %x4E
P = %x50
Q = %x51
T = %x54
V = %x56
W = %x57
X = %x58
Y = %x59
Z = %x5A
(8) In Appendix D of RFC 4695, the definitions of <nonzero-four-
octet>, <four-octet>, and <midi-chan> are incorrect. The correct
definitions of these rules appear below:
nonzero-four-octet = (NZ-DIGIT 0*8(DIGIT))
/ (%x31-33 9(DIGIT))
/ ("4" %x30-31 8(DIGIT))
/ ("42" %x30-38 7(DIGIT))
/ ("429" %x30-33 6(DIGIT))
/ ("4294" %x30-38 5(DIGIT))
/ ("42949" %x30-35 4(DIGIT))
/ ("429496" %x30-36 3(DIGIT))
/ ("4294967" %x30-31 2(DIGIT))
/ ("42949672" %x30-38 (DIGIT))
/ ("429496729" %x30-34)
four-octet = "0" / nonzero-four-octet
midi-chan = DIGIT / ("1" %x30-35)
DIGIT = %x30-39
NZ-DIGIT = %x31-39
(9) In Appendix D of RFC4695, the rule <hex-octet> is incorrect. The
correct definition of this rule appears below.
hex-octet = %x30-37 U-HEXDIG
U-HEXDIG = DIGIT / A / B / C / D / E / F
; DIGIT as defined in (6) above
; A, B, C, D, E, F as defined in (5) above
(10) In Appendix D, the <mime-subtype> rule now points to the
<subtype-name> rule in [RFC4288].
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(11) In Appendix D of RFC4695, the rules <base64-unit> and
<base64-pad> are defined unclearly. The rewritten rules appear
below:
base64-unit = 4(base64-char)
base64-pad = (2(base64-char) "==") / (3(base64-char) "=")
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Appendix A. The Recovery Journal Channel Chapters
A.1. Recovery Journal Definitions
This appendix defines the terminology and the coding idioms that are
used in the recovery journal bitfield descriptions in Section 5
(journal header structure), Appendices A.2 to A.9 (channel journal
chapters), and Appendices B.1 to B.5 (system journal chapters).
We assume that the recovery journal resides in the journal section of
an RTP packet with sequence number I ("packet I") and that the
Checkpoint Packet Seqnum field in the top-level recovery journal
header refers to a previous packet with sequence number C (an
exception is the self-referential C = I case). Unless stated
otherwise, algorithms are assumed to use modulo 2^16 arithmetic for
calculations on 16-bit sequence numbers and modulo 2^32 arithmetic
for calculations on 32-bit extended sequence numbers.
Several bitfield coding idioms appear throughout the recovery journal
system with consistent semantics. Most recovery journal elements
begin with an "S" (Single-packet loss) bit. S bits are designed to
help receivers efficiently parse through the recovery journal
hierarchy in the common case of the loss of a single packet.
As a rule, S bits MUST be set to 1. However, an exception applies if
a recovery journal element in packet I encodes data about a command
stored in the MIDI command section of packet I - 1. In this case,
the S bit of the recovery journal element MUST be set to 0. If a
recovery journal element has its S bit set to 0, all higher-level
recovery journal elements that contain it MUST also have S bits that
are set to 0, including the top-level recovery journal header.
Other consistent bitfield coding idioms are described below:
o R flag bit. R flag bits are reserved for future use. Senders
MUST set R bits to 0. Receivers MUST ignore R bit values.
o LENGTH field. All fields named LENGTH (as distinct from LEN) code
the number of octets in the structure that contains it, including
the header it resides in and all hierarchical levels below it. If
a structure contains a LENGTH field, a receiver MUST use the
LENGTH field value to advance past the structure during parsing,
rather than use knowledge about the internal format of the
structure.
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We now define normative terms used to describe recovery journal
semantics.
o Checkpoint history. The checkpoint history of a recovery journal
is the concatenation of the MIDI command sections of packets C
through I - 1. The final command in the MIDI command section for
packet I - 1 is considered the most recent command; the first
command in the MIDI command section for packet C is the oldest
command. If command X is less recent than command Y, X is
considered to be "before Y". A checkpoint history with no
commands is considered to be empty. The checkpoint history never
contains the MIDI command section of packet I (the packet
containing the recovery journal), so if C == I, the checkpoint
history is empty by definition.
o Session history. The session history of a recovery journal is the
concatenation of MIDI command sections from the first packet of
the session up to packet I - 1. The definitions of command
recency and history emptiness follow those in the checkpoint
history. The session history never contains the MIDI command
section of packet I, so the session history of the first packet in
the session is empty by definition.
o Finished/unfinished commands. If all octets of a MIDI command
appear in the session history, the command is defined as being
finished. If some but not all octets of a command appear in the
session history, the command is defined as being unfinished.
Unfinished commands occur if segments of a SysEx command appear in
several RTP packets. For example, if a SysEx command is coded as
3 segments, with segment 1 in packet K, segment 2 in packet K + 1,
and segment 3 in packet K + 2, the session histories for packets K
+ 1 and K + 2 contain unfinished versions of the command. A
session history contains a finished version of a cancelled SysEx
command if the history contains the cancel sublist for the
command.
o Reset State commands. Reset State (RS) commands reset renderers
to an initialized "powerup" condition. The RS commands are System
Reset (0xFF), General MIDI System Enable (0xF0 0x7E 0xcc 0x09 0x01
0xF7), General MIDI 2 System Enable (0xF0 0x7E 0xcc 0x09 0x03
0xF7), General MIDI System Disable (0xF0 0x7E 0xcc 0x09 0x00
0xF7), Turn DLS On (0xF0 0x7E 0xcc 0x0A 0x01 0xF7), and Turn DLS
Off (0xF0 0x7E 0xcc 0x0A 0x02 0xF7). Registrations of subrender
parameter token values (Appendix C.6.2) and IETF Standards-Track
documents MAY specify additional RS commands.
o Active commands. Active commands are MIDI commands that do not
appear before a Reset State command in the session history.
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o N-active commands. N-active commands are MIDI commands that do
not appear before one of the following commands in the session
history: MIDI Control Change numbers 123-127 (numbers with All
Notes Off semantics) or 120 (All Sound Off), and any Reset State
command.
o C-active commands. C-active commands are MIDI commands that do
not appear before one of the following commands in the session
history: MIDI Control Change number 121 (Reset All Controllers)
and any Reset State command.
o Oldest-first ordering rule. Several recovery journal chapters
contain a list of elements, where each element is associated with
a MIDI command that appears in the session history. In most
cases, the chapter definition requires that list elements be
ordered in accordance with the "oldest-first ordering rule".
Below, we normatively define this rule.
Elements associated with the most recent command in the session
history coded in the list MUST appear at the end of the list.
Elements associated with the oldest command in the session history
coded in the list MUST appear at the start of the list.
All other list elements MUST be arranged with respect to these
boundary elements, to produce a list ordering that strictly
reflects the relative session history recency of the commands
coded by the elements in the list.
o Parameter system. A MIDI feature that provides two sets of 16,384
parameters to expand the 0-127 controller number space. The
Registered Parameter Numbers (RPN) system and the Non-Registered
Parameter Numbers (NRPN) system each provide 16,384 parameters.
o Parameter system transaction. RPN and NRPN values are changed by
a series of Control Change commands that form a parameter system
transaction. A canonical transaction begins with two Control
Change commands to set the parameter number (controller numbers 99
and 98 for NRPN parameters, controller numbers 101 and 100 for RPN
parameters). The transaction continues with an arbitrary number
of Data Entry (controller numbers 6 and 38), Data Increment
(controller number 96), and Data Decrement (controller number 97)
Control Change commands to set the parameter value. The
transaction ends with a second pair of (99, 98) or (101, 100)
Control Change commands that specify the null parameter (Most
Significant Bit (MSB) value 0x7F, Least Significant Bit (LSB)
value 0x7F).
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Several variants of the canonical transaction sequence are
possible. Most commonly, the terminal pair of (99, 98) or (101,
100) Control Change commands may specify a parameter other than
the null parameter. In this case, the command pair terminates the
first transaction and starts a second transaction. The command
pair is considered to be a part of both transactions. This
variant is legal and recommended in [MIDI]. We refer to this
variant as a "type 1 variant".
Less commonly, the MSB (99 or 101) or LSB (98 or 100) command of a
(99, 98) or (101, 100) Control Change pair may be omitted.
If the MSB command is omitted, the transaction uses the MSB value
of the most recent C-active Control Change command for controller
number 99 or 101 that appears in the session history. We refer to
this variant as a "type 2 variant".
If the LSB command is omitted, the LSB value 0x00 is assumed. We
refer to this variant as a "type 3 variant". The type 2 and type
3 variants are defined as legal but are not recommended in [MIDI].
System Real-Time commands may appear at any point during a
transaction (even between octets of individual commands in the
transaction). More generally, [MIDI] does not forbid the
appearance of unrelated MIDI commands during an open transaction.
As a rule, these commands are considered to be "outside" the
transaction and do not affect the status of the transaction in any
way. Exceptions to this rule are commands whose semantics act to
terminate transactions: Reset State commands and Control Change
(0xB) for controller number 121 (Reset All Controllers) [RP015].
o Initiated parameter system transaction. A canonical parameter
system transaction whose (99, 98) or (101, 100) initial Control
Change command pair appears in the session history is considered
to be an initiated parameter system transaction. This definition
also holds for type 1 variants. For type 2 variants (dropped
MSB), a transaction whose initial LSB Control Change command
appears in the session history is an initiated transaction. For
type 3 variants (dropped LSB), a transaction is considered to be
initiated if at least one transaction command follows the initial
MSB (99 or 101) Control Change command in the session history.
The completion of a transaction does not nullify its "initiated"
status.
o Session history reference counts. Several recovery journal
chapters include a reference count field, which codes the total
number of commands of a type that appear in the session history.
Examples include the Reset and Tune Request command logs (Appendix
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B.1, "System Chapter D") and the Active Sense command (Appendix
B.2, "System Chapter V"). Upon the detection of a loss event,
reference count fields let a receiver deduce if any instances of
the command have been lost, by comparing the journal reference
count with its own reference count. Thus, a reference count field
makes sense, even for command types in which knowing the NUMBER of
lost commands is irrelevant (as is true with all of the example
commands mentioned above).
The chapter definitions in Appendices A.2 to A.9 and B.1 to B.5
reflect the default recovery journal behavior. The ch_default,
ch_never, and ch_anchor parameters modify these definitions, as
described in Appendix C.2.3.
The chapter definitions specify if data MUST be present in the
journal. Senders MAY also include non-required data in the journal.
This optional data MUST comply with the normative chapter definition.
For example, if a chapter definition states that a field codes data
from the most recent active command in the session history, the
sender MUST NOT code inactive commands or older commands in the
field.
Finally, we note that a channel journal only encodes information
about MIDI commands appearing on the MIDI channel the journal
protects. All references to MIDI commands in Appendices A.2 to A.9
should be read as "MIDI commands appearing on this channel".
A.2. Chapter P: MIDI Program Change
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter P if an active Program Change
(0xC) command appears in the checkpoint history. Figure A.2.1 shows
the format for Chapter P.
0 1 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| PROGRAM |B| BANK-MSB |X| BANK-LSB |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.2.1 -- Chapter P Format
The chapter has a fixed size of 24 bits. The PROGRAM field indicates
the data value of the most recent active Program Change command in
the session history. By default, the B, BANK-MSB, X, and BANK-LSB
fields MUST be set to 0. Below, we define exceptions to this default
condition.
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If an active Control Change (0xB) command for controller number 0
(Bank Select MSB) appears before the Program Change command in the
session history, the B bit MUST be set to 1, and the BANK-MSB field
MUST code the data value of the Control Change command.
If B is set to 1, the BANK-LSB field MUST code the data value of the
most recent Control Change command for controller number 32 (Bank
Select LSB) that preceded the Program Change command coded in the
PROGRAM field and followed the Control Change command coded in the
BANK-MSB field. If no such Control Change command exists, the BANK-
LSB field MUST be set to 0.
If B is set to 1 and if a Control Change command for controller
number 121 (Reset All Controllers) appears in the MIDI stream between
the Control Change command coded by the BANK-MSB field and the
Program Change command coded by the PROGRAM field, the X bit MUST be
set to 1.
Note that [RP015] specifies that Reset All Controllers does not reset
the values of controller numbers 0 (Bank Select MSB) and 32 (Bank
Select LSB). Thus, the X bit does not affect how receivers will use
the BANK-LSB and BANK-MSB values when recovering from a lost Program
Change command. The X bit serves to aid recovery in MIDI
applications where controller numbers 0 and 32 are used in a non-
standard way.
A.3. Chapter C: MIDI Control Change
Figure A.3.1 shows the format for Chapter C.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| LEN |S| NUMBER |A| VALUE/ALT |S| NUMBER |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|A| VALUE/ALT | .... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.3.1 -- Chapter C Format
The chapter consists of a 1-octet header followed by a variable-
length list of 2-octet controller logs. The list MUST contain at
least one controller log. The 7-bit LEN field codes the number of
controller logs in the list, minus one. We define the semantics of
the controller log fields in Appendix A.3.2.
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter C if the rules defined in this
appendix require that one or more controller logs appear in the list.
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A.3.1. Log Inclusion Rules
A controller log encodes information about a particular Control
Change command in the session history.
In the default use of the payload format, list logs MUST encode
information about the most recent active command in the session
history for a controller number. Logs encoding earlier commands MUST
NOT appear in the list.
Also, as a rule, the list MUST contain a log for the most recent
active command for a controller number that appears in the checkpoint
history. Below, we define exceptions to this rule:
o MIDI streams may transmit 14-bit controller values using paired
Most Significant Byte (MSB, controller numbers 0-31, 99, 101) and
Least Significant Byte (LSB, controller numbers 32-63, 98, 100)
Control Change commands [MIDI].
If the most recent active Control Change command in the session
history for a 14-bit controller pair uses the MSB number, Chapter
C MAY omit the controller log for the most recent active Control
Change command for the associated LSB number, as the command
ordering makes this LSB value irrelevant. However, this exception
MUST NOT be applied if the sender is not certain that the MIDI
source uses 14-bit semantics for the controller number pair. Note
that some MIDI sources ignore 14-bit controller semantics and use
the LSB controller numbers as independent 7-bit controllers.
o If active Control Change commands for controller numbers 0 (Bank
Select MSB) or 32 (Bank Select LSB) appear in the checkpoint
history and if the command instances are also coded in the BANK-
MSB and BANK-LSB fields of the Chapter P (Appendix A.2), Chapter C
MAY omit the controller logs for the commands.
o Several controller number pairs are defined to be mutually
exclusive. Controller numbers 124 (Omni Off) and 125 (Omni On)
form a mutually exclusive pair, as do controller numbers 126
(Mono) and 127 (Poly).
If active Control Change commands for one or both members of a
mutually exclusive pair appear in the checkpoint history, a log
for the controller number of the most recent command for the pair
in the checkpoint history MUST appear in the controller list.
However, the list MAY omit the controller log for the most recent
active command for the other number in the pair.
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If active Control Change commands for one or both members of a
mutually exclusive pair appear in the session history, and if a
log for the controller number of the most recent command for the
pair does not appear in the controller list, a log for the most
recent command for the other number of the pair MUST NOT appear in
the controller list.
o If an active Control Change command for controller number 121
(Reset All Controllers) appears in the session history, the
controller list MAY omit logs for Control Change commands that
precede the Reset All Controllers command in the session history,
under certain conditions.
Namely, a log MAY be omitted if the sender is certain that a
command stream follows the Reset All Controllers semantics defined
in [RP015] and if the log codes a controller number for which
[RP015] specifies a reset value.
For example, [RP015] specifies that controller number 1
(Modulation Wheel) is reset to the value 0, and thus a controller
log for Modulation Wheel MAY be omitted from the controller log
list. In contrast, [RP015] specifies that controller number 7
(Channel Volume) is not reset, and thus a controller log for
Channel Volume MUST NOT be omitted from the controller log list.
o Appendix A.3.4 defines exception rules for the MIDI Parameter
System controller numbers 6, 38, and 96-101.
A.3.2. Controller Log Format
Figure A.3.2 shows the controller log structure of Chapter C.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NUMBER |A| VALUE/ALT |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.3.2 -- Chapter C Controller Log
The 7-bit NUMBER field identifies the controller number of the coded
command. The 7-bit VALUE/ALT field codes recovery information for
the command. The A bit sets the format of the VALUE/ALT field.
A log encodes recovery information using one of the following tools:
the value tool, the toggle tool, or the count tool.
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A log uses the value tool if the A bit is set to 0. The value tool
codes the 7-bit data value of a command in the VALUE/ALT field. The
value tool works best for controllers that code a continuous
quantity, such as number 1 (Modulation Wheel).
The A bit is set to 1 to code the toggle or count tool. These tools
work best for controllers that code discrete actions. Figure A.3.3
shows the controller log for these tools.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NUMBER |1|T| ALT |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.3.3 -- Controller Log for ALT Tools
A log uses the toggle tool if the T bit is set to 0. A log uses the
count tool if the T bit is set to 1. Both methods use the 6-bit ALT
field as an unsigned integer.
The toggle tool works best for controllers that act as on/off
switches, such as 64 (Damper Pedal (Sustain)). These controllers
code the "off" state with control values 0-63 and the "on" state with
64-127.
For the toggle tool, the ALT field codes the total number of toggles
(off->on and on->off) due to Control Change commands in the session
history, up to and including a toggle caused by the command coded by
the log. The toggle count includes toggles caused by Control Change
commands for controller number 121 (Reset All Controllers).
Toggle counting is performed modulo 64. The toggle count is reset at
the start of a session and whenever a Reset State command (Appendix
A.1) appears in the session history. When these reset events occur,
the toggle count for a controller is set to 0 (for controllers whose
default value is 0-63) or 1 (for controllers whose default value is
64-127).
The Damper Pedal (Sustain) controller illustrates the benefits of the
toggle tool over the value tool for switch controllers. As often
used in piano applications, the "on" state of the controller lets
notes resonate, while the "off" state immediately damps notes to
silence. The loss of the "off" command in an "on->off->on" sequence
results in ringing notes that should have been damped silent. The
toggle tool lets receivers detect this lost "off" command, but the
value tool does not.
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The count tool is conceptually similar to the toggle tool. For the
count tool, the ALT field codes the total number of Control Change
commands in the session history, up to and including the command
coded by the log. Command counting is performed modulo 64. The
command count is set to 0 at the start of the session and is reset to
0 whenever a Reset State command (Appendix A.1) appears in the
session history.
Because the count tool ignores the data value, it is a good match for
controllers whose controller value is ignored, such as number 123
(All Notes Off). More generally, the count tool may be used to code
a (modulo 64) identification number for a command.
A.3.3. Log List Coding Rules
In this section, we describe the organization of controller logs in
the Chapter C log list.
A log encodes information about a particular Control Change command
in the session history. In most cases, a command SHOULD be coded by
a single tool (and, thus, a single log). If a number is coded with a
single tool and this tool is the count tool, recovery Control Change
commands generated by a receiver SHOULD use the default control value
for the controller.
However, a command MAY be coded by several tool types (and, thus,
several logs, each using a different tool). This technique may
improve recovery performance for controllers with complex semantics,
such as controller number 84 (Portamento Control) or controller
number 121 (Reset All Controllers) when used with a non-zero data
octet (with the semantics described in [DLS2]).
If a command is encoded by multiple tools, the logs MUST be placed in
the list in the following order: count tool log (if any), followed by
value tool log (if any), followed by toggle tool log (if any).
The Chapter C log list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering rule
(defined in Appendix A.1). Note that this ordering preserves the
information necessary for the recovery of 14-bit controller values
without precluding the use of MSB and LSB controller pairs as
independent 7-bit controllers.
In the default use of the payload format, all logs that appear in the
list for a controller number encode information about one Control
Change command -- namely, the most recent active Control Change
command in the session history for the number.
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This coding scheme provides good recovery performance for the
standard uses of Control Change commands defined in [MIDI]. However,
not all MIDI applications restrict the use of Control Change commands
to those defined in [MIDI].
For example, consider the common MIDI encoding of rotary encoders
("infinite" rotation knobs). The mixing console MIDI convention
defined in [LCP] codes the position of rotary encoders as a series of
Control Change commands. Each command encodes a relative change of
knob position from the last update (expressed as a clockwise or
counter-clockwise knob-turning angle).
As the knob position is encoded incrementally over a series of
Control Change commands, the best recovery performance is obtained if
the log list encodes all Control Change commands for encoder
controller numbers that appear in the checkpoint history, not only
the most recent command.
To support application areas that use Control Change commands in this
way, Chapter C may be configured to encode information about several
Control Change commands for a controller number. We use the term
"enhanced" to describe this encoding method, which we describe below.
In Appendix C.2.3, we show how to configure a stream to use enhanced
Chapter C encoding for specific controller numbers. In Section 5 in
the main text, we show how the H bits in the recovery journal header
(Figure 8) and in the channel journal header (Figure 9) indicate the
use of enhanced Chapter C encoding.
Here, we define how to encode a Chapter C log list that uses the
enhanced encoding method.
Senders that use the enhanced encoding method for a controller number
MUST obey the rules below. These rules let a receiver determine
which logs in the list correspond to lost commands. Note that these
rules override the exceptions listed in Appendix A.3.1.
o If N commands for a controller number are encoded in the list, the
commands MUST be the N most recent commands for the controller
number in the session history. For example, for N = 2, the sender
MUST encode the most recent command and the second most recent
command, not the most recent command and the third most recent
command.
o If a controller number uses enhanced encoding, the encoding of the
least recent command for the controller number in the log list
MUST include a count tool log. In addition, if commands are
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encoded for the controller number whose logs have S bits set to 0,
the encoding of the least recent command with S = 0 logs MUST
include a count tool log.
The count tool is OPTIONAL for the other commands for the
controller number encoded in the list, as a receiver is able to
efficiently deduce the count tool value for these commands for
both single-packet and multi-packet loss events.
o The use of the value and toggle tools MUST be identical for all
commands for a controller number encoded in the list. For
example, either a value tool log MUST appear for all commands for
the controller number coded in the list or, alternatively, value
tool logs for the controller number MUST NOT appear in the list.
Likewise, either a toggle tool log MUST appear for all commands
for the controller number coded in the list or, alternatively,
toggle tool logs for the controller number MUST NOT appear in the
list.
o If a command is encoded by multiple tools, the logs MUST be placed
in the list in the following order: count tool log (if any),
followed by value tool log (if any), followed by toggle tool log
(if any).
These rules permit a receiver recovering from a packet loss to use
the count tool log to match the commands encoded in the list with its
own history of the stream, as we describe below. Note that the text
below describes a non-normative algorithm; receivers are free to use
any algorithm to match its history with the log list.
In a typical implementation of the enhanced encoding method, a
receiver computes and stores count, value, and toggle tool data field
values for the most recent Control Change command it has received for
a controller number.
After a loss event, a receiver parses the Chapter C list and
processes list logs for a controller number that uses enhanced
encoding as follows.
The receiver compares the count tool ALT field for the least recent
command for the controller number in the list against its stored
count data for the controller number to determine if recovery is
necessary for the command coded in the list. The value and toggle
tool logs (if any) that directly follow the count tool log are
associated with this least recent command.
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To check more recent commands for the controller, the receiver
detects additional value and/or toggle tool logs for the controller
number in the list and infers count tool data for the command coded
by these logs. This inferred data is used to determine if recovery
is necessary for the command coded by the value and/or toggle tool
logs.
In this way, a receiver is able to execute only lost commands,
without executing a command twice. While recovering from a single
packet loss, a receiver may skip through S = 1 logs in the list, as
the first S = 0 log for an enhanced controller number is always a
count tool log.
Note that the requirements in Appendix C.2.2.2 for protective sender
and receiver actions during session startup for multicast operation
are of particular importance for enhanced encoding, as receivers need
to initialize their count tool data structures with recovery journal
data in order to match commands correctly after a loss event.
Finally, we note in passing that in some applications of rotary
encoders, a good user experience may be possible without the use of
enhanced encoding. These applications are distinguished by visual
feedback of encoding position that is driven by the post-recovery
rotary encoding stream and relatively low packet loss. In these
domains, recovery performance may be acceptable for rotary encoders
if the log list encodes only the most recent command and if both
count and value logs appear for the command.
A.3.4. The Parameter System
Readers may wish to review the Appendix A.1 definitions of "parameter
system", "parameter system transaction", and "initiated parameter
system transaction" before reading this section.
Parameter system transactions update a MIDI Registered Parameter
Numbers (RPN) or Non-Registered Parameter Numbers (NRPN) value. A
parameter system transaction is a sequence of Control Change commands
that may use the following controllers numbers:
o Data Entry MSB (6)
o Data Entry LSB (38)
o Data Increment (96)
o Data Decrement (97)
o Non-Registered Parameter Number (NRPN) LSB (98)
o Non-Registered Parameter Number (NRPN) MSB (99)
o Registered Parameter Numbers (RPN) LSB (100)
o Registered Parameter Numbers (RPN) MSB (101)
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Control Change commands that are a part of a parameter system
transaction MUST NOT be coded in Chapter C controller logs. Instead,
these commands are coded in Chapter M, the MIDI Parameter chapter
defined in Appendix A.4.
However, Control Change commands that use the listed controllers as
general-purpose controllers (i.e., outside of a parameter system
transaction) MUST NOT be coded in Chapter M.
Instead, the controllers are coded in Chapter C controller logs. The
controller logs follow the coding rules stated in Appendix A.3.2 and
A.3.3. The rules for coding paired LSB and MSB controllers, as
defined in Appendix A.3.1, apply to the pairs (6, 38), (99, 98), and
(101, 100) when coded in Chapter C.
If active Control Change commands for controller numbers 6, 38, or
96-101 appear in the checkpoint history, and these commands are used
as general-purpose controllers, the most recent general-purpose
command instance for these controller numbers MUST appear as entries
in the Chapter C controller list.
MIDI syntax permits a source to use controllers 6, 38, 96, and 97 as
parameter-system controllers and general-purpose controllers in the
same stream. An RTP MIDI sender MUST deduce the role of each Control
Change command for these controller numbers by noting the placement
of the command in the stream and MUST use this information to code
the command in Chapter C or Chapter M, as appropriate.
Specifically, active Control Change commands for controllers 6, 38,
96, and 97 act in a general-purpose way when
o no active Control Change commands that set an RPN or NRPN
parameter number appear in the session history, or
o the most recent active Control Change commands in the session
history that set an RPN or NRPN parameter number code the null
parameter (MSB value 0x7F, LSB value 0x7F), or
o a Control Change command for controller number 121 (Reset All
Controllers) appears more recently in the session history than all
active Control Change commands that set an RPN or NRPN parameter
number (see [RP015] for details).
Finally, we note that a MIDI source that follows the recommendations
of [MIDI] exclusively uses numbers 98-101 as parameter system
controllers. Alternatively, a MIDI source may exclusively use 98-101
as general-purpose controllers and lose the ability to perform
parameter system transactions in a stream.
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In the language of [MIDI], the general-purpose use of controllers
98-101 constitutes a non-standard controller assignment. As most
real-world MIDI sources use the standard controller assignment for
controller numbers 98-101, an RTP MIDI sender SHOULD assume these
controllers act as parameter system controllers, unless it knows that
a MIDI source uses controller numbers 98-101 in a general-purpose
way.
A.4. Chapter M: MIDI Parameter System
Readers may wish to review the Appendix A.1 definitions for "C-active
commands", "parameter system", "parameter system transaction", and
"initiated parameter system transaction" before reading this
appendix.
Chapter M protects parameter system transactions for Registered
Parameter Numbers (RPN) and Non-Registered Parameter Numbers (NRPN)
values. Figure A.4.1 shows the format for Chapter M.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|P|E|U|W|Z| LENGTH |Q| PENDING | Log list ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.1 -- Top-Level Chapter M Format
Chapter M begins with a 2-octet header. If the P header bit is set
to 1, a 1-octet field follows the header, coding the 7-bit PENDING
value and its associated Q bit.
The 10-bit LENGTH field codes the size of Chapter M and conforms to
semantics described in Appendix A.1.
Chapter M ends with a list of zero or more variable-length parameter
logs. Appendix A.4.2 defines the bitfield format of a parameter log.
Appendix A.4.1 defines the inclusion semantics of the log list.
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter M if the rules defined in
Appendix A.4.1 require that one or more parameter logs appear in the
list.
A channel journal also MUST contain Chapter M if the most recent C-
active Control Change command involved in a parameter system
transaction in the checkpoint history is
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o an RPN MSB (101) or NRPN MSB (99) controller, or
o an RPN LSB (100) or NRPN LSB (98) controller that completes the
coding of the null parameter (MSB value 0x7F, LSB value 0x7F).
This rule provides loss protection for partially transmitted
parameter numbers and for the null parameter numbers.
If the most recent C-active Control Change command involved in a
parameter system transaction in the session history is for the RPN
MSB or NRPN MSB controller, the P header bit MUST be set to 1, and
the PENDING field (and its associated Q bit) MUST follow the Chapter
M header. Otherwise, the P header bit MUST be set to 0, and the
PENDING field and Q bit MUST NOT appear in Chapter M.
If PENDING codes an NRPN MSB controller, the Q bit MUST be set to 1.
If PENDING codes an RPN MSB controller, the Q bit MUST be set to 0.
The E header bit codes the current transaction state of the MIDI
stream. If E = 1, an initiated transaction is in progress. Below,
we define the rules for setting the E header bit:
o If no C-active parameter system transaction Control Change
commands appear in the session history, the E bit MUST be set to
0.
o If the P header bit is set to 1, the E bit MUST be set to 0.
o If the most recent C-active parameter system transaction Control
Change command in the session history is for the NRPN LSB or RPN
LSB controller number and if this command acts to complete the
coding of the null parameter (MSB value 0x7F, LSB value 0x7F), the
E bit MUST be set to 0.
o Otherwise, an initiated transaction is in progress, and the E bit
MUST be set to 1.
The U, W, and Z header bits code properties that are shared by all
parameter logs in the list. If these properties are set, parameter
logs may be coded with improved efficiency (we explain how in A.4.2).
By default, the U, W, and Z bits MUST be set to 0. If all parameter
logs in the list code RPN parameters, the U bit MAY be set to 1. If
all parameter logs in the list code NRPN parameters, the W bit MAY be
set to 1. If the parameter numbers of all RPN and NRPN logs in the
list lie in the range 0-127 (and thus have an MSB value of 0), the Z
bit MAY be set to 1.
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Note that C-active semantics appear in the preceding paragraphs
because [RP015] specifies that pending Parameter System transactions
are closed by a Control Change command for controller number 121
(Reset All Controllers).
A.4.1. Log Inclusion Rules
Parameter logs code recovery information for a specific RPN or NRPN
parameter.
A parameter log MUST appear in the list if an active Control Change
command that forms a part of an initiated transaction for the
parameter appears in the checkpoint history.
An exception to this rule applies if the checkpoint history only
contains transaction Control Change commands for controller numbers
98-101 that act to terminate the transaction. In this case, a log
for the parameter MAY be omitted from the list.
A log MAY appear in the list if an active Control Change command that
forms a part of an initiated transaction for the parameter appears in
the session history. Otherwise, a log for the parameter MUST NOT
appear in the list.
Multiple logs for the same RPN or NRPN parameter MUST NOT appear in
the log list.
The parameter log list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering rule
(defined in Appendix A.1), with the phrase "parameter transaction"
replacing the word "command" in the rule definition.
Parameter logs associated with the RPN or NRPN null parameter (LSB =
0x7F, MSB = 0x7F) MUST NOT appear in the log list. Chapter M uses
the E header bit (Figure A.4.1) and the log list ordering rules to
code null parameter semantics.
Note that "active" semantics (rather than "C-active" semantics)
appear in the preceding paragraphs because [RP015] specifies that
pending Parameter System transactions are not reset by a Control
Change command for controller number 121 (Reset All Controllers).
However, the rule that follows uses C-active semantics because it
concerns the protection of the transaction system itself, and [RP015]
specifies that Reset All Controllers acts to close a transaction in
progress.
In most cases, parameter logs for RPN and NRPN parameters that are
assigned to the ch_never parameter (Appendix C.2.3) MAY be omitted
from the list. An exception applies if
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o the log codes the most recent initiated transaction in the session
history, and
o a C-active command that forms a part of the transaction appears in
the checkpoint history, and
o the E header bit for the top-level Chapter M header (Figure A.4.1)
is set to 1.
In this case, a log for the parameter MUST appear in the list. This
log informs receivers recovering from a loss that a transaction is in
progress so that the receiver is able to correctly interpret RPN or
NRPN Control Change commands that follow the loss event.
A.4.2. Log Coding Rules
Figure A.4.2 shows the parameter log structure of Chapter M.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| PNUM-LSB |Q| PNUM-MSB |J|K|L|M|N|T|V|R| Fields ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.2 -- Parameter Log Format
The log begins with a header, whose default size (as shown in Figure
A.4.2) is 3 octets. If the Q header bit is set to 0, the log encodes
an RPN parameter. If Q = 1, the log encodes an NRPN parameter. The
7-bit PNUM-MSB and PNUM-LSB fields code the parameter number and
reflect the Control Change command data values for controllers 99 and
98 (for NRPN parameters) or 101 and 100 (for RPN parameters).
The J, K, L, M, and N header bits form a Table of Contents (TOC) for
the log and signal the presence of fixed-sized fields that follow the
header. A header bit that is set to 1 codes the presence of a field
in the log. The ordering of fields in the log follows the ordering
of the header bits in the TOC. Appendices A.4.2.1 and A.4.2.2 define
the fields associated with each TOC header bit.
The T and V header bits code information about the parameter log but
are not part of the TOC. A set T or V bit does not signal the
presence of any parameter log field.
If the rules in Appendix A.4.1 state that a log for a given parameter
MUST appear in Chapter M, the log MUST code sufficient information to
protect the parameter from the loss of active parameter transaction
Control Change commands in the checkpoint history.
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This rule does not apply if the parameter coded by the log is
assigned to the ch_never parameter (Appendix C.2.3). In this case,
senders MAY choose to set the J, K, L, M, and N TOC bits to 0, coding
a parameter log with no fields.
Note that logs to protect parameters that are assigned to ch_never
are REQUIRED under certain conditions (see Appendix A.4.1). The
purpose of the log is to inform receivers recovering from a loss that
a transaction is in progress so that the receiver is able to
correctly interpret RPN or NRPN Control Change commands that follow
the loss event.
Parameter logs provide two tools for parameter protection: the value
tool and the count tool. Depending on the semantics of the
parameter, senders may use either tool, both tools, or neither tool
to protect a given parameter.
The value tool codes information a receiver may use to determine the
current value of an RPN or NRPN parameter. If a parameter log uses
the value tool, the V header bit MUST be set to 1, and the semantics
defined in Appendix A.4.2.1 for setting the J, K, L, and M TOC bits
MUST be followed. If a parameter log does not use the value tool,
the V bit MUST be set to 0, and the J, K, L, and M TOC bits MUST also
be set to 0.
The count tool codes the number of transactions for an RPN or NRPN
parameter. If a parameter log uses the count tool, the T header bit
MUST be set to 1, and the semantics defined in Appendix A.4.2.2 for
setting the N TOC bit MUST be followed. If a parameter log does not
use the count tool, the T bit and the N TOC bit MUST be set to 0.
Note that V and T are set if the sender uses value (V) or count (T)
tool for the log on an ongoing basis. Thus, V may be set even if J =
K = L = M = 0, and T may be set even if N = 0.
In many cases, all parameters coded in the log list are of one type
(RPN parameters or NRPN parameters), and all parameter numbers lie in
the range 0-127. As described in Appendix A.4, senders MAY signal
this condition by setting the top-level Chapter M header bit Z to 1
(to code the restricted range) and by setting the U or W bit to 1 (to
code the parameter type).
If the top-level Chapter M header codes Z = 1 and either U = 1 or W =
1, all logs in the parameter log list MUST use a modified header
format. This modification deletes bits 8-15 of the bitfield shown in
Figure A.4.2 to yield a 2-octet header. The values of the deleted
PNUM-MSB and Q fields may be inferred from the U, W, and Z bit
values.
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A.4.2.1. The Value Tool
The value tool uses several fields to track the value of an RPN or
NRPN parameter.
The J TOC bit codes the presence of the octet shown in Figure A.4.3
in the field list.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|X| ENTRY-MSB |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.3 -- ENTRY-MSB Field
The 7-bit ENTRY-MSB field codes the data value of the most recent
active Control Change command for controller number 6 (Data Entry
MSB) in the session history that appears in a transaction for the log
parameter.
The X bit MUST be set to 1 if the command coded by ENTRY-MSB precedes
the most recent Control Change command for controller 121 (Reset All
Controllers) in the session history. Otherwise, the X bit MUST be
set to 0.
A parameter log that uses the value tool MUST include the ENTRY-MSB
field if an active Control Change command for controller number 6
appears in the checkpoint history.
Note that [RP015] specifies that Control Change commands for
controller 121 (Reset All Controllers) do not reset RPN and NRPN
values, and thus the X bit would not play a recovery role for MIDI
systems that comply with [RP015].
However, certain renderers (such as DLS 2 [DLS2]) specify that
certain RPN values are reset for some uses of Reset All Controllers.
The X bit (and other bitfield features of this nature in this
appendix) plays a role in recovery for renderers of this type.
The K TOC bit codes the presence of the octet shown in Figure A.4.4
in the field list.
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0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|X| ENTRY-LSB |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.4 -- ENTRY-LSB Field
The 7-bit ENTRY-LSB field codes the data value of the most recent
active Control Change command for controller number 38 (Data Entry
LSB) in the session history that appears in a transaction for the log
parameter.
The X bit MUST be set to 1 if the command coded by ENTRY-LSB precedes
the most recent Control Change command for controller 121 (Reset All
Controllers) in the session history. Otherwise, the X bit MUST be
set to 0.
As a rule, a parameter log that uses the value tool MUST include the
ENTRY-LSB field if an active Control Change command for controller
number 38 appears in the checkpoint history. However, the ENTRY-LSB
field MUST NOT appear in a parameter log if the Control Change
command associated with the ENTRY-LSB precedes a Control Change
command for controller number 6 (Data Entry MSB) that appears in a
transaction for the log parameter in the session history.
The L TOC bit codes the presence of the octets shown in Figure A.4.5
in the field list.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|G|X| A-BUTTON |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.5 -- A-BUTTON Field
The 14-bit A-BUTTON field codes a count of the number of active
Control Change commands for controller numbers 96 and 97 (Data
Increment and Data Decrement) in the session history that appear in a
transaction for the log parameter.
The M TOC bit codes the presence of the octets shown in Figure A.4.6
in the field list.
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0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|G|R| C-BUTTON |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.6 -- C-BUTTON Field
The 14-bit C-BUTTON field has semantics identical to A-BUTTON, except
that Data Increment and Data Decrement Control Change commands that
precede the most recent Control Change command for controller 121
(Reset All Controllers) in the session history are not counted.
For both A-BUTTON and C-BUTTON, Data Increment and Data Decrement
Control Change commands are not counted if they precede Control
Changes commands for controller numbers 6 (Data Entry MSB) or 38
(Data Entry LSB) that appear in a transaction for the log parameter
in the session history.
The A-BUTTON and C-BUTTON fields are interpreted as unsigned
integers, and the G bit associated with the field codes the sign of
the integer (G = 0 for positive or zero, G = 1 for negative).
To compute and code the count value, initialize the count value to 0,
add 1 for each qualifying Data Increment command, and subtract 1 for
each qualifying Data Decrement command. After each addition or
subtraction, limit the count magnitude to 16383. The G bit codes the
sign of the count, and the A-BUTTON or C-BUTTON field codes the count
magnitude.
For the A-BUTTON field, if the most recent qualified Data Increment
or Data Decrement command precedes the most recent Control Change
command for controller 121 (Reset All Controllers) in the session
history, the X bit associated with A-BUTTON field MUST be set to 1.
Otherwise, the X bit MUST be set to 0.
A parameter log that uses the value tool MUST include the A-BUTTON
and C-BUTTON fields if an active Control Change command for
controller numbers 96 or 97 appears in the checkpoint history.
However, to improve coding efficiency, this rule has several
exceptions:
o If the log includes the A-BUTTON field, and if the X bit of the A-
BUTTON field is set to 1, the C-BUTTON field (and its associated R
and G bits) MAY be omitted from the log.
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o If the log includes the A-BUTTON field, and if the A-BUTTON and C-
BUTTON fields (and their associated G bits) code identical values,
the C-BUTTON field (and its associated R and G bits) MAY be
omitted from the log.
A.4.2.2. The Count Tool
The count tool tracks the number of transactions for an RPN or NRPN
parameter. The N TOC bit codes the presence of the octet shown in
Figure A.4.7 in the field list.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|X| COUNT |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.4.7 -- COUNT Field
The 7-bit COUNT codes the number of initiated transactions for the
log parameter that appear in the session history. Initiated
transactions are counted if they contain one or more active Control
Change commands, including commands for controllers 98-101 that
initiate the parameter transaction.
If the most recent counted transaction precedes the most recent
Control Change command for controller 121 (Reset All Controllers) in
the session history, the X bit associated with the COUNT field MUST
be set to 1. Otherwise, the X bit MUST be set to 0.
Transaction counting is performed modulo 128. The transaction count
is set to 0 at the start of a session and is reset to 0 whenever a
Reset State command (Appendix A.1) appears in the session history.
A parameter log that uses the count tool MUST include the COUNT field
if an active command that increments the transaction count (modulo
128) appears in the checkpoint history.
A.5. Chapter W: MIDI Pitch Wheel
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter W if a C-active MIDI Pitch
Wheel (0xE) command appears in the checkpoint history. Figure A.5.1
shows the format for Chapter W.
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0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| FIRST |R| SECOND |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.5.1 -- Chapter W Format
The chapter has a fixed size of 16 bits. The FIRST and SECOND fields
are the 7-bit values of the first and second data octets of the most
recent active Pitch Wheel command in the session history.
Note that Chapter W encodes C-active commands and thus does not
encode active commands that are not C-active (see the second-to-last
paragraph of Appendix A.1 for an explanation of chapter inclusion
text in this regard).
Chapter W does not encode "active but not C-active" commands because
[RP015] declares that Control Change commands for controller number
121 (Reset All Controllers) act to reset the Pitch Wheel value to 0.
If Chapter W encoded "active but not C-active" commands, a repair
operation following a Reset All Controllers command could incorrectly
repair the stream with a stale Pitch Wheel value.
A.6. Chapter N: MIDI NoteOff and NoteOn
In this appendix, we consider NoteOn commands with zero velocity to
be NoteOff commands. Readers may wish to review the Appendix A.1
definition of "N-active commands" before reading this appendix.
Chapter N completely protects note commands in streams that alternate
between NoteOn and NoteOff commands for a particular note number.
However, in rare applications, multiple overlapping NoteOn commands
may appear for a note number. Chapter E, described in Appendix A.7,
augments Chapter N to completely protect these streams.
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter N if an N-active MIDI NoteOn
(0x9) or NoteOff (0x8) command appears in the checkpoint history.
Figure A.6.1 shows the format for Chapter N.
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|B| LEN | LOW | HIGH |S| NOTENUM |Y| VELOCITY |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NOTENUM |Y| VELOCITY | .... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OFFBITS | OFFBITS | .... | OFFBITS |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.6.1 -- Chapter N Format
Chapter N consists of a 2-octet header followed by at least one of
the following data structures:
o A list of note logs to code NoteOn commands.
o A NoteOff bitfield structure to code NoteOff commands.
We define the header bitfield semantics in Appendix A.6.1. We define
the note log semantics and the NoteOff bitfield semantics in Appendix
A.6.2.
If one or more N-active NoteOn or NoteOff commands in the checkpoint
history reference a note number, the note number MUST be coded in
either the note log list or the NoteOff bitfield structure.
The note log list MUST contain an entry for all note numbers whose
most recent checkpoint history appearance is in an N-active NoteOn
command. The NoteOff bitfield structure MUST contain a set bit for
all note numbers whose most recent checkpoint history appearance is
in an N-active NoteOff command.
A note number MUST NOT be coded in both structures.
All note logs and NoteOff bitfield set bits MUST code the most recent
N-active NoteOn or NoteOff reference to a note number in the session
history.
The note log list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering rule (defined
in Appendix A.1).
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A.6.1. Header Structure
The header for Chapter N, shown in Figure A.6.2, codes the size of
the note list and bitfield structures.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|B| LEN | LOW | HIGH |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.6.2 -- Chapter N Header
The LEN field, a 7-bit integer value, codes the number of 2-octet
note logs in the note list. Zero is a valid value for LEN and codes
an empty note list.
The 4-bit LOW and HIGH fields code the number of OFFBITS octets that
follow the note log list. LOW and HIGH are unsigned integer values.
If LOW <= HIGH, there are (HIGH - LOW + 1) OFFBITS octets in the
chapter. The value pairs (LOW = 15, HIGH = 0) and (LOW = 15, HIGH =
1) code an empty NoteOff bitfield structure (i.e., no OFFBITS
octets). Other (LOW > HIGH) value pairs MUST NOT appear in the
header.
The B bit provides S-bit functionality (Appendix A.1) for the NoteOff
bitfield structure. By default, the B bit MUST be set to 1.
However, if the MIDI command section of the previous packet (packet I
- 1, with I as defined in Appendix A.1) includes a NoteOff command
for the channel, the B bit MUST be set to 0. If the B bit is set to
0, the higher-level recovery journal elements that contain Chapter N
MUST have S bits that are set to 0, including the top-level journal
header.
The LEN value of 127 codes a note list length of 127 or 128 note
logs, depending on the values of LOW and HIGH. If LEN = 127, LOW =
15, and HIGH = 0, the note list holds 128 note logs, and the NoteOff
bitfield structure is empty. For other values of LOW and HIGH, LEN =
127 codes that the note list contains 127 note logs. In this case,
the chapter has (HIGH - LOW + 1) NoteOff OFFBITS octets if LOW <=
HIGH and has no OFFBITS octets if LOW = 15 and HIGH = 1.
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A.6.2. Note Structures
Figure A.6.3 shows the 2-octet note log structure.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NOTENUM |Y| VELOCITY |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.6.3 -- Chapter N Note Log
The 7-bit NOTENUM field codes the note number for the log. A note
number MUST NOT be represented by multiple note logs in the note
list.
The 7-bit VELOCITY field codes the velocity value for the most recent
N-active NoteOn command for the note number in the session history.
Multiple overlapping NoteOns for a given note number may be coded
using Chapter E, as discussed in Appendix A.7.
VELOCITY is never zero; NoteOn commands with zero velocity are coded
as NoteOff commands in the NoteOff bitfield structure.
The note log does not code the execution time of the NoteOn command.
However, the Y bit codes a hint from the sender about the NoteOn
execution time. The Y bit codes a recommendation to play (Y = 1) or
skip (Y = 0) the NoteOn command recovered from the note log. See
Section 4.2 of [RFC4696] for non-normative guidance on the use of the
Y bit.
Figure A.6.1 shows the NoteOff bitfield structure as the list of
OFFBITS octets at the end of the chapter. A NoteOff OFFBITS octet
codes NoteOff information for eight consecutive MIDI note numbers,
with the most significant bit representing the lowest note number.
The most significant bit of the first OFFBITS octet codes the note
number 8*LOW; the most significant bit of the last OFFBITS octet
codes the note number 8*HIGH.
A set bit codes a NoteOff command for the note number. In the most
efficient coding for the NoteOff bitfield structure, the first and
last octets of the structure contain at least one set bit. Note that
Chapter N does not code NoteOff velocity data.
Note that in the general case, the recovery journal does not code the
relative placement of a NoteOff command and a Change Control command
for controller 64 (Damper Pedal (Sustain)). In many cases, a
receiver processing a loss event may deduce this relative placement
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from the history of the stream and thus determine if a NoteOff note
is sustained by the pedal. If such a determination is not possible,
receivers SHOULD err on the side of silencing pedal sustains, as
erroneously sustained notes may produce unpleasant (albeit transient)
artifacts.
A.7. Chapter E: MIDI Note Command Extras
Readers may wish to review the Appendix A.1 definition of "N-active
commands" before reading this appendix. In this appendix, a NoteOn
command with a velocity of 0 is considered to be a NoteOff command
with a release velocity value of 64.
Chapter E encodes recovery information about MIDI NoteOn (0x9) and
NoteOff (0x8) command features that rarely appear in MIDI streams.
Receivers use Chapter E to reduce transient artifacts for streams
where several NoteOn commands appear for a note number without an
intervening NoteOff. Receivers also use Chapter E to reduce
transient artifacts for streams that use NoteOff release velocity.
Chapter E supplements the note information coded in Chapter N
(Appendix A.6).
Figure A.7.1 shows the format for Chapter E.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| LEN |S| NOTENUM |V| COUNT/VEL |S| NOTENUM |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|V| COUNT/VEL | .... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.7.1 -- Chapter E Format
The chapter consists of a 1-octet header followed by a variable-
length list of 2-octet note logs. Appendix A.7.1 defines the
bitfield format for a note log.
The log list MUST contain at least one note log. The 7-bit LEN
header field codes the number of note logs in the list, minus one. A
channel journal MUST contain Chapter E if the rules defined in this
appendix require that one or more note logs appear in the list. The
note log list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering rule (defined in
Appendix A.1).
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A.7.1. Note Log Format
Figure A.7.2 reproduces the note log structure of Chapter E.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NOTENUM |V| COUNT/VEL |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.7.2 -- Chapter E Note Log
A note log codes information about the MIDI note number coded by the
7-bit NOTENUM field. The nature of the information depends on the
value of the V flag bit.
If the V bit is set to 1, the COUNT/VEL field codes the release
velocity value for the most recent N-active NoteOff command for the
note number that appears in the session history.
If the V bit is set to 0, the COUNT/VEL field codes a reference count
of the number of NoteOn and NoteOff commands for the note number that
appears in the session history.
The reference count is set to 0 at the start of the session. NoteOn
commands increment the count by 1. NoteOff commands decrement the
count by 1. However, a decrement that generates a negative count
value is not performed.
If the reference count is in the range 0-126, the 7-bit COUNT/VEL
field codes an unsigned integer representation of the count. If the
count is greater than or equal to 127, COUNT/VEL is set to 127.
By default, the count is reset to 0 whenever a Reset State command
(Appendix A.1) appears in the session history and whenever MIDI
Control Change commands for controller numbers 123-127 (numbers with
All Notes Off semantics) or 120 (All Sound Off) appear in the session
history.
A.7.2. Log Inclusion Rules
If the most recent N-active NoteOn or NoteOff command for a note
number in the checkpoint history is a NoteOff command with a release
velocity value other than 64, a note log whose V bit is set to 1 MUST
appear in Chapter E for the note number.
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If the most recent N-active NoteOn or NoteOff command for a note
number in the checkpoint history is a NoteOff command, and if the
reference count for the note number is greater than 0, a note log
whose V bit is set to 0 MUST appear in Chapter E for the note number.
If the most recent N-active NoteOn or NoteOff command for a note
number in the checkpoint history is a NoteOn command, and if the
reference count for the note number is greater than 1, a note log
whose V bit is set to 0 MUST appear in Chapter E for the note number.
At most, two note logs MAY appear in Chapter E for a note number: one
log whose V bit is set to 0 and one log whose V bit is set to 1.
Chapter E codes a maximum of 128 note logs. If the log inclusion
rules yield more than 128 REQUIRED logs, note logs whose V bit is set
to 1 MUST be dropped from Chapter E in order to reach the 128-log
limit. Note logs whose V bit is set to 0 MUST NOT be dropped.
Most MIDI streams do not use NoteOn and NoteOff commands in ways that
would trigger the log inclusion rules. For these streams, Chapter E
would never be REQUIRED to appear in a channel journal.
The ch_never parameter (Appendix C.2.3) may be used to configure the
log inclusion rules for Chapter E.
A.8. Chapter T: MIDI Channel Aftertouch
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter T if an N-active and C-active
MIDI Channel Aftertouch (0xD) command appears in the checkpoint
history. Figure A.8.1 shows the format for Chapter T.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| PRESSURE |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.8.1 -- Chapter T Format
The chapter has a fixed size of 8 bits. The 7-bit PRESSURE field
holds the pressure value of the most recent N-active and C-active
Channel Aftertouch command in the session history.
Chapter T only encodes commands that are C-active and N-active. We
define a C-active restriction because [RP015] declares that a Control
Change command for controller 121 (Reset All Controllers) acts to
reset the channel pressure to 0 (see the discussion at the end of
Appendix A.5 for a more complete rationale).
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We define an N-active restriction on the assumption that aftertouch
commands are linked to note activity, and thus Channel Aftertouch
commands that are not N-active are stale and should not be used to
repair a stream.
A.9. Chapter A: MIDI Poly Aftertouch
A channel journal MUST contain Chapter A if a C-active Poly
Aftertouch (0xA) command appears in the checkpoint history. Figure
A.9.1 shows the format for Chapter A.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| LEN |S| NOTENUM |X| PRESSURE |S| NOTENUM |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|X| PRESSURE | .... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.9.1 -- Chapter A Format
The chapter consists of a 1-octet header followed by a variable-
length list of 2-octet note logs. A note log MUST appear for a note
number if a C-active Poly Aftertouch command for the note number
appears in the checkpoint history. A note number MUST NOT be
represented by multiple note logs in the note list. The note log
list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering rule (defined in Appendix
A.1).
The 7-bit LEN field codes the number of note logs in the list, minus
one. Figure A.9.2 reproduces the note log structure of Chapter A.
0 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| NOTENUM |X| PRESSURE |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure A.9.2 -- Chapter A Note Log
The 7-bit PRESSURE field codes the pressure value of the most recent
C-active Poly Aftertouch command in the session history for the MIDI
note number coded in the 7-bit NOTENUM field.
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As a rule, the X bit MUST be set to 0. However, the X bit MUST be
set to 1 if the command coded by the log appears before one of the
following commands in the session history: MIDI Control Change
numbers 123-127 (numbers with All Notes Off semantics) or 120 (All
Sound Off).
We define C-active restrictions for Chapter A because [RP015]
declares that a Control Change command for controller 121 (Reset All
Controllers) acts to reset the polyphonic pressure to 0 (see the
discussion at the end of Appendix A.5 for a more complete rationale).
Appendix B. The Recovery Journal System Chapters
B.1. System Chapter D: Simple System Commands
The system journal MUST contain Chapter D if an active MIDI Reset
(0xFF), MIDI Tune Request (0xF6), MIDI Song Select (0xF3), undefined
MIDI System Common (0xF4 and 0xF5), or undefined MIDI System Real-
Time (0xF9 and 0xFD) command appears in the checkpoint history.
Figure B.1.1 shows the variable-length format for Chapter D.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|B|G|H|J|K|Y|Z| Command logs ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.1.1 -- System Chapter D Format
The chapter consists of a 1-octet header followed by one or more
command logs. Header flag bits indicate the presence of command logs
for the Reset (B = 1), Tune Request (G = 1), Song Select (H = 1),
undefined System Common 0xF4 (J = 1), undefined System Common 0xF5 (K
= 1), undefined System Real-Time 0xF9 (Y = 1), or undefined System
Real-Time 0xFD (Z = 1) commands.
Command logs appear in a list following the header, in the order that
the flag bits appear in the header.
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Figure B.1.2 shows the 1-octet command log format for the Reset and
Tune Request commands.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| COUNT |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.1.2 -- Command Log for Reset and Tune Request
Chapter D MUST contain the Reset command log if an active Reset
command appears in the checkpoint history. The 7-bit COUNT field
codes the total number of Reset commands (modulo 128) present in the
session history.
Chapter D MUST contain the Tune Request command log if an active Tune
Request command appears in the checkpoint history. The 7-bit COUNT
field codes the total number of Tune Request commands (modulo 128)
present in the session history.
For these commands, the COUNT field acts as a reference count. See
the definition of "session history reference counts" in Appendix A.1
for more information.
Figure B.1.3 shows the 1-octet command log format for the Song Select
command.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| VALUE |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.1.3 -- Song Select Command Log Format
Chapter D MUST contain the Song Select command log if an active Song
Select command appears in the checkpoint history. The 7-bit VALUE
field codes the song number of the most recent active Song Select
command in the session history.
B.1.1. Undefined System Commands
In this section, we define the Chapter D command logs for the
undefined system commands. [MIDI] reserves the undefined system
commands 0xF4, 0xF5, 0xF9, and 0xFD for future use. At the time of
this writing, any MIDI command stream that uses these commands is
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non-compliant with [MIDI]. However, future versions of [MIDI] may
define these commands, and a few products do use these commands in a
non-compliant manner.
Figure B.1.4 shows the variable-length command log format for the
undefined System Common commands (0xF4 and 0xF5).
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|C|V|L|DSZ| LENGTH | COUNT | VALUE ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LEGAL ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.1.4 -- Undefined System Common Command Log Format
The command log codes a single command type (0xF4 or 0xF5, not both).
Chapter D MUST contain a command log if an active 0xF4 command
appears in the checkpoint history and MUST contain an independent
command log if an active 0xF5 command appears in the checkpoint
history.
A Chapter D Undefined System Common command log consists of a two-
octet header followed by a variable number of data fields. Header
flag bits indicate the presence of the COUNT field (C = 1), the VALUE
field (V = 1), and the LEGAL field (L = 1). The 10-bit LENGTH field
codes the size of the command log and conforms to semantics described
in Appendix A.1.
The 2-bit DSZ field codes the number of data octets in the command
instance that appears most recently in the session history. If DSZ =
0-2, the command has 0-2 data octets. If DSZ = 3, the command has 3
or more command data octets.
We now define the default rules for the use of the COUNT, VALUE, and
LEGAL fields. The session configuration tools defined in Appendix
C.2.3 may be used to override this behavior.
By default, if the DSZ field is set to 0, the command log MUST
include the COUNT field. The 8-bit COUNT field codes the total
number of commands of the type coded by the log (0xF4 or 0xF5)
present in the session history, modulo 256.
By default, if the DSZ field is set to 1-3, the command log MUST
include the VALUE field. The variable-length VALUE field codes a
verbatim copy the data octets for the most recent use of the command
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type coded by the log (0xF4 or 0xF5) in the session history. The
most significant bit of the final data octet MUST be set to 1, and
the most significant bit of all other data octets MUST be set to 0.
The LEGAL field is reserved for future use. If an update to [MIDI]
defines the 0xF4 or 0xF5 command, an IETF Standards-Track document
may define the LEGAL field. Until such a document appears, senders
MUST NOT use the LEGAL field, and receivers MUST use the LENGTH field
to skip over the LEGAL field. The LEGAL field would be defined by
the IETF if the semantics of the new 0xF4 or 0xF5 command could not
be protected from packet loss via the use of the COUNT and VALUE
fields.
Figure B.1.5 shows the variable-length command log format for the
undefined System Real-Time commands (0xF9 and 0xFD).
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|C|L| LENGTH | COUNT | LEGAL ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.1.5 -- Undefined System Real-Time Command Log Format
The command log codes a single command type (0xF9 or 0xFD, not both).
Chapter D MUST contain a command log if an active 0xF9 command
appears in the checkpoint history and MUST contain an independent
command log if an active 0xFD command appears in the checkpoint
history.
A Chapter D Undefined System Real-Time command log consists of a one-
octet header followed by a variable number of data fields. Header
flag bits indicate the presence of the COUNT field (C = 1) and the
LEGAL field (L = 1). The 5-bit LENGTH field codes the size of the
command log and conforms to semantics described in Appendix A.1.
We now define the default rules for the use of the COUNT and LEGAL
fields. The session configuration tools defined in Appendix C.2.3
may be used to override this behavior.
The 8-bit COUNT field codes the total number of commands of the type
coded by the log present in the session history, modulo 256. By
default, the COUNT field MUST be present in the command log.
The LEGAL field is reserved for future use. If an update to [MIDI]
defines the 0xF9 or 0xFD command, an IETF Standards-Track document
may define the LEGAL field to protect the command. Until such a
document appears, senders MUST NOT use the LEGAL field, and receivers
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MUST use the LENGTH field to skip over the LEGAL field. The LEGAL
field would be defined by the IETF if the semantics of the new 0xF9
or 0xFD command could not be protected from packet loss via the use
of the COUNT field.
Finally, we note that some non-standard uses of the undefined System
Real-Time commands act to implement non-compliant variants of the
MIDI sequencer system. In Appendix B.3.1, we describe resiliency
tools for the MIDI sequencer system that provide some protection in
this case.
B.2. System Chapter V: Active Sense Command
The system journal MUST contain Chapter V if an active MIDI Active
Sense (0xFE) command appears in the checkpoint history. Figure B.2.1
shows the format for Chapter V.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S| COUNT |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.2.1 -- System Chapter V Format
The 7-bit COUNT field codes the total number of Active Sense commands
(modulo 128) present in the session history. The COUNT field acts as
a reference count. See the definition of "session history reference
counts" in Appendix A.1 for more information.
B.3. System Chapter Q: Sequencer State Commands
This appendix describes Chapter Q, the system chapter for the MIDI
sequencer commands.
The system journal MUST contain Chapter Q if an active MIDI Song
Position Pointer (0xF2), MIDI Clock (0xF8), MIDI Start (0xFA), MIDI
Continue (0xFB), or MIDI Stop (0xFC) command appears in the
checkpoint history and if the rules defined in this appendix require
a change in the Chapter Q bitfield contents because of the command
appearance.
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Figure B.3.1 shows the variable-length format for Chapter Q.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|N|D|C|T| TOP | CLOCK | TIMETOOLS ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.3.1 -- System Chapter Q Format
Chapter Q consists of a 1-octet header followed by several optional
fields, in the order shown in Figure B.3.1.
Header flag bits signal the presence of the 16-bit CLOCK field (C =
1) and the 24-bit TIMETOOLS field (T = 1). The 3-bit TOP header
field is interpreted as an unsigned integer, as are CLOCK and
TIMETOOLS. We describe the TIMETOOLS field in Appendix B.3.1.
Chapter Q encodes the most recent state of the sequencer system.
Receivers use the chapter to resynchronize the sequencer after a
packet loss episode. Chapter fields encode the on/off state of the
sequencer, the current position in the song, and the downbeat.
The N header bit encodes the relative occurrence of the Start, Stop,
and Continue commands in the session history. If an active Start or
Continue command appears most recently, the N bit MUST be set to 1.
If an active Stop appears most recently, or if no active Start, Stop,
or Continue commands appear in the session history, the N bit MUST be
set to 0.
The C header flag, the TOP header field, and the CLOCK field act to
code the current position in the sequence:
o If C = 1, the 3-bit TOP header field and the 16-bit CLOCK field
are combined to form the 19-bit unsigned quantity 65536*TOP +
CLOCK. This value encodes the song position in units of MIDI
Clocks (24 clocks per quarter note), modulo 524288. Note that the
maximum song position value that may be coded by the Song Position
Pointer command is 98303 clocks (which may be coded with 17 bits)
and that MIDI-coded songs are generally constructed to avoid
durations longer than this value. However, the 19-bit size may be
useful for real-time applications, such as a drum machine MIDI
output that is sending clock commands for long periods of time.
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o If C = 0, the song position is the start of the song. The C = 0
position is identical to the position coded by C = 1, TOP = 0, and
CLOCK = 0, for the case where the song position is less than
524288 MIDI clocks. In certain situations (defined later in this
section), normative text may require the C = 0 or the C = 1, TOP =
0, CLOCK = 0 encoding of the start of the song.
The C, TOP, and CLOCK fields MUST be set to code the current song
position, for both N = 0 and N = 1 conditions. If C = 0, the TOP
field MUST be set to 0. See [MIDI] for a precise definition of a
song position.
The D header bit encodes information about the downbeat and acts to
qualify the song position coded by the C, TOP, and CLOCK fields.
If the D bit is set to 1, the song position represents the most
recent position in the sequence that has played. If D = 1, the next
Clock command (if N = 1) or the next (Continue, Clock) pair (if N =
0) acts to increment the song position by one clock and to play the
updated position.
If the D bit is set to 0, the song position represents a position in
the sequence that has not yet been played. If D = 0, the next Clock
command (if N = 1) or the next (Continue, Clock) pair (if N = 0) acts
to play the point in the song coded by the song position. The song
position is not incremented.
An example of a stream that uses D = 0 coding is one whose most
recent sequence command is a Start or Song Position Pointer command
(both N = 1 conditions). However, it is also possible to construct
examples where D = 0 and N = 0. A Start command immediately followed
by a Stop command is coded in Chapter Q by setting C = 0, D = 0, N =
0, TOP = 0.
If N = 1 (coding Start or Continue), D = 0 (coding that the downbeat
has yet to be played), and the song position is at the start of the
song, the C = 0 song position encoding MUST be used if a Start
command occurs more recently than a Continue command in the session
history, and the C = 1, TOP = 0, CLOCK = 0 song position encoding
MUST be used if a Continue command occurs more recently than a Start
command in the session history.
B.3.1. Non-Compliant Sequencers
The Chapter Q description in this appendix assumes that the sequencer
system counts off time with Clock commands, as mandated in [MIDI].
However, a few non-compliant products do not use Clock commands to
count off time, but instead use non-standard methods.
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Chapter Q uses the TIMETOOLS field to provide resiliency support for
these non-standard products. By default, the TIMETOOLS field MUST
NOT appear in Chapter Q, and the T header bit MUST be set to 0. The
session configuration tools described in Appendix C.2.3 may be used
to select TIMETOOLS coding.
Figure B.3.2 shows the format of the 24-bit TIMETOOLS field.
0 1 2
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| TIME |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.3.2 -- TIMETOOLS Format
The TIME field is a 24-bit unsigned integer quantity, with units of
milliseconds. TIME codes an additive correction term for the song
position coded by the TOP, CLOCK, and C fields. TIME is coded in
network byte order (big-endian).
A receiver computes the correct song position by converting TIME into
units of MIDI clocks and adding it to 65536*TOP + CLOCK (assuming C =
1). Alternatively, a receiver may convert 65536*TOP + CLOCK into
milliseconds (assuming C = 1) and add it to TIME. The downbeat (D
header bit) semantics defined in Appendix B.3 apply to the corrected
song position.
B.4. System Chapter F: MIDI Time Code Tape Position
This appendix describes Chapter F, the system chapter for the MIDI
Time Code (MTC) commands. Readers may wish to review the Appendix
A.1 definition of "finished/unfinished commands" before reading this
appendix.
The system journal MUST contain Chapter F if an active System Common
Quarter Frame command (0xF1) or an active finished System Exclusive
(Universal Real Time) MTC Full Frame command (F0 7F cc 01 01 hr mn sc
fr F7) appears in the checkpoint history. Otherwise, the system
journal MUST NOT contain Chapter F.
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Figure B.4.1 shows the variable-length format for Chapter F.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|C|P|Q|D|POINT| COMPLETE ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... | PARTIAL ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.4.1 -- System Chapter F Format
Chapter F holds information about recent MTC tape positions coded in
the session history. Receivers use Chapter F to resynchronize the
MTC system after a packet loss episode.
Chapter F consists of a 1-octet header followed by several optional
fields, in the order shown in Figure B.4.1. The C and P header bits
form a Table of Contents (TOC) and signal the presence of the 32-bit
COMPLETE field (C = 1) and the 32-bit PARTIAL field (P = 1).
The Q header bit codes information about the COMPLETE field format.
If Chapter F does not contain a COMPLETE field, Q MUST be set to 0.
The D header bit codes the tape movement direction. If the tape is
moving forward, or if the tape direction is indeterminate, the D bit
MUST be set to 0. If the tape is moving in the reverse direction,
the D bit MUST be set to 1. In most cases, the ordering of commands
in the session history clearly defines the tape direction. However,
a few command sequences have an indeterminate direction (such as a
session history consisting of one Full Frame command).
The 3-bit POINT header field is interpreted as an unsigned integer.
Appendix B.4.1 defines how the POINT field codes information about
the contents of the PARTIAL field. If Chapter F does not contain a
PARTIAL field, POINT MUST be set to 7 (if D = 0) or 0 (if D = 1).
Chapter F MUST include the COMPLETE field if an active finished Full
Frame command appears in the checkpoint history or if an active
Quarter Frame command that completes the encoding of a frame value
appears in the checkpoint history.
The COMPLETE field encodes the most recent active complete MTC frame
value that appears in the session history. This frame value may take
the form of a series of 8 active Quarter Frame commands (0xF1 0x0n
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through 0xF1 0x7n for forward tape movement, 0xF1 0x7n through 0xF1
0x0n for reverse tape movement) or may take the form of an active
finished Full Frame command.
If the COMPLETE field encodes a Quarter Frame command series, the Q
header bit MUST be set to 1, and the COMPLETE field MUST have the
format shown in Figure B.4.2. The 4-bit fields MT0 through MT7 code
the data (lower) nibble for the Quarter Frame commands for Message
Type 0 through Message Type 7 [MIDI]. These nibbles encode a
complete frame value, in addition to fields reserved for future use
by [MIDI].
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MT0 | MT1 | MT2 | MT3 | MT4 | MT5 | MT6 | MT7 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.4.2 -- COMPLETE Field Format, Q = 1
In this usage, the frame value encoded in the COMPLETE field MUST be
offset by 2 frames (relative to the frame value encoded in the
Quarter Frame commands) if the frame value codes a 0xF1 0x0n through
0xF1 0x7n command sequence. This offset compensates for the two-
frame latency of the Quarter Frame encoding for forward tape
movement. No offset is applied if the frame value codes a 0xF1 0x7n
through 0xF1 0x0n Quarter Frame command sequence.
The most recent active complete MTC frame value may alternatively be
encoded by an active finished Full Frame command. In this case, the
Q header bit MUST be set to 0, and the COMPLETE field MUST have the
format shown in Figure B.4.3. The HR, MN, SC, and FR fields
correspond to the hr, mn, sc, and fr data octets of the Full Frame
command.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| HR | MN | SC | FR |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.4.3 -- COMPLETE Field Format, Q = 0
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B.4.1. Partial Frames
The most recent active session history command that encodes MTC frame
value data may be a Quarter Frame command other than a forward-moving
0xF1 0x7n command (which completes a frame value for forward tape
movement) or a reverse-moving 0xF1 0x1n command (which completes a
frame value for reverse tape movement).
We consider this type of Quarter Frame command to be associated with
a partial frame value. The Quarter Frame sequence that defines a
partial frame value MUST either start at Message Type 0 and increment
contiguously to an intermediate Message Type less than 7 or start at
Message Type 7 and decrement contiguously to an intermediate Message
type greater than 0. A Quarter Frame command sequence that does not
follow this pattern is not associated with a partial frame value.
Chapter F MUST include a PARTIAL field if the most recent active
command in the checkpoint history that encodes MTC frame value data
is a Quarter Frame command that is associated with a partial frame
value. Otherwise, Chapter F MUST NOT include a PARTIAL field.
The partial frame value consists of the data (lower) nibbles of the
Quarter Frame command sequence. The PARTIAL field codes the partial
frame value, using the format shown in Figure B.4.2. Message Type
fields that are not associated with a Quarter Frame command MUST be
set to 0.
The POINT header field identifies the Message Type fields in the
PARTIAL field that code valid data. If P = 1, the POINT field MUST
encode the unsigned integer value formed by the lower 3 bits of the
upper nibble of the data value of the most recent active Quarter
Frame command in the session history. If D = 0 and P = 1, POINT MUST
take on a value in the range 0-6. If D = 1 and P = 1, POINT MUST
take on a value in the range 1-7.
If D = 0, MT fields (Figure B.4.2) in the inclusive range from 0 up
to and including the POINT value encode the partial frame value. If
D = 1, MT fields in the inclusive range from 7 down to and including
the POINT value encode the partial frame value. Note that, unlike
the COMPLETE field encoding, senders MUST NOT add a 2-frame offset to
the partial frame value encoded in PARTIAL.
For the default semantics, if a recovery journal contains Chapter F
and if the session history codes a legal [MIDI] series of Quarter
Frame and Full Frame commands, the chapter always contains a COMPLETE
or a PARTIAL field (and may contain both fields). Thus, a one-octet
Chapter F (C = P = 0) always codes the presence of an illegal command
sequence in the session history (under some conditions, the C = 1, P
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= 0 condition may also code the presence of an illegal command
sequence). The illegal command sequence conditions are transient in
nature and usually indicate that a Quarter Frame command sequence
began with an intermediate Message Type.
B.5. System Chapter X: System Exclusive
This appendix describes Chapter X, the system chapter for MIDI System
Exclusive (SysEx) commands (0xF0). Readers may wish to review the
Appendix A.1 definition of "finished/unfinished commands" before
reading this appendix.
Chapter X consists of a list of one or more command logs. Each log
in the list codes information about a specific finished or unfinished
SysEx command that appears in the session history. The system
journal MUST contain Chapter X if the rules defined in Appendix B.5.2
require that one or more logs appear in the list.
The log list is not preceded by a header. Instead, each log
implicitly encodes its own length. Given the length of the N'th list
log, the presence of the (N+1)'th list log may be inferred from the
LENGTH field of the system journal header (Figure 10 in Section 5 of
the main text). The log list MUST obey the oldest-first ordering
rule (defined in Appendix A.1).
B.5.1. Chapter Format
Figure B.5.1 shows the bitfield format for the Chapter X command
logs.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|T|C|F|D|L|STA| TCOUNT | COUNT | FIRST ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| DATA ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure B.5.1 -- Chapter X Command Log Format
A Chapter X command log consists of a 1-octet header followed by the
optional TCOUNT, COUNT, FIRST, and DATA fields.
The T, C, F, and D header bits act as a Table of Contents (TOC) for
the log. If T is set to 1, the 1-octet TCOUNT field appears in the
log. If C is set to 1, the 1-octet COUNT field appears in the log.
If F is set to 1, the variable-length FIRST field appears in the log.
If D is set to 1, the variable-length DATA field appears in the log.
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The L header bit sets the coding tool for the log. We define the log
coding tools in Appendix B.5.2.
The STA field codes the status of the command coded by the log. The
2-bit STA value is interpreted as an unsigned integer. If STA is 0,
the log codes an unfinished command. Non-zero STA values code
different classes of finished commands. An STA value of 1 codes a
cancelled command, an STA value of 2 codes a command that uses the
"dropped 0xF7" construction, and an STA value of 3 codes all other
finished commands. Section 3.2 in the main text describes cancelled
and "dropped 0xF7" commands.
The S bit (Appendix A.1) of the first log in the list acts as the S
bit for Chapter X. For the other logs in the list, the S bit refers
to the log itself. The value of the "phantom" S bit associated with
the first log is defined by the following rules:
o If the list codes one log, the phantom S-bit value is the same as
the Chapter X S-bit value.
o If the list codes multiple logs, the phantom S-bit value is the
logical OR of the S-bit value of the first and second command logs
in the list.
In all other respects, the S bit follows the semantics defined in
Appendix A.1.
The FIRST field (present if F = 1) encodes a variable-length unsigned
integer value that sets the coverage of the DATA field.
The FIRST field (present if F = 1) encodes a variable-length unsigned
integer value that specifies which SysEx data bytes are encoded in
the DATA field of the log. The FIRST field consists of an octet
whose most significant bit is set to 0, optionally preceded by one or
more octets whose most significant bit is set to 1. The algorithm
shown in Figure B.5.2 decodes this format into an unsigned integer to
yield the value dec(FIRST). FIRST uses a variable-length encoding
because dec(FIRST) references a data octet in a SysEx command, and a
SysEx command may contain an arbitrary number of data octets.
One-Octet FIRST value:
Encoded form: 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0ddddddd
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Two-Octet FIRST value:
Encoded form: 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 00000000 00cccccc cddddddd
Three-Octet FIRST value:
Encoded form: 1bbbbbbb 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 00000000 000bbbbb bbcccccc cddddddd
Four-Octet FIRST value:
Encoded form: 1aaaaaaa 1bbbbbbb 1ccccccc 0ddddddd
Decoded form: 0000aaaa aaabbbbb bbcccccc cddddddd
Figure B.5.2 -- Decoding FIRST Field Formats
The DATA field (present if D = 1) encodes a modified version of the
data octets of the SysEx command coded by the log. Status octets
MUST NOT be coded in the DATA field.
If F = 0, the DATA field begins with the first data octet of the
SysEx command and includes all subsequent data octets for the command
that appear in the session history. If F = 1, the DATA field begins
with the (dec(FIRST) + 1)'th data octet of the SysEx command and
includes all subsequent data octets for the command that appear in
the session history. Note that the word "command" in the
descriptions above refers to the original SysEx command as it appears
in the source MIDI data stream, not to a particular MIDI list SysEx
command segment.
The length of the DATA field is coded implicitly, using the most
significant bit of each octet. The most significant bit of the final
octet of the DATA field MUST be set to 1. The most significant bit
of all other DATA octets MUST be set to 0. This coding method relies
on the fact that the most significant bit of a MIDI data octet is 0
by definition. Apart from this length-coding modification, the DATA
field encodes a verbatim copy of all data octets it encodes.
B.5.2. Log Inclusion Semantics
Chapter X offers two tools to protect SysEx commands: the "recency"
tool and the "list" tool. The tool definitions use the concept of
the "SysEx type" of a command, which we now define.
Each SysEx command instance in a session, excepting MTC Full Frame
commands, is said to have a "SysEx type". Types are used in equality
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comparisons: two SysEx commands in a session are said to have "the
same SysEx type" or "different SysEx types".
If efficiency is not a concern, a sender may follow a simple typing
rule: every SysEx command in the session history has a different
SysEx type, and thus no two commands in the session have the same
type.
To improve efficiency, senders MAY implement exceptions to this rule.
These exceptions declare that certain sets of SysEx command instances
have the same SysEx type. Any command not covered by an exception
follows the simple rule. We list exceptions below:
o All commands with identical data octet fields (same number of data
octets, same value for each data octet) have the same type. This
rule MUST be applied to all SysEx commands in the session or not
at all. Note that the implementation of this exception requires
no sender knowledge of the format and semantics of the SysEx
commands in the stream, merely the ability to count and compare
octets.
o Two instances of the same command whose semantics set or report
the value of the same "parameter" have the same type. The
implementation of this exception requires specific knowledge of
the format and semantics of SysEx commands. In practice, a sender
implementation chooses to support this exception for certain
classes of commands (such as the Universal System Exclusive
commands defined in [MIDI]). If a sender supports this exception
for a particular command in a class (for example, the Universal
Real Time System Exclusive message for Master Volume, F0 F7 cc 04
01 vv vv F7, defined in [MIDI]), it MUST support the exception to
all instances of this particular command in the session.
We now use this definition of "SysEx type" to define the "recency"
tool and the "list" tool for Chapter X.
By default, the Chapter X log list MUST code sufficient information
to protect the rendered MIDI performance from indefinite artifacts
caused by the loss of all finished or unfinished active SysEx
commands that appear in the checkpoint history (excluding finished
MTC Full Frame commands, which are coded in Chapter F (Appendix
B.4)).
To protect a command of a specific SysEx type with the recency tool,
senders MUST code a log in the log list for the most recent finished
active instance of the SysEx type that appears in the checkpoint
history. Additionally, if an unfinished active instance of the SysEx
type appears in the checkpoint history, senders MUST code a log in
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the log list for the unfinished command instance. The L header bit
of both command logs MUST be set to 0.
To protect a command of a specific SysEx type with the list tool,
senders MUST code a log in the Chapter X log list for each finished
or unfinished active instance of the SysEx type that appears in the
checkpoint history. The L header bit of list tool command logs MUST
be set to 1.
As a rule, a log REQUIRED by the list or recency tool MUST include a
DATA field that codes all data octets that appear in the checkpoint
history for the SysEx command instance associated with the log. The
FIRST field MAY be used to configure a DATA field that minimally
meets this requirement.
An exception to this rule applies to cancelled commands (defined in
Section 3.2). REQUIRED command logs associated with cancelled
commands MAY be coded with no DATA field. However, if DATA appears
in the log, DATA MUST code all data octets that appear in the
checkpoint history for the command associated with the log.
As defined by the preceding text in this section, by default all
finished or unfinished active SysEx commands that appear in the
checkpoint history (excluding finished MTC Full Frame commands) MUST
be protected by the list tool or the recency tool.
For some MIDI source streams, this default yields a Chapter X whose
size is too large. For example, imagine that a sender begins to
transcode a SysEx command with 10,000 data octets onto a UDP RTP
stream "on the fly", by sending SysEx command segments as soon as
data octets are delivered by the MIDI source. After 1000 octets have
been sent, the expansion of Chapter X yields an RTP packet that is
too large to fit in the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) for the
stream.
In this situation, if a sender uses the closed-loop sending policy
for SysEx commands, the RTP packet size may always be capped by
stalling the stream. In a stream stall, once the packet reaches a
maximum size, the sender refrains from sending new packets with non-
empty MIDI Command Sections until receiver feedback permits the
trimming of Chapter X. If the stream permits arbitrary commands to
appear between SysEx segments (selectable during configuration using
the tools defined in Appendix C.1), the sender may stall the SysEx
segment stream but continue to code other commands in the MIDI list.
Stalls are a workable but suboptimal solution to Chapter X size
issues. As an alternative to stalls, senders SHOULD take preemptive
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action during session configuration to reduce the anticipated size of
Chapter X, using the methods described below:
o Partitioned transport. Appendix C.5 provides tools for sending a
MIDI name space over several RTP streams. Senders may use these
tools to map a MIDI source into a low-latency UDP RTP stream (for
channel commands and short SysEx commands) and a reliable
[RFC4571] TCP stream (for bulk-data SysEx commands). The
cm_unused and cm_used parameters (Appendix C.1) may be used to
communicate the nature of the SysEx command partition. As TCP is
reliable, the RTP MIDI TCP stream would not use the recovery
journal. To minimize transmission latency for short SysEx
commands, senders may begin segmental transmission for all SysEx
commands over the UDP stream and then cancel the UDP transmission
of long commands (using tools described in Section 3.2) and resend
the commands over the TCP stream.
o Selective protection. Journal protection may not be necessary for
all SysEx commands in a stream. The ch_never parameter (Appendix
C.2) may be used to communicate which SysEx commands are excluded
from Chapter X.
B.5.3. TCOUNT and COUNT Fields
If the T header bit is set to 1, the 8-bit TCOUNT field appears in
the command log. If the C header bit is set to 1, the 8-bit COUNT
field appears in the command log. TCOUNT and COUNT are interpreted
as unsigned integers.
The TCOUNT field codes the total number of SysEx commands of the
SysEx type coded by the log that appear in the session history at the
moment after the (finished or unfinished) command coded by the log
enters the session history.
The COUNT field codes the total number of SysEx commands that appear
in the session history, excluding commands that are excluded from
Chapter X via the ch_never parameter (Appendix C.2) at the moment
after the (finished or unfinished) command coded by the log enters
the session history.
Command counting for TCOUNT and COUNT uses modulo-256 arithmetic.
MTC Full Frame command instances (Appendix B.4) are included in
command counting if the TCOUNT and COUNT definitions warrant their
inclusion, as are cancelled commands (Section 3.2).
Senders use the TCOUNT and COUNT fields to track the identity and
(for TCOUNT) the sequence position of a command instance. Senders
MUST use the TCOUNT or COUNT fields if identity or sequence
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information is necessary to protect the command type coded by the
log.
If a sender uses the COUNT field in a session, the final command log
in every Chapter X in the stream MUST code the COUNT field. This
rule lets receivers resynchronize the COUNT value after a packet
loss.
Appendix C. Session Configuration Tools
In Sections 6.1 and 6.2 of the main text, we show session
descriptions for minimal native and mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams.
Minimal streams lack the flexibility to support some applications.
In this appendix, we describe how to customize stream behavior
through the use of the payload format parameters.
The appendix begins with 6 sections, each devoted to parameters that
affect a particular aspect of stream behavior:
o Appendix C.1 describes the stream subsetting system (cm_unused and
cm_used).
o Appendix C.2 describes the journalling system (ch_anchor,
ch_default, ch_never, j_sec, j_update).
o Appendix C.3 describes MIDI command timestamp semantics (linerate,
mperiod, octpos, tsmode).
o Appendix C.4 describes the temporal duration ("media time") of an
RTP MIDI packet (guardtime, rtp_maxptime, rtp_ptime).
o Appendix C.5 concerns stream description (musicport).
o Appendix C.6 describes MIDI rendering (chanmask, cid, inline,
multimode, render, rinit, subrender, smf_cid, smf_info,
smf_inline, smf_url, url).
The parameters listed above may optionally appear in session
descriptions of RTP MIDI streams. If these parameters are used in an
SDP session description, the parameters appear on an fmtp attribute
line. This attribute line applies to the payload type associated
with the fmtp line.
The parameters listed above add extra functionality ("features") to
minimal RTP MIDI streams. In Appendix C.7, we show how to use these
features to support two classes of applications: content streaming
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using RTSP (Appendix C.7.1) and network musical performance using SIP
(Appendix C.7.2).
The participants in a multimedia session MUST share a common view of
all of the RTP MIDI streams that appear in an RTP session, as defined
by a single media (m=) line. In some RTP MIDI applications, the
"common view" restriction makes it difficult to use sendrecv streams
(all parties send and receive), as each party has its own
requirements. For example, a two-party network musical performance
application may wish to customize the renderer on each host to match
the CPU performance of the host [NMP].
We solve this problem by using two RTP MIDI streams -- one sendonly,
one recvonly -- in lieu of one sendrecv stream. The data flows in
the two streams travel in opposite directions to control receivers
configured to use different renderers. In the third example in
Appendix C.5, we show how the musicport parameter may be used to
define virtual sendrecv streams.
As a general rule, the RTP MIDI protocol does not handle parameter
changes during a session well because the parameters describe
heavyweight or stateful configuration that is not easily changed once
a session has begun. Thus, parties SHOULD NOT expect that parameter
change requests during a session will be accepted by other parties.
However, implementors SHOULD support in-session parameter changes
that are easy to handle (for example, the guardtime parameter defined
in Appendix C.4) and SHOULD be capable of accepting requests for
changes of those parameters, as received by its session management
protocol (for example, re-offers in SIP [RFC3264]).
Appendix D defines the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF, [RFC5234])
syntax for the payload parameters. Section 11 provides information
to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) on the media types
and parameters defined in this document.
Appendix C.6.5 defines the media type audio/asc, a stored object for
initializing mpeg4-generic renderers. As described in Appendix C.6,
the audio/asc media type is assigned to the rinit parameter to
specify an initialization data object for the default mpeg4-generic
renderer. Note that RTP stream semantics are not defined for
audio/asc. Therefore, the asc subtype MUST NOT appear on the rtpmap
line of a session description.
C.1. Configuration Tools: Stream Subsetting
As defined in Section 3.2 in the main text, the MIDI list of an RTP
MIDI packet may encode any MIDI command that may legally appear on a
MIDI 1.0 DIN cable.
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In this appendix, we define two parameters (cm_unused and cm_used)
that modify this default condition by excluding certain types of MIDI
commands from the MIDI list of all packets in a stream. For example,
if a multimedia session partitions a MIDI name space into two RTP
MIDI streams, the parameters may be used to define which commands
appear in each stream.
In this appendix, we define a simple language for specifying MIDI
command types. If a command type is assigned to cm_unused, the
commands coded by the string MUST NOT appear in the MIDI list. If a
command type is assigned to cm_used, the commands coded by the string
MAY appear in the MIDI list.
The parameter list may code multiple assignments to cm_used and
cm_unused. Assignments have a cumulative effect and are applied in
the order of appearance in the parameter list. A later assignment of
a command type to the same parameter expands the scope of the earlier
assignment. A later assignment of a command type to the opposite
parameter cancels (partially or completely) the effect of an earlier
assignment.
To initialize the stream subsetting system, "implicit" assignments to
cm_unused and cm_used are processed before processing the actual
assignments that appear in the parameter list. The System Common
undefined commands (0xF4, 0xF5) and the System Real-Time Undefined
commands (0xF9, 0xFD) are implicitly assigned to cm_unused. All
other command types are implicitly assigned to cm_used.
Note that the implicit assignments code the default behavior of an
RTP MIDI stream as defined in Section 3.2 in the main text (namely,
that all commands that may legally appear on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable may
appear in the stream). Also, note that assignments of the System
Common undefined commands (0xF4, 0xF5) apply to the use of these
commands in the MIDI source command stream, not the special use of
0xF4 and 0xF5 in SysEx segment encoding defined in Section 3.2 in the
main text.
As a rule, parameter assignments obey the following syntax (see
Appendix D for ABNF):
<parameter> = [channel list]<command-type list>[field list]
The command-type list is mandatory; the channel and field lists are
optional.
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The command-type list specifies the MIDI command types for which the
parameter applies. The command-type list is a concatenated sequence
of one or more of the letters (ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ). The letters code
the following command types:
o A: Poly Aftertouch (0xA)
o B: System Reset (0xFF)
o C: Control Change (0xB)
o F: System Time Code (0xF1)
o G: System Tune Request (0xF6)
o H: System Song Select (0xF3)
o J: System Common Undefined (0xF4)
o K: System Common Undefined (0xF5)
o N: NoteOff (0x8), NoteOn (0x9)
o P: Program Change (0xC)
o Q: System Sequencer (0xF2, 0xF8, 0xFA, 0xFB, 0xFC)
o T: Channel Aftertouch (0xD)
o V: System Active Sense (0xFE)
o W: Pitch Wheel (0xE)
o X: SysEx (0xF0, 0xF7)
o Y: System Real-Time Undefined (0xF9)
o Z: System Real-Time Undefined (0xFD)
In addition to the letters above, the letter M may also appear in the
command-type list. The letter M refers to the MIDI parameter system
(see definition in Appendix A.1 and in [MIDI]). An assignment of M
to cm_unused codes that no RPN or NRPN transactions may appear in the
MIDI list.
Note that if cm_unused is assigned the letter M, Control Change (0xB)
commands for the controller numbers in the standard controller
assignment might still appear in the MIDI list. For an explanation,
see Appendix A.3.4 for a discussion of the "general-purpose" use of
parameter system controller numbers.
In the text below, rules that apply to "MIDI voice channel commands"
also apply to the letter M.
The letters in the command-type list MUST be uppercase and MUST
appear in alphabetical order. Letters other than
(ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ) that appear in the list MUST be ignored.
For MIDI voice channel commands, the channel list specifies the MIDI
channels for which the parameter applies. If no channel list is
provided, the parameter applies to all MIDI channels (0-15). The
channel list takes the form of a list of channel numbers (0 through
15) and dash-separated channel number ranges (i.e., 0-5, 8-12, etc.).
Dots (i.e., "." characters) separate elements in the channel list.
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Recall that system commands do not have a MIDI channel associated
with them. Thus, for most command-type letters that code system
commands (B, F, G, H, J, K, Q, V, Y, and Z), the channel list is
ignored.
For the command-type letter X, the appearance of certain numbers in
the channel list codes special semantics.
o The digit 0 codes that SysEx "cancel" sublists (Section 3.2 in the
main text) MUST NOT appear in the MIDI list.
o The digit 1 codes that cancel sublists MAY appear in the MIDI list
(the default condition).
o The digit 2 codes that commands other than System Real-Time MIDI
commands MUST NOT appear between SysEx command segments in the
MIDI list (the default condition).
o The digit 3 codes that any MIDI command type may appear between
SysEx command segments in the MIDI list, with the exception of the
segmented encoding of a second SysEx command (verbatim SysEx
commands are OK).
For command-type X, the channel list MUST NOT contain both digits 0
and 1, and it MUST NOT contain both digits 2 and 3. For command-type
X, channel list numbers other than the numbers defined above are
ignored. If X does not have a channel list, the semantics marked
"the default condition" in the list above apply.
The syntax for field lists in a parameter assignment follows the
syntax for channel lists. If no field list is provided, the
parameter applies to all controller or note numbers.
For command-type C (Control Change), the field list codes the
controller numbers (0-255) for which the parameter applies.
For command-type M (Parameter System), the field list codes the RPN
and NRPN controller numbers for which the parameter applies. The
number range 0-16383 specifies RPN controllers, the number range
16384-32767 specifies NRPN controllers (16384 corresponds to NRPN
controller number 0, 32767 corresponds to NRPN controller number
16383).
For command-types N (NoteOn and NoteOff) and A (Poly Aftertouch), the
field list codes the note numbers for which the parameter applies.
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For command-types J and K (System Common Undefined), the field list
consists of a single digit, which specifies the number of data octets
that follow the command octet.
For command-type X (SysEx), the field list codes the number of data
octets that may appear in a SysEx command. Thus, the field list
0-255 specifies SysEx commands with 255 or fewer data octets; the
field list 256-4294967295 specifies SysEx commands with more than 255
data octets but excludes commands with 255 or fewer data octets; and
the field list 0 excludes all commands.
A secondary parameter-assignment syntax customizes command-type X
(see Appendix D for complete ABNF):
<parameter> = "__" <h-list> *( "_" <h-list> ) "__"
The assignment defines the class of SysEx commands that obeys the
semantics of the assigned parameter. The command class is specified
by listing the permitted values of the first N data octets that
follow the SysEx 0xF0 command octet. Any SysEx command whose first N
data octets match the list is a member of the class.
Each <h-list> defines a data octet of the command as a dot-separated
(".") list of one or more hexadecimal constants (such as "7F") or
dash-separated hexadecimal ranges (such as "01-1F"). Underscores
("_") separate each <h-list>. Double-underscores ("__") delineate
the data octet list.
Using this syntax, each assignment specifies a single SysEx command
class. Session descriptions may use several assignments to cm_used
and cm_unused to specify complex behaviors.
The example session description below illustrates the use of the
stream subsetting parameters:
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP6 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=fmtp:96 cm_unused=ACGHJKNMPTVWXYZ; cm_used=__7F_00-7F_01_01__
The session description configures the stream for use in clock
applications. All voice channels are unused, as are all system
commands except those used for MIDI Time Code (command-type F and the
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Full Frame SysEx command that is matched by the string assigned to
cm_used), the System Sequencer commands (command-type Q), and System
Reset (command-type B).
C.2. Configuration Tools: The Journalling System
In this appendix, we define the payload format parameters that
configure stream journalling and the recovery journal system.
The j_sec parameter (Appendix C.2.1) sets the journalling method for
the stream. The j_update parameter (Appendix C.2.2) sets the
recovery journal sending policy for the stream. Appendix C.2.2 also
defines the sending policies of the recovery journal system.
Appendix C.2.3 defines several parameters that modify the recovery
journal semantics. These parameters change the default recovery
journal semantics as defined in Section 5 and Appendices A and B.
The journalling method for a stream is set at the start of a session
and MUST NOT be changed thereafter. This requirement forbids changes
to the j_sec parameter once a session has begun.
A related requirement, defined in the appendices below, forbids the
acceptance of parameter values that would violate the recovery
journal mandate. In many cases, a change in one of the parameters
defined in this appendix during an ongoing session would result in a
violation of the recovery journal mandate for an implementation; in
this case, the parameter change MUST NOT be accepted.
C.2.1. The j_sec Parameter
Section 2.2 defines the default journalling method for a stream.
Streams that use unreliable transport (such as UDP) default to using
the recovery journal. Streams that use reliable transport (such as
TCP) default to not using a journal.
The parameter j_sec may be used to override this default. This memo
defines two symbolic values for j_sec: "none", to indicate that all
stream payloads MUST NOT contain a journal section, and "recj", to
indicate that all stream payloads MUST contain a journal section that
uses the recovery journal format.
For example, the j_sec parameter might be set to "none" for a UDP
stream that travels between two hosts on a local network that is
known to provide reliable datagram delivery.
The session description below configures a UDP stream that does not
use the recovery journal:
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v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=fmtp:96 j_sec=none
Other IETF Standards-Track documents may define alternative journal
formats. These documents MUST define new symbolic values for the
j_sec parameter to signal the use of the format.
Parties MUST NOT accept a j_sec value that violates the recovery
journal mandate (see Section 4 for details). If a session
description uses a j_sec value unknown to the recipient, the
recipient MUST NOT accept the description.
Special j_sec issues arise when sessions are managed by session
management tools (like RTSP, [RFC2326]) that use SDP for "declarative
usage" purposes (see the preamble of Section 6 for details). For
these session management tools, SDP does not code transport details
(such as UDP or TCP) for the session. Instead, server and client
negotiate transport details via other means (for RTSP, the SETUP
method).
In this scenario, the use of the j_sec parameter may be ill-advised,
as the creator of the session description may not yet know the
transport type for the session. In this case, the session
description SHOULD configure the journalling system using the
parameters defined in the remainder of Appendix C.2, but it SHOULD
NOT use j_sec to set the journalling status. Recall that if j_sec
does not appear in the session description, the default method for
choosing the journalling method is in effect (no journal for reliable
transport, recovery journal for unreliable transport).
However, in declarative usage situations where the creator of the
session description knows that journalling is always required or
never required, the session description SHOULD use the j_sec
parameter.
C.2.2. The j_update Parameter
In Section 4, we use the term "sending policy" to describe the method
a sender uses to choose the checkpoint packet identity for each
recovery journal in a stream. In the subsections that follow, we
normatively define three sending policies: anchor, closed-loop, and
open-loop.
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As stated in Section 4, the default sending policy for a stream is
the closed-loop policy. The j_update parameter may be used to
override this default.
We define three symbolic values for j_update: "anchor", to indicate
that the stream uses the anchor sending policy, "open-loop", to
indicate that the stream uses the open-loop sending policy, and
"closed-loop", to indicate that the stream uses the closed-loop
sending policy. See Appendix C.2.3 for examples of session
descriptions that use the j_update parameter.
Parties MUST NOT accept a j_update value that violates the recovery
journal mandate (Section 4).
Other IETF Standards-Track documents may define additional sending
policies for the recovery journal system. These documents MUST
define new symbolic values for the j_update parameter to signal the
use of the new policy. If a session description uses a j_update
value unknown to the recipient, the recipient MUST NOT accept the
description.
C.2.2.1. The anchor Sending Policy
In the anchor policy, the sender uses the first packet in the stream
as the checkpoint packet for all packets in the stream. The anchor
policy satisfies the recovery journal mandate (Section 4), as the
checkpoint history always covers the entire stream.
The anchor policy does not require the use of the RTP Control
Protocol (RTCP, [RFC3550]) or other feedback from receiver to sender.
Senders do not need to take special actions to ensure that received
streams start up free of artifacts, as the recovery journal always
covers the entire history of the stream. Receivers are relieved of
the responsibility of tracking the changing identity of the
checkpoint packet, because the checkpoint packet never changes.
The main drawback of the anchor policy is bandwidth efficiency.
Because the checkpoint history covers the entire stream, the size of
the recovery journals produced by this policy usually exceeds the
journal size of alternative policies. For single-channel MIDI data
streams, the bandwidth overhead of the anchor policy is often
acceptable (see Appendix A.4 of [NMP]). For dense streams, the
closed-loop or open-loop policies may be more appropriate.
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C.2.2.2. The closed-loop Sending Policy
The closed-loop policy is the default policy of the recovery journal
system. For each packet in the stream, the policy lets senders
choose the smallest possible checkpoint history that satisfies the
recovery journal mandate. As smaller checkpoint histories generally
yield smaller recovery journals, the closed-loop policy reduces the
bandwidth of a stream, relative to the anchor policy.
The closed-loop policy relies on feedback from receiver to sender.
The policy assumes that a receiver periodically informs the sender of
the highest sequence number it has seen so far in the stream, coded
in the 32-bit extension format defined in [RFC3550]. For RTCP,
receivers transmit this information in the Extended Highest Sequence
Number Received (EHSNR) field of Receiver Reports. RTCP Sender or
Receiver Reports MUST be sent by any participant in a session with
the closed-loop sending policy, unless another feedback mechanism has
been agreed upon.
The sender may safely use receiver sequence number feedback to guide
checkpoint history management because Section 4 requires that
receivers repair indefinite artifacts whenever a packet loss event
occurs.
We now normatively define the closed-loop policy. At the moment a
sender prepares an RTP packet for transmission, the sender is aware
of R >= 0 receivers for the stream. Senders may become aware of a
receiver via RTCP traffic from the receiver, via RTP packets from a
paired stream sent by the receiver to the sender, via messages from a
session management tool, or by other means. As receivers join and
leave a session, the value of R changes.
Each known receiver k (1 <= k <= R) is associated with a 32-bit
extended packet sequence number M(k), where the extension reflects
the sequence number rollover count of the sender.
If the sender has received at least one feedback report from receiver
k, M(k) is the most recent report of the highest RTP packet sequence
number seen by the receiver, normalized to reflect the rollover count
of the sender.
If the sender has not received a feedback report from the receiver,
M(k) is the extended sequence number of the last packet the sender
transmitted before it became aware of the receiver. If the sender
became aware of this receiver before it sent the first packet in the
stream, M(k) is the extended sequence number of the first packet in
the stream.
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Given this definition of M(k), we now state the closed-loop policy.
When preparing a new packet for transmission, a sender MUST choose a
checkpoint packet with extended sequence number N, such that M(k) >=
(N - 1) for all k, 1 <= k <= R, where R >= 1. The policy does not
restrict sender behavior in the R == 0 (no known receivers) case.
Under the closed-loop policy as defined above, a sender may transmit
packets whose checkpoint history is shorter than the session history
(as defined in Appendix A.1). In this event, a new receiver that
joins the stream may experience indefinite artifacts.
For example, if a Control Change (0xB) command for Channel Volume
(controller number 7) was sent early in a stream, and later a new
receiver joins the session, the closed-loop policy may permit all
packets sent to the new receiver to use a checkpoint history that
does not include the Channel Volume Control Change command. As a
result, the new receiver experiences an indefinite artifact and plays
all notes on a channel too loudly or too softly.
To address this issue, the closed-loop policy states that whenever a
sender becomes aware of a new receiver, the sender MUST determine if
the receiver would be subject to indefinite artifacts under the
closed-loop policy. If so, the sender MUST ensure that the receiver
starts the session free of indefinite artifacts. For example, to
solve the Channel Volume issue described above, the sender may code
the current state of the Channel Volume controller numbers in the
recovery journal Chapter C, until it receives the first RTCP RR
report that signals that a packet containing this Chapter C has been
received.
In satisfying this requirement, senders MAY infer the initial MIDI
state of the receiver from the session description. For example, the
stream example in Section 6.2 has the initial state defined in [MIDI]
for General MIDI.
In a unicast RTP session, a receiver may safely assume that the
sender is aware of its presence as a receiver from the first packet
sent in the RTP stream. However, in other types of RTP sessions
(multicast, conference focus, RTP translator/mixer), a receiver is
often not able to determine if the sender is initially aware of its
presence as a receiver.
To address this issue, the closed-loop policy states that if a
receiver participates in a session where it may have access to a
stream whose sender is not aware of the receiver, the receiver MUST
take actions to ensure that its rendered MIDI performance does not
contain indefinite artifacts. These protections will be necessarily
incomplete. For example, a receiver may monitor the Checkpoint
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Packet Seqnum for uncovered loss events and "err on the side of
caution" with respect to handling stuck notes due to lost MIDI
NoteOff commands, but the receiver is not able to compensate for the
lack of Channel Volume initialization data in the recovery journal.
The receiver MUST NOT discontinue these protective actions until it
is certain that the sender is aware of its presence. If a receiver
is not able to ascertain sender awareness, the receiver MUST continue
these protective actions for the duration of the session.
Note that in a multicast session where all parties are expected to
send and receive, the reception of RTCP receiver reports from the
sender about the RTP stream a receiver is multicasting back is
evidence of the sender's awareness that the RTP stream multicast by
the sender is being monitored by the receiver. Receivers may also
obtain sender awareness evidence from session management tools, or by
other means. In practice, ongoing observation of the Checkpoint
Packet Seqnum to determine if the sender is taking actions to prevent
loss events for a receiver is a good indication of sender awareness,
as is the sudden appearance of recovery journal chapters with
numerous Control Change controller data that was not foreshadowed by
recent commands coded in the MIDI list shortly after sending an RTCP
RR.
The final set of normative closed-loop policy requirements concerns
how senders and receivers handle unplanned disruptions of RTCP
feedback from a receiver to a sender. By "unplanned", we refer to
disruptions that are not due to the signalled termination of an RTP
stream, via an RTCP BYE or via session management tools.
As defined earlier in this section, the closed-loop policy states
that a sender MUST choose a checkpoint packet with extended sequence
number N, such that M(k) >= (N - 1) for all k, 1 <= k <= R, where R
>= 1. If the sender has received at least one feedback report from
receiver k, M(k) is the most recent report of the highest RTP packet
sequence number seen by the receiver, normalized to reflect the
rollover count of the sender.
If this receiver k stops sending feedback to the sender, the M(k)
value used by the sender reflects the last feedback report from the
receiver. As time progresses without feedback from receiver k, this
fixed M(k) value forces the sender to increase the size of the
checkpoint history and thus increases the bandwidth of the stream.
At some point, the sender may need to take action in order to limit
the bandwidth of the stream. In most envisioned uses of RTP MIDI,
long before this point is reached, the SSRC time-out mechanism
defined in [RFC3550] will remove the uncooperative receiver from the
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session (note that the closed-loop policy does not suggest or require
any special sender behavior upon an SSRC time-out, other than the
sender actions related to changing R, described earlier in this
section).
However, in rare situations, the bandwidth of the stream (due to a
lack of feedback reports from the sender) may become too large to
continue sending the stream to the receiver before the SSRC time-out
occurs for the receiver. In this case, the closed-loop policy states
that the sender should invoke the SSRC time-out for the receiver
early.
We now discuss receiver responsibilities in the case of unplanned
disruptions of RTCP feedback from receiver to sender.
In the unicast case, if a sender invokes the SSRC time-out mechanism
for a receiver, the receiver stops receiving packets from the sender.
The sender behavior imposed by the guardtime parameter (Appendix
C.4.2) lets the receiver conclude that an SSRC time-out has occurred
in a reasonable time period.
In this case of a time-out, a receiver MUST keep sending RTCP
feedback, in order to re-establish the RTP flow from the sender.
Unless the receiver expects a prompt recovery of the RTP flow, the
receiver MUST take actions to ensure that the rendered MIDI
performance does not exhibit "very long transient artifacts" (for
example, by silencing NoteOns to prevent stuck notes) while awaiting
reconnection of the flow.
In the multicast case, if a sender invokes the SSRC time-out
mechanism for a receiver, the receiver may continue to receive
packets, but the sender will no longer be using the M(k) feedback
from the receiver to choose each checkpoint packet. If the receiver
does not have additional information that precludes an SSRC time-out
(such as RTCP Receiver Reports from the sender about an RTP stream
the receiver is multicasting back to the sender), the receiver MUST
monitor the Checkpoint Packet Seqnum to detect an SSRC time-out. If
an SSRC time-out is detected, the receiver MUST follow the
instructions for SSRC time-outs described for the unicast case above.
Finally, we note that the closed-loop policy is suitable for use in
RTP/RTCP sessions that use multicast transport. However, aspects of
the closed-loop policy do not scale well to sessions with large
numbers of participants. The sender state scales linearly with the
number of receivers, as the sender needs to track the identity and
M(k) value for each receiver k. The average recovery journal size is
not independent of the number of receivers, as the RTCP reporting
interval backoff slows down the rate of a full update of M(k) values.
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The backoff algorithm may also increase the amount of ancillary state
used by implementations of the normative sender and receiver
behaviors defined in Section 4.
C.2.2.3. The open-loop Sending Policy
The open-loop policy is suitable for sessions that are not able to
implement the receiver-to-sender feedback required by the closed-loop
policy and that are also not able to use the anchor policy because of
bandwidth constraints.
The open-loop policy does not place constraints on how a sender
chooses the checkpoint packet for each packet in the stream. In the
absence of such constraints, a receiver may find that the recovery
journal in the packet that ends a loss event has a checkpoint history
that does not cover the entire loss event. We refer to loss events
of this type as uncovered loss events.
To ensure that uncovered loss events do not compromise the recovery
journal mandate, the open-loop policy assigns specific recovery tasks
to senders, receivers, and the creators of session descriptions. The
underlying premise of the open-loop policy is that the indefinite
artifacts produced during uncovered loss events fall into two
classes.
One class of artifacts is recoverable indefinite artifacts.
Receivers are able to repair recoverable artifacts that occur during
an uncovered loss event without intervention from the sender, at the
potential cost of unpleasant transient artifacts.
For example, after an uncovered loss event, receivers are able to
repair indefinite artifacts due to NoteOff (0x8) commands that may
have occurred during the loss event, by executing NoteOff commands
for all active NoteOns commands. This action causes a transient
artifact (a sudden silent period in the performance) but ensures that
no stuck notes sound indefinitely. We refer to MIDI commands that
are amenable to repair in this fashion as recoverable MIDI commands.
A second class of artifacts is unrecoverable indefinite artifacts.
If this class of artifact occurs during an uncovered loss event, the
receiver is not able to repair the stream.
For example, after an uncovered loss event, receivers are not able to
repair indefinite artifacts due to Control Change (0xB) Channel
Volume (controller number 7) commands that have occurred during the
loss event. A repair is impossible because the receiver has no way
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of determining the data value of a lost Channel Volume command. We
refer to MIDI commands that are fragile in this way as unrecoverable
MIDI commands.
The open-loop policy does not specify how to partition the MIDI
command set into recoverable and unrecoverable commands. Instead, it
assumes that the creators of the session descriptions are able to
come to agreement on a suitable recoverable/unrecoverable MIDI
command partition for an application.
Given these definitions, we now state the normative requirements for
the open-loop policy.
In the open-loop policy, the creators of the session description MUST
use the ch_anchor parameter (defined in Appendix C.2.3) to protect
all unrecoverable MIDI command types from indefinite artifacts or
alternatively MUST use the cm_unused parameter (defined in Appendix
C.1) to exclude the command types from the stream. These options act
to shield command types from artifacts during an uncovered loss
event.
In the open-loop policy, receivers MUST examine the Checkpoint Packet
Seqnum field of the recovery journal header after every loss event,
to check if the loss event is an uncovered loss event. Section 5
shows how to perform this check. If an uncovered loss event has
occurred, a receiver MUST perform indefinite artifact recovery for
all MIDI command types that are not shielded by ch_anchor and
cm_unused parameter assignments in the session description.
The open-loop policy does not place specific constraints on the
sender. However, the open-loop policy works best if the sender
manages the size of the checkpoint history to ensure that uncovered
losses occur infrequently, by taking into account the delay and loss
characteristics of the network. Also, as each checkpoint packet
change incurs the risk of an uncovered loss, senders should only move
the checkpoint if it reduces the size of the journal.
C.2.3. Recovery Journal Chapter Inclusion Parameters
The recovery journal chapter definitions (Appendices A and B) specify
under what conditions a chapter MUST appear in the recovery journal.
In most cases, the definition states that if a certain command
appears in the checkpoint history, a certain chapter type MUST appear
in the recovery journal to protect the command.
In this section, we describe the chapter inclusion parameters. These
parameters modify the conditions under which a chapter appears in the
journal. These parameters are essential to the use of the open-loop
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policy (Appendix C.2.2.3) and may also be used to simplify
implementations of the closed-loop (Appendix C.2.2.2) and anchor
(Appendix C.2.2.1) policies.
Each parameter represents a type of chapter inclusion semantics. An
assignment to a parameter declares which chapters (or chapter
subsets) obey the inclusion semantics. We describe the assignment
syntax for these parameters later in this section.
A party MUST NOT accept chapter inclusion parameter values that
violate the recovery journal mandate (Section 4). All assignments of
the subsetting parameters (cm_used and cm_unused) MUST precede the
first assignment of a chapter inclusion parameter in the parameter
list.
Below, we normatively define the semantics of the chapter inclusion
parameters. For clarity, we define the action of parameters on
complete chapters. If a parameter is assigned a subset of a chapter,
the definition applies only to the chapter subset.
o ch_never. A chapter assigned to the ch_never parameter MUST NOT
appear in the recovery journal (Appendices A.4.1 and A.4.2 define
exceptions to this rule for Chapter M). To signal the exclusion
of a chapter from the journal, an assignment to ch_never MUST be
made, even if the commands coded by the chapter are assigned to
cm_unused. This rule simplifies the handling of commands types
that may be coded in several chapters.
o ch_default. A chapter assigned to the ch_default parameter MUST
follow the default semantics for the chapter, as defined in
Appendices A and B.
o ch_anchor. A chapter assigned to the ch_anchor MUST obey a
modified version of the default chapter semantics. In the
modified semantics, all references to the checkpoint history are
replaced with references to the session history, and all
references to the checkpoint packet are replaced with references
to the first packet sent in the stream.
Parameter assignments obey the following syntax (see Appendix D for
ABNF):
<parameter> = [channel list]<chapter list>[field list]
The chapter list is mandatory; the channel and field lists are
optional. Multiple assignments to parameters have a cumulative
effect and are applied in the order of parameter appearance in a
media description.
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To determine the semantics of a list of chapter inclusion parameter
assignments, we begin by assuming an implicit assignment of all
channel and system chapters to the ch_default parameter, with the
default values for the channel list and field list for each chapter
that are defined below.
We then interpret the semantics of the actual parameter assignments,
using the rules below.
A later assignment of a chapter to the same parameter expands the
scope of the earlier assignment. In most cases, a later assignment
of a chapter to a different parameter cancels (partially or
completely) the effect of an earlier assignment.
The chapter list specifies the channel or system chapters for which
the parameter applies. The chapter list is a concatenated sequence
of one or more of the letters corresponding to the chapter types
(ACDEFMNPQTVWX). In addition, the list may contain one or more of
the letters for the subchapter types (BGHJKYZ) of System Chapter D.
The letters in a chapter list MUST be uppercase and MUST appear in
alphabetical order. Letters other than (ABCDEFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ) that
appear in the chapter list MUST be ignored.
The channel list specifies the channel journals for which this
parameter applies; if no channel list is provided, the parameter
applies to all channel journals. The channel list takes the form of
a list of channel numbers (0 through 15) and dash-separated channel
number ranges (i.e., 0-5, 8-12, etc.). Dots (i.e., "." characters)
separate elements in the channel list.
Several of the system chapters may be configured to have special
semantics. Configuration occurs by specifying a channel list for the
system channel, using the coding described below. (Note that MIDI
system commands do not have a "channel" and thus the original purpose
of the channel list does not apply to system chapters). The
expression "the digit N" in the text below refers to the inclusion of
N as a "channel" in the channel list for a system chapter.
For the J and K Chapter D subchapters (undefined System Common), the
digit 0 codes that the parameter applies to the LEGAL field of the
associated command log (Figure B.1.4 of Appendix B.1), the digit 1
codes that the parameter applies to the VALUE field of the command
log, and the digit 2 codes that the parameter applies to the COUNT
field of the command log.
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For the Y and Z Chapter D subchapters (undefined System Real-Time),
the digit 0 codes that the parameter applies to the LEGAL field of
the associated command log (Figure B.1.5 of Appendix B.1) and the
digit 1 codes that the parameter applies to the COUNT field of the
command log.
For Chapter Q (Sequencer State Commands), the digit 0 codes that the
parameter applies to the default Chapter Q definition, which forbids
the TIME field. The digit 1 codes that the parameter applies to the
optional Chapter Q definition, which supports the TIME field.
The syntax for field lists follows the syntax for channel lists. If
no field list is provided, the parameter applies to all controller or
note numbers. For Chapter C, if no field list is provided, the
controller numbers do not use enhanced Chapter C encoding (Appendix
A.3.3).
For Chapter C, the field list may take on values in the range 0 to
255. A field value X in the range 0-127 refers to a controller
number X and indicates that the controller number does not use
enhanced Chapter C encoding. A field value X in the range 128-255
refers to a controller number "X minus 128" and indicates the
controller number does use the enhanced Chapter C encoding.
Assignments made to configure the Chapter C encoding method for a
controller number MUST be made to the ch_default or ch_anchor
parameters, as assignments to ch_never act to exclude the number from
the recovery journal (and thus the indicated encoding method is
irrelevant).
A Chapter C field list MUST NOT encode conflicting information about
the enhanced encoding status of a particular controller number. For
example, values 0 and 128 MUST NOT both be coded by a field list.
For Chapter M, the field list codes the RPN and NRPN controller
numbers for which the parameter applies. The number range 0-16383
specifies RPN controller numbers, the number range 16384-32767
specifies NRPN controller numbers (16384 corresponds to NRPN
controller number 0, 32767 corresponds to NRPN controller number
16383).
For Chapters N and A, the field list codes the note numbers for which
the parameter applies. The note number range specified for Chapter N
also applies to Chapter E.
For Chapter E, the digit 0 codes that the parameter applies to
Chapter E note logs whose V bit is set to 0, and the digit 1 codes
that the parameter applies to note logs whose V bit is set to 1.
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For Chapter X, the field list codes the number of data octets that
may appear in a SysEx command that is coded in the chapter. Thus,
the field list 0-255 specifies SysEx commands with 255 or fewer data
octets, the field list 256-4294967295 specifies SysEx commands with
more than 255 data octets but excludes commands with 255 or fewer
data octets, and the field list 0 excludes all commands.
A secondary parameter assignment syntax customizes Chapter X (see
Appendix D for complete ABNF):
<parameter> = "__" <h-list> *( "_" <h-list> ) "__"
The assignment defines a class of SysEx commands whose Chapter X
coding obeys the semantics of the assigned parameter. The command
class is specified by listing the permitted values of the first N
data octets that follow the SysEx 0xF0 command octet. Any SysEx
command whose first N data octets match the list is a member of the
class.
Each <h-list> defines a data octet of the command as a dot-separated
(".") list of one or more hexadecimal constants (such as "7F") or
dash-separated hexadecimal ranges (such as "01-1F"). Underscores
("_") separate each <h-list>. Double-underscores ("__") delineate
the data octet list.
Using this syntax, each assignment specifies a single SysEx command
class. Session descriptions may use several assignments to the same
(or different) parameters to specify complex Chapter X behaviors.
The ordering behavior of multiple assignments follows the guidelines
for chapter parameter assignments described earlier in this section.
The example session description below illustrates the use of the
chapter inclusion parameters:
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP6 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=fmtp:96 j_update=open-loop; cm_unused=ABCFGHJKMQTVWXYZ;
cm_used=__7E_00-7F_09_01.02.03__;
cm_used=__7F_00-7F_04_01.02__; cm_used=C7.64;
ch_never=ABCDEFGHJKMQTVWXYZ; ch_never=4.11-13N;
ch_anchor=P; ch_anchor=C7.64;
ch_anchor=__7E_00-7F_09_01.02.03__;
ch_anchor=__7F_00-7F_04_01.02__
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(The a=fmtp line has been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate memo
formatting restrictions; it comprises a single line in SDP.)
The j_update parameter codes that the stream uses the open-loop
policy. Most MIDI command-types are assigned to cm_unused and thus
do not appear in the stream. As a consequence, the assignments to
the first ch_never parameter reflect that most chapters are not in
use.
Chapter N for several MIDI channels is assigned to ch_never. Chapter
N for MIDI channels other than 4, 11, 12, and 13 may appear in the
recovery journal, using the (default) ch_default semantics. In
practice, this assignment pattern would reflect knowledge about a
resilient rendering method in use for the excluded channels.
The MIDI Program Change command and several MIDI Control Change
controller numbers are assigned to ch_anchor. Note that the ordering
of the ch_anchor Chapter C assignment after the ch_never command acts
to override the ch_never assignment for the listed controller numbers
(7 and 64).
The assignment of command-type X to cm_unused excludes most SysEx
commands from the stream. Exceptions are made for General MIDI
System On/Off commands and for the Master Volume and Balance
commands, via the use of the secondary assignment syntax. The
cm_used assignment codes the exception, and the ch_anchor assignment
codes how these commands are protected in Chapter X.
C.3. Configuration Tools: Timestamp Semantics
The MIDI command section of the payload format consists of a list of
commands, each with an associated timestamp. The semantics of
command timestamps may be set during session configuration using the
parameters we describe in this section.
The parameter tsmode specifies the timestamp semantics for a stream.
The parameter takes on one of three token values: "comex", "async",
or "buffer".
The default "comex" value specifies that timestamps code the
execution time for a command (Appendix C.3.1) and supports the
accurate transcoding of Standard MIDI Files (SMFs, [MIDI]). The
"comex" value is also RECOMMENDED for new MIDI user-interface
controller designs. The "async" value specifies an asynchronous
timestamp sampling algorithm for time-of-arrival sources (Appendix
C.3.2). The "buffer" value specifies a synchronous timestamp
sampling algorithm (Appendix C.3.3) for time-of-arrival sources.
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Ancillary parameters MAY follow tsmode in a media description. We
define these parameters in Appendices C.3.2 and C.3.3.
C.3.1. The comex Algorithm
The default "comex" (COMmand EXecution) tsmode value specifies the
execution time for the command. With comex, the difference between
two timestamps indicates the time delay between the execution of the
commands. This difference may be zero, coding simultaneous
execution.
The comex interpretation of timestamps works well for transcoding a
Standard MIDI File (SMF, [MIDI]) into an RTP MIDI stream, as SMFs
code a timestamp for each MIDI command stored in the file. To
transcode an SMF that uses metric time markers, use the SMF tempo map
(encoded in the SMF as meta-events) to convert metric SMF timestamp
units into seconds-based RTP timestamp units.
New MIDI controller designs (piano keyboard, drum pads, etc.) that
support RTP MIDI and that have direct access to sensor data SHOULD
use comex interpretation for timestamps so that simultaneous gestural
events may be accurately coded by RTP MIDI.
Comex is a poor choice for transcoding MIDI 1.0 DIN cables [MIDI],
for a reason that we will now explain. A MIDI DIN cable is an
asynchronous serial protocol (320 microseconds per MIDI byte). MIDI
commands on a DIN cable are not tagged with timestamps. Instead,
MIDI DIN receivers infer command timing from the time of arrival of
the bytes. Thus, two two-byte MIDI commands that occur at a source
simultaneously are encoded on a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable with a 640
microsecond time offset. A MIDI DIN receiver is unable to tell if
this time offset existed in the source performance or is an artifact
of the serial speed of the cable. However, the RTP MIDI comex
interpretation of timestamps declares that a timestamp offset between
two commands reflects the timing of the source performance.
This semantic mismatch is the reason that comex is a poor choice for
transcoding MIDI DIN cables. Note that the choice of the RTP
timestamp rate (Sections 6.1 and 6.2 in the main text) cannot fix
this inaccuracy issue. In the sections that follow, we describe two
alternative timestamp interpretations ("async" and "buffer") that are
a better match to MIDI 1.0 DIN cable timing and to other MIDI time-
of-arrival sources.
The octpos, linerate, and mperiod ancillary parameters (defined
below) SHOULD NOT be used with comex.
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C.3.2. The async Algorithm
The "async" tsmode value specifies the asynchronous sampling of a
MIDI time-of-arrival source. In asynchronous sampling, the moment an
octet is received from a source, it is labelled with a wall-clock
time value. The time value has RTP timestamp units.
The octpos ancillary parameter defines how RTP command timestamps are
derived from octet time values. If octpos has the token value
"first", a timestamp codes the time value of the first octet of the
command. If octpos has the token value "last", a timestamp codes the
time value of the last octet of the command. If the octpos parameter
does not appear in the media description, the sender does not know
which octet of the command the timestamp references (for example, the
sender may be relying on an operating system service that does not
specify this information).
The octpos semantics refer to the first or last octet of a command as
it appears on a time-of-arrival MIDI source, not as it appears in an
RTP MIDI packet. This distinction is significant because the RTP
coding may contain octets that are not present in the source. For
example, the status octet of the first MIDI command in a packet may
have been added to the MIDI stream during transcoding to comply with
the RTP MIDI running status requirements (Section 3.2).
The linerate ancillary parameter defines the timespan of one MIDI
octet on the transmission medium of the MIDI source to be sampled
(such as a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable). The parameter has units of
nanoseconds and takes on integral values. For MIDI 1.0 DIN cables,
the correct linerate value is 320000 (this value is also the default
value for the parameter).
We now show a session description example for the async algorithm.
Consider a sender that is transcoding a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable source
into RTP. The sender runs on a computing platform that assigns time
values to every incoming octet of the source, and the sender uses the
time values to label the first octet of each command in the RTP
packet. This session description describes the transcoding:
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=sendonly
a=fmtp:96 tsmode=async; linerate=320000; octpos=first
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C.3.3. The buffer Algorithm
The "buffer" tsmode value specifies the synchronous sampling of a
MIDI time-of-arrival source.
In synchronous sampling, octets received from a source are placed in
a holding buffer upon arrival. At periodic intervals, the RTP sender
examines the buffer. The sender removes complete commands from the
buffer and codes those commands in an RTP packet. The command
timestamp codes the moment of buffer examination, expressed in RTP
timestamp units. Note that several commands may have the same
timestamp value.
The mperiod ancillary parameter defines the nominal periodic sampling
interval. The parameter takes on positive integral values and has
RTP timestamp units.
The octpos ancillary parameter, defined in Appendix C.3.2 for
asynchronous sampling, plays a different role in synchronous
sampling. In synchronous sampling, the parameter specifies the
timestamp semantics of a command whose octets span several sampling
periods.
If octpos has the token value "first", the timestamp reflects the
arrival period of the first octet of the command. If octpos has the
token value "last", the timestamp reflects the arrival period of the
last octet of the command. The octpos semantics refer to the first
or last octet of the command as it appears on a time-of-arrival
source, not as it appears in the RTP packet.
If the octpos parameter does not appear in the media description, the
timestamp MAY reflect the arrival period of any octet of the command;
senders use this option to signal a lack of knowledge about the
timing details of the buffering process at subcommand granularity.
We now show a session description example for the buffer algorithm.
Consider a sender that is transcoding a MIDI 1.0 DIN cable source
into RTP. The sender runs on a computing platform that places source
data into a buffer upon receipt. The sender polls the buffer 1000
times a second, extracts all complete commands from the buffer, and
places the commands in an RTP packet. This session description
describes the transcoding:
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v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP6 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=sendonly
a=fmtp:96 tsmode=buffer; linerate=320000; octpos=last; mperiod=44
The mperiod value of 44 is derived by dividing the clock rate
specified by the rtpmap attribute (44100 Hz) by the 1000 Hz buffer
sampling rate and rounding to the nearest integer. Command
timestamps might not increment by exact multiples of 44, as the
actual sampling period might not precisely match the nominal mperiod
value.
C.4. Configuration Tools: Packet Timing Tools
In this appendix, we describe session configuration tools for
customizing the temporal behavior of MIDI stream packets.
C.4.1. Packet Duration Tools
Senders control the granularity of a stream by setting the temporal
duration ("media time") of the packets in the stream. Short media
times (20 ms or less) often imply an interactive session. Longer
media times (100 ms or more) usually indicate a content-streaming
session. The RTP AVP profile [RFC3551] recommends audio packet media
times in a range from 0 to 200 ms.
By default, an RTP receiver dynamically senses the media time of
packets in a stream and chooses the length of its playout buffer to
match the stream. A receiver typically sizes its playout buffer to
fit several audio packets and adjusts the buffer length to reflect
the network jitter and the sender timing fidelity.
Alternatively, the packet media time may be statically set during
session configuration. Session descriptions MAY use the RTP MIDI
parameter rtp_ptime to set the recommended media time for a packet.
Session descriptions MAY also use the RTP MIDI parameter rtp_maxptime
to set the maximum media time for a packet permitted in a stream.
Both parameters MAY be used together to configure a stream.
The values assigned to the rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime parameters have
the units of the RTP timestamp for the stream, as set by the rtpmap
attribute (see Section 6.1). Thus, if rtpmap sets the clock rate of
a stream to 44100 Hz, a maximum packet media time of 10 ms is coded
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by setting rtp_maxptime=441. As stated in the Appendix C preamble,
the senders and receivers of a stream MUST agree on common values for
rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime if the parameters appear in the media
description for the stream.
0 ms is a reasonable media time value for MIDI packets and is often
used in low-latency interactive applications. In a packet with a 0
ms media time, all commands execute at the instant they are coded by
the packet timestamp. The session description below configures all
packets in the stream to have 0 ms media time:
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=fmtp:96 rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=0
The session attributes ptime and maxptime [RFC4566] MUST NOT be used
to configure an RTP MIDI stream. Sessions MUST use rtp_ptime in lieu
of ptime and MUST use rtp_maxptime in lieu of maxptime. RTP MIDI
defines its own parameters for media time configuration because 0 ms
values for ptime and maxptime are forbidden by [RFC3264] but are
essential for certain applications of RTP MIDI.
See the Appendix C.7 examples for additional discussion about using
rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime for session configuration.
C.4.2. The guardtime Parameter
RTP permits a sender to stop sending audio packets for an arbitrary
period of time during a session. When sending resumes, the RTP
sequence number series continues unbroken, and the RTP timestamp
value reflects the media time silence gap.
This RTP feature has its roots in telephony, but it is also well-
matched to interactive MIDI sessions, as players may fall silent for
several seconds during (or between) songs.
Certain MIDI applications benefit from a slight enhancement to this
RTP feature. In interactive applications, receivers may use online
network models to guide heuristics for handling lost and late RTP
packets. These models may work poorly if a sender ceases packet
transmission for long periods of time.
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Session descriptions may use the parameter guardtime to set a minimum
sending rate for a media session. The value assigned to guardtime
codes the maximum separation time between two sequential packets, as
expressed in RTP timestamp units.
Typical guardtime values are 500-2000 ms. This value range is not a
normative bound, and parties SHOULD be prepared to process values
outside this range.
The congestion control requirements for sender implementations
(described in Section 8 and [RFC3550]) take precedence over the
guardtime parameter. Thus, if the guardtime parameter requests a
minimum sending rate, but sending at this rate would violate the
congestion control requirements, senders MUST ignore the guardtime
parameter value. In this case, senders SHOULD use the lowest minimum
sending rate that satisfies the congestion control requirements.
Below, we show a session description that uses the guardtime
parameter.
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t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 rtp-midi/44100
a=fmtp:96 guardtime=44100; rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=0
C.5. Configuration Tools: Stream Description
As we discussed in Section 2.1, a party may send several RTP MIDI
streams in the same RTP session, and several RTP sessions that carry
MIDI may appear in a multimedia session.
By default, the MIDI name space (16 channels + systems) of each RTP
stream sent by a party in a multimedia session is independent. By
independent, we mean three distinct things:
o If a party sends two RTP MIDI streams (A and B), MIDI voice
channel 0 in stream A is a different "channel 0" than MIDI voice
channel 0 in stream B.
o MIDI voice channel 0 in stream B is not considered to be "channel
16" of a 32-channel MIDI voice channel space whose "channel 0" is
channel 0 of stream A.
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o Streams sent by different parties over different RTP sessions, or
over the same RTP session but with different payload type numbers,
do not share the association that is shared by a MIDI cable pair
that cross-connects two devices in a MIDI 1.0 DIN network. By
default, this association is only held by streams sent by
different parties in the same RTP session that use the same
payload type number.
In this appendix, we show how to express that specific RTP MIDI
streams in a multimedia session are not independent but instead are
related in one of the three ways defined above. We use two tools to
express these relations:
o The musicport parameter. This parameter is assigned a non-
negative integer value between 0 and 4294967295. It appears in
the fmtp lines of payload types.
o The FID grouping attribute [RFC5888] signals that several RTP
sessions in a multimedia session are using the musicport parameter
to express an inter-session relationship.
If a multimedia session has several payload types whose musicport
parameters are assigned the same integer value, streams using these
payload types share an "identity relationship" (including streams
that use the same payload type). Streams in an identity relationship
share two properties:
o Identity relationship streams sent by the same party target the
same MIDI name space. Thus, if streams A and B share an identity
relationship, voice channel 0 in stream A is the same "channel 0"
as voice channel 0 in stream B.
o Pairs of identity relationship streams that are sent by different
parties share the association that is shared by a MIDI cable pair
that cross-connects two devices in a MIDI 1.0 DIN network.
A party MUST NOT send two RTP MIDI streams that share an identity
relationship in the same RTP session. Instead, each stream MUST be
in a separate RTP session. As explained in Section 2.1, this
restriction is necessary to support the RTP MIDI method for the
synchronization of streams that share a MIDI name space.
If a multimedia session has several payload types whose musicport
parameters are assigned sequential values (i.e., i, i+1, ... i+k),
the streams using the payload types share an "ordered relationship".
For example, if payload type A assigns 2 to musicport and payload
type B assigns 3 to musicport, A and B are in an ordered
relationship.
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Streams in an ordered relationship that are sent by the same party
are considered by renderers to form a single larger MIDI space. For
example, if stream A has a musicport value of 2 and stream B has a
musicport value of 3, MIDI voice channel 0 in stream B is considered
to be voice channel 16 in the larger MIDI space formed by the
relationship. Note that it is possible for streams to participate in
both an identity relationship and an ordered relationship.
We now state several rules for using musicport:
o If streams from several RTP sessions in a multimedia session use
the musicport parameter, the RTP sessions MUST be grouped using
the FID grouping attribute defined in [RFC5888].
o An ordered or identity relationship MUST NOT contain both native
RTP MIDI streams and mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams. An exception
applies if a relationship consists of sendonly and recvonly (but
not sendrecv) streams. In this case, the sendonly streams MUST
NOT contain both types of streams, and the recvonly streams MUST
NOT contain both types of streams.
o It is possible to construct identity relationships that violate
the recovery journal mandate (for example, sending NoteOns for a
voice channel on stream A and NoteOffs for the same voice channel
on stream B). Parties MUST NOT generate (or accept) session
descriptions that exhibit this flaw.
o Other payload formats MAY define musicport media type parameters.
Formats would define these parameters so that their sessions could
be bundled into RTP MIDI name spaces. The parameter definitions
MUST be compatible with the musicport semantics defined in this
appendix.
As a rule, at most one payload type in a relationship may specify a
MIDI renderer. An exception to the rule applies to relationships
that contain sendonly and recvonly streams but no sendrecv streams.
In this case, one sendonly session and one recvonly session may each
define a renderer.
Renderer specification in a relationship may be done using the tools
described in Appendix C.6. These tools work for both native streams
and mpeg4-generic streams. An mpeg4-generic stream that uses the
Appendix C.6 tools MUST set all "config" parameters to the empty
string ("").
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Alternatively, for mpeg4-generic streams, renderer specification may
be done by setting one "config" parameter in the relationship to the
renderer configuration string and all other config parameters to the
empty string ("").
We now define sender and receiver rules that apply when a party sends
several streams that target the same MIDI name space.
Senders MAY use the subsetting parameters (Appendix C.1) to predefine
the partitioning of commands between streams, or they MAY use a
dynamic partitioning strategy.
Receivers that merge identity relationship streams into a single MIDI
command stream MUST maintain the structural integrity of the MIDI
commands coded in each stream during the merging process, in the same
way that software that merges traditional MIDI 1.0 DIN cable flows is
responsible for creating a merged command flow compatible with
[MIDI].
Senders MUST partition the name space so that the rendered MIDI
performance does not contain indefinite artifacts (as defined in
Section 4). This responsibility holds even if all streams are sent
over reliable transport, as different stream latencies may yield
indefinite artifacts. For example, stuck notes may occur in a
performance split over two TCP streams, if NoteOn commands are sent
on one stream and NoteOff commands are sent on the other.
Senders MUST NOT split a Registered Parameter Numbers (RPN) or Non-
Registered Parameter Numbers (NRPN) transaction appearing on a MIDI
channel across multiple identity relationship sessions. Receivers
MUST assume that the RPN/NRPN transactions that appear on different
identity relationship sessions are independent and MUST preserve
transactional integrity during the MIDI merge.
A simple way to safely partition voice channel commands is to place
all MIDI commands for a particular voice channel into the same
session. Safe partitioning of MIDI system commands may be more
complicated for sessions that extensively use System Exclusive.
We now show several session description examples that use the
musicport parameter.
Our first session description example shows two RTP MIDI streams that
drive the same General MIDI decoder. The sender partitions MIDI
commands between the streams dynamically. The musicport values
indicate that the streams share an identity relationship.
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s=Example
t=0 0
a=group:FID 1 2
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=mid:1
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; profile-level-id=12;
config=7A0A0000001A4D546864000000060000000100604D54726B0
000000600FF2F000; musicport=12
m=audio 5006 RTP/AVP 96
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=mid:2
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; musicport=12
(The a=fmtp lines have been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate
memo formatting restrictions; they comprise single lines in SDP.)
Recall that Section 2.1 defines rules for streams that target the
same MIDI name space. Those rules, implemented in the example above,
require that each stream resides in a separate RTP session and that
the grouping mechanisms defined in [RFC5888] signal an inter-session
relationship. The "group" and "mid" attribute lines implement this
grouping mechanism.
A variant on this example, whose session description is not shown,
would use two streams in an identity relationship driving the same
MIDI renderer, each with a different transport type. One stream
would use UDP and would be dedicated to real-time messages. A second
stream would use TCP [RFC4571] and would be used for SysEx bulk data
messages.
In the next example, two mpeg4-generic streams form an ordered
relationship to drive a Structured Audio decoder with 32 MIDI voice
channels. Both streams reside in the same RTP session.
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s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5006 RTP/AVP 96 97
c=IN IP6 2001:DB8::7F2E:172A:1E24
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=13; musicport=5
a=rtpmap:97 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:97 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=13; musicport=6; render=synthetic;
rinit=audio/asc;
url="http://example.com/cardinal.asc";
cid="azsldkaslkdjqpwojdkmsldkfpe"
(The a=fmtp lines have been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate
memo formatting restrictions; they comprise single lines in SDP.)
The sequential musicport values for the two sessions establish the
ordered relationship. The musicport=5 session maps to Structured
Audio extended channels range 0-15; the musicport=6 session maps to
Structured Audio extended channels range 16-31.
Both config strings are empty. The configuration data is specified
by parameters that appear in the fmtp line of the second media
description. We define this configuration method in Appendix C.6.
The next example shows two RTP MIDI streams (one recvonly, one
sendonly) that form a "virtual sendrecv" session. Each stream
resides in a different RTP session (a requirement because sendonly
and recvonly are RTP session attributes).
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s=Example
t=0 0
a=group:FID 1 2
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
a=sendonly
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=mid:1
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; profile-level-id=12;
config=7A0A0000001A4D546864000000060000000100604D54726B0
000000600FF2F000; musicport=12
m=audio 5006 RTP/AVP 96
a=recvonly
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=mid:2
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; profile-level-id=12;
config=7A0A0000001A4D546864000000060000000100604D54726B0
000000600FF2F000; musicport=12
(The a=fmtp lines have been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate
memo formatting restrictions; they comprise single lines in SDP.)
To signal the "virtual sendrecv" semantics, the two streams assign
musicport to the same value (12). As defined earlier in this
section, pairs of identity relationship streams that are sent by
different parties share the association that is shared by a MIDI
cable pair that cross-connects two devices in a MIDI 1.0 network. We
use the term "virtual sendrecv" because streams sent by different
parties in a true sendrecv session also have this property.
As discussed in the preamble to Appendix C, the primary advantage of
the virtual sendrecv configuration is that each party can customize
the property of the stream it receives. In the example above, each
stream defines its own "config" string that could customize the
rendering algorithm for each party (in fact, the particular strings
shown in this example are identical, because General MIDI is not a
configurable MPEG 4 renderer).
C.6. Configuration Tools: MIDI Rendering
This appendix defines the session configuration tools for rendering.
The render parameter specifies a rendering method for a stream. The
parameter is assigned a token value that signals the top-level
rendering class. This memo defines four token values for render:
"unknown", "synthetic", "api", and "null":
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o An "unknown" renderer is a renderer whose nature is unspecified.
It is the default renderer for native RTP MIDI streams.
o A "synthetic" renderer transforms the MIDI stream into audio
output (or sometimes into stage lighting changes or other
actions). It is the default renderer for mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI
streams.
o An "api" renderer presents the command stream to applications via
an Application Programming Interface (API).
o The "null" renderer discards the MIDI stream.
The "null" render value plays special roles during Offer/Answer
negotiations [RFC3264]. A party uses the "null" value in an answer
to reject an offered renderer. Note that rejecting a renderer is
independent from rejecting a payload type (coded by removing the
payload type from a media line) and rejecting a media stream (coded
by zeroing the port of a media line that uses the renderer).
Other render token values MAY be registered with IANA. The token
value MUST adhere to the ABNF for render tokens defined in Appendix
D. Registrations MUST include a complete specification of parameter
value usage, similar in depth to the specifications that appear
throughout Appendix C.6 for "synthetic" and "api" render values. If
a party is offered a session description that uses a render token
value that is not known to the party, the party MUST NOT accept the
renderer. Options include rejecting the renderer (using the "null"
value), the payload type, the media stream, or the session
description.
Other parameters MAY follow a render parameter in a parameter list.
The additional parameters act to define the exact nature of the
renderer. For example, the subrender parameter (defined in Appendix
C.6.2) specifies the exact nature of the renderer.
Special rules apply to using the render parameter in an mpeg4-generic
stream. We define these rules in Appendix C.6.5.
C.6.1. The multimode Parameter
A media description MAY contain several render parameters. By
default, if a parameter list includes several render parameters, a
receiver MUST choose exactly one renderer from the list to render the
stream. The multimode parameter may be used to override this
default. We define two token values for multimode: "one" and "all".
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o The default "one" value requests rendering by exactly one of the
listed renderers.
o The "all" value requests the synchronized rendering of the RTP
MIDI stream by all listed renderers, if possible.
If the multimode parameter appears in a parameter list, it MUST
appear before the first render parameter assignment.
Render parameters appear in the parameter list in order of decreasing
priority. A receiver MAY use the priority ordering to decide which
renderer(s) to retain in a session.
If the "offer" in an Offer/Answer-style negotiation [RFC3264]
contains a parameter list with one or more render parameters, the
"answer" MUST set the render parameters of all unchosen renderers to
"null".
C.6.2. Renderer Specification
The render parameter (Appendix C.6 preamble) specifies, in a broad
sense, what a renderer does with a MIDI stream. In this appendix, we
describe the subrender parameter. The token value assigned to
subrender defines the exact nature of the renderer. Thus, render and
subrender combine to define a renderer, in the same way as MIME types
and MIME subtypes combine to define a type of media [RFC2045].
If the subrender parameter is used for a renderer definition, it MUST
appear immediately after the render parameter in the parameter list.
At most, one subrender parameter may appear in a renderer definition.
This document defines one value for subrender: the value "default".
The "default" token specifies the use of the default renderer for the
stream type (native or mpeg4-generic). The default renderer for
native RTP MIDI streams is a renderer whose nature is unspecified
(see point 6 in Section 6.1 for details). The default renderer for
mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams is an MPEG 4 Audio Object Type whose
ID number is 13, 14, or 15 (see Section 6.2 for details).
If a renderer definition does not use the subrender parameter, the
value "default" is assumed for subrender.
Other subrender token values may be registered with IANA. We now
discuss guidelines for registering subrender values.
A subrender value is registered for a specific stream type (native or
mpeg4-generic) and a specific render value (excluding "null" and
"unknown"). Registrations for mpeg4-generic subrender values are
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restricted to new MPEG 4 Audio Object Types that accept MIDI input.
The syntax of the token MUST adhere to the token definition in
Appendix D.
For "render=synthetic" renderers, a subrender value registration
specifies an exact method for transforming the MIDI stream into audio
(or sometimes into video or control actions, such as stage lighting).
For standardized renderers, this specification is usually a pointer
to a standards document, perhaps supplemented by RTP-MIDI-specific
information. For commercial products and open-source projects, this
specification usually takes the form of instructions for interfacing
the RTP MIDI stream with the product or project software. A
"render=synthetic" registration MAY specify additional Reset State
commands for the renderer (Appendix A.1).
A "render=api" subrender value registration specifies how an RTP MIDI
stream interfaces with an API. This specification is usually a
pointer to programmer's documentation for the API, perhaps
supplemented by RTP-MIDI-specific information.
A subrender registration MAY specify an initialization file (referred
to in this document as an initialization data object) for the stream.
The initialization data object MAY be encoded in the parameter list
(verbatim or by reference) using the coding tools defined in Appendix
C.6.3. An initialization data object MUST have a registered
[RFC4288] media type and subtype [RFC2045].
For "render=synthetic" renderers, the data object usually encodes
initialization data for the renderer (sample files, synthesis patch
parameters, reverberation room impulse responses, etc.).
For "render=api" renderers, the data object usually encodes data
about the stream used by the API (for example, for an RTP MIDI stream
generated by a piano keyboard controller, the manufacturer and model
number of the keyboard, for use in GUI presentation).
Usually, only one initialization object is encoded for a renderer.
If a renderer uses multiple data objects, the correct receiver
interpretation of multiple data objects MUST be defined in the
subrender registration.
A subrender value registration may also specify additional
parameters, to appear in the parameter list immediately after
subrender. These parameter names MUST begin with the subrender value
followed by an underscore ("_") to avoid name space collisions with
future RTP MIDI parameter names (for example, a parameter "foo_bar"
defined for subrender value "foo").
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We now specify guidelines for interpreting the subrender parameter
during session configuration.
If a party is offered a session description that uses a renderer
whose subrender value is not known to the party, the party MUST NOT
accept the renderer. Options include rejecting the renderer (using
the "null" value), the payload type, the media stream, or the session
description.
Receivers MUST be aware of the Reset State commands (Appendix A.1)
for the renderer specified by the subrender parameter and MUST insure
that the renderer does not experience indefinite artifacts due to the
presence (or the loss) of a Reset State command.
C.6.3. Renderer Initialization
If the renderer for a stream uses an initialization data object, an
rinit parameter MUST appear in the parameter list immediately after
the subrender parameter. If the renderer parameter list does not
include a subrender parameter (recall the semantics for "default" in
Appendix C.6.2), the rinit parameter MUST appear immediately after
the render parameter.
The value assigned to the rinit parameter MUST be the media
type/subtype [RFC2045] for the initialization data object. If an
initialization object type is registered with several media types,
including audio, the assignment to rinit MUST use the audio media
type.
RTP MIDI supports several parameters for encoding initialization data
objects for renderers in the parameter list: inline, url, and cid.
If the inline, url, and/or cid parameters are used by a renderer,
these parameters MUST immediately follow the rinit parameter.
If a url parameter appears for a renderer, an inline parameter MUST
NOT appear. If an inline parameter appears for a renderer, a url
parameter MUST NOT appear. However, neither url nor inline is
required to appear. If neither url or inline parameters follow
rinit, the cid parameter MUST follow rinit.
The inline parameter supports the inline encoding of the data object.
The parameter is assigned a double-quoted Base64 [RFC2045] encoding
of the binary data object, with no line breaks. Appendix E.4 shows
an example that constructs an inline parameter value.
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The url parameter is assigned a double-quoted string representation
of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the data object. The string
MUST specify either a HyperText Transport Protocol URI (HTTP,
[RFC2616]) or an HTTP over TLS URI (HTTPS, [RFC2818]). The media
type/subtype for the data object SHOULD be specified in the
appropriate HTTP or HTTPS transport header.
The cid parameter supports data object caching. The parameter is
assigned a double-quoted string value that encodes a globally unique
identifier for the data object.
A cid parameter MAY immediately follow an inline parameter, in which
case the cid identifier value MUST be associated with the inline data
object.
If a url parameter is present, and if the data object for the URL is
expected to be unchanged for the life of the URL, a cid parameter MAY
immediately follow the url parameter. The cid identifier value MUST
be associated with the data object for the URL. A cid parameter
assigned to the same identifier value SHOULD be specified following
the data object type/subtype in the appropriate HTTP transport
header.
If a url parameter is present, and if the data object for the URL is
expected to change during the life of the URL, a cid parameter MUST
NOT follow the url parameter. A receiver interprets the presence of
a cid parameter as an indication that it is safe to use a cached copy
of the url data object; the absence of a cid parameter is an
indication that it is not safe to use a cached copy, as it may
change.
Finally, the cid parameter MAY be used without the inline and url
parameters. In this case, the identifier references a local or
distributed catalog of data objects.
In most cases, only one data object is coded in the parameter list
for each renderer. For example, the default renderer for
mpeg4-generic streams uses a single data object (see Appendix C.6.5
for example usage).
However, a subrender registration MAY permit the use of multiple data
objects for a renderer. If multiple data objects are encoded for a
renderer, each object encoding begins with an rinit parameter
followed by inline, url, and/or cid parameters.
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Initialization data objects MAY encapsulate a Standard MIDI File
(SMF). By default, the SMFs that are encapsulated in a data object
MUST be ignored by an RTP MIDI receiver. We define parameters to
override this default in Appendix C.6.4.
To end this section, we offer guidelines for registering media types
for initialization data objects. These guidelines are in addition to
the information in [RFC4288].
Some initialization data objects are also capable of encoding MIDI
note information and thus complete audio performances. These objects
SHOULD be registered using the audio media type (so that the objects
may also be used for store-and-forward rendering) and the
"application" media type (to support editing tools). Initialization
objects without note storage, or initialization objects for non-audio
renderers, SHOULD be registered only for an "application" media type.
C.6.4. MIDI Channel Mapping
In this appendix, we specify how to map MIDI name spaces (16 voice
channels + systems) onto a renderer.
In the general case:
o A session may define an ordered relationship (Appendix C.5) that
presents more than one MIDI name space to a renderer.
o A renderer may accept an arbitrary number of MIDI name spaces, or
it may expect a specific number of MIDI name spaces.
A session description SHOULD provide a compatible MIDI name space to
each renderer in the session. If a receiver detects that a session
description has too many or too few MIDI name spaces for a renderer,
MIDI data from extra stream name spaces MUST be discarded, and extra
renderer name spaces MUST NOT be driven with MIDI data (except as
described in Appendix C.6.4.1).
If a parameter list defines several renderers and assigns the "all"
token value to the multimode parameter, the same name space is
presented to each renderer. However, the chanmask parameter may be
used to mask out selected voice channels to each renderer. We define
chanmask and other MIDI management parameters in the subsections
below.
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C.6.4.1. The smf_info Parameter
The smf_info parameter defines the use of the SMFs encapsulated in
renderer data objects (if any). The smf_info parameter also defines
the use of SMFs coded in the smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid
parameters (defined in Appendix C.6.4.2).
The smf_info parameter describes the render parameter that most
recently precedes it in the parameter list. The smf_info parameter
MUST NOT appear in parameter lists that do not use the render
parameter and MUST NOT appear before the first use of render in the
parameter list.
We define three token values for smf_info: "ignore", "sdp_start", and
"identity":
o The "ignore" value indicates that the SMFs MUST be discarded.
This behavior is the default SMF-rendering behavior.
o The "sdp_start" value codes that SMFs MUST be rendered and that
the rendering MUST begin upon the acceptance of the session
description. If a receiver is offered a session description with
a renderer that uses an smf_info parameter set to "sdp_start" and
if the receiver does not support rendering SMFs, the receiver MUST
NOT accept the renderer associated with the smf_info parameter.
Options include rejecting the renderer (by setting the render
parameter to "null"), the payload type, the media stream, or the
entire session description.
o The "identity" value indicates that the SMFs code the identity of
the renderer. The value is meant for use with the "unknown"
renderer (see Appendix C.6 preamble). The MIDI commands coded in
the SMF are informational in nature and MUST NOT be presented to a
renderer for audio presentation. In typical use, the SMF would
use SysEx Identity Reply commands (F0 7E nn 06 02, as defined in
[MIDI]) to identify devices and use device-specific SysEx commands
to describe the current state of the devices (patch memory
contents, etc.).
Other smf_info token values MAY be registered with IANA. The token
value MUST adhere to the ABNF for render tokens defined in Appendix
D. Registrations MUST include a complete specification of parameter
usage, similar in depth to the specifications that appear in this
appendix for "sdp_start" and "identity".
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If a party is offered a session description that uses an smf_info
parameter value that is not known to the party, the party MUST NOT
accept the renderer associated with the smf_info parameter. Options
include rejecting the renderer, the payload type, the media stream,
or the entire session description.
We now define the rendering semantics for the "sdp_start" token value
in detail.
The SMFs and RTP MIDI streams in a session description share the same
MIDI name space(s). In the simple case of a single RTP MIDI stream
and a single SMF, the SMF MIDI commands and RTP MIDI commands are
merged into a single name space and presented to the renderer. The
indefinite artifact responsibilities for merged MIDI streams defined
in Appendix C.5 also apply to merging RTP and SMF MIDI data.
If a payload type codes multiple SMFs, the SMF name spaces are
presented as an ordered entity to the renderer. To determine the
ordering of SMFs for a renderer (which SMF is "first", which is
"second", etc.), use the following rules:
o If the renderer uses a single data object, the order of appearance
of the SMFs in the object's internal structure defines the order
of the SMFs (the earliest SMF in the object is "first", the next
SMF in the object is "second", etc.).
o If multiple data objects are encoded for a renderer, the
appearance of each data object in the parameter list sets the
relative order of the SMFs encoded in each data object (SMFs
encoded in parameters that appear earlier in the list are ordered
before SMFs encoded in parameters that appear later in the list).
o If SMFs are encoded in data objects parameters and in the
parameters defined in Appendix C.6.4.2, the relative order of the
data object parameters and Appendix C.6.4.2 parameters in the
parameter list sets the relative order of SMFs (SMFs encoded in
parameters that appear earlier in the list are ordered before SMFs
in parameters that appear later in the list).
Given this ordering of SMFs, we now define the mapping of SMFs to
renderer name spaces. The SMF that appears first for a renderer maps
to the first renderer name space. The SMF that appears second for a
renderer maps to the second renderer name space, etc. If the
associated RTP MIDI streams also form an ordered relationship, the
first SMF is merged with the first name space of the relationship,
the second SMF is merged to the second name space of the
relationship, etc.
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Unless the streams and the SMFs both use MIDI Time Code, the time
offset between SMF and stream data is unspecified. This restriction
limits the use of SMFs to applications where synchronization is not
critical, such as the transport of System Exclusive commands for
renderer initialization or human-SMF interactivity.
Finally, we note that each SMF in the sdp_start discussion above
encodes exactly one MIDI name space (16 voice channels + systems).
Thus, the use of the Device Name SMF meta event to specify several
MIDI name spaces in an SMF is not supported for sdp_start.
C.6.4.2. The smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid Parameters
In some applications, the renderer data object may not encapsulate
SMFs, but an application may wish to use SMFs in the manner defined
in Appendix C.6.4.1.
The smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid parameters address this
situation. These parameters use the syntax and semantics of the
inline, url, and cid parameters defined in Appendix C.6.3, except
that the encoded data object is an SMF.
The smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid parameters belong to the render
parameter that most recently precedes it in the session description.
The smf_inline, smf_url, and smf_cid parameters MUST NOT appear in
parameter lists that do not use the render parameter and MUST NOT
appear before the first use of render in the parameter list. If
several smf_inline, smf_url, or smf_cid parameters appear for a
renderer, the order of the parameters defines the SMF name space
ordering.
C.6.4.3. The chanmask Parameter
The chanmask parameter instructs the renderer to ignore all MIDI
voice commands for certain channel numbers. The parameter value is a
concatenated string of "1" and "0" digits. Each string position maps
to a MIDI voice channel number (system channels may not be masked).
A "1" instructs the renderer to process the voice channel; a "0"
instructs the renderer to ignore the voice channel.
The string length of the chanmask parameter value MUST be 16 (for a
single stream or an identity relationship) or a multiple of 16 (for
an ordered relationship).
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The chanmask parameter describes the render parameter that most
recently precedes it in the session description; chanmask MUST NOT
appear in parameter lists that do not use the render parameter and
MUST NOT appear before the first use of render in the parameter list.
The chanmask parameter describes the final MIDI name spaces presented
to the renderer. The SMF and stream components of the MIDI name
spaces may not be independently masked.
If a receiver is offered a session description with a renderer that
uses the chanmask parameter, and if the receiver does not implement
the semantics of the chanmask parameter, the receiver MUST NOT accept
the renderer unless the chanmask parameter value contains only "1"s.
C.6.5. The audio/asc Media Type
In Appendix 11.3, we register the audio/asc media type. The data
object for audio/asc is a binary encoding of the AudioSpecificConfig
data block used to initialize mpeg4-generic streams (Section 6.2 and
[MPEGAUDIO]). Disk files that store this data object use the file
extension ".acn".
An mpeg4-generic parameter list MAY use the render, subrender, and
rinit parameters with the audio/asc media type for renderer
configuration. Several restrictions apply to the use of these
parameters in mpeg4-generic parameter lists:
o An mpeg4-generic media description that uses the render parameter
MUST assign the empty string ("") to the mpeg4-generic "config"
parameter. The use of the streamtype, mode, and profile-level-id
parameters MUST follow the normative text in Section 6.2.
o Sessions that use identity or ordered relationships MUST follow
the mpeg4-generic configuration restrictions in Appendix C.5.
o The render parameter MUST be assigned the value "synthetic",
"unknown", "null", or a render value that has been added to the
IANA repository for use with mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams. The
"api" token value for render MUST NOT be used.
o If a subrender parameter is present, it MUST immediately follow
the render parameter, and it MUST be assigned the token value
"default" or assigned a subrender value added to the IANA
repository for use with mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams. A
subrender parameter assignment may be left out of the renderer
configuration, in which case the implied value of subrender is the
default value of "default".
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o If the render parameter is assigned the value "synthetic" and the
subrender parameter has the value "default" (assigned or implied),
the rinit parameter MUST be assigned the value audio/asc, and an
AudioSpecificConfig data object MUST be encoded using the
mechanisms defined in Appendices C.6.2 and C.6.3. The
AudioSpecificConfig data MUST encode one of the MPEG 4 Audio
Object Types defined for use with mpeg4-generic in Section 6.2.
If the subrender value is other than "default", refer to the
subrender registration for information on the use of audio/asc
with the renderer.
o If the render parameter is assigned the value "null" or "unknown",
the data object MAY be omitted.
Several general restrictions apply to the use of the audio/asc media
type in RTP MIDI:
o A native stream MUST NOT assign audio/asc to rinit. The audio/asc
media type is not intended to be a general-purpose container for
rendering systems outside of MPEG usage.
o The audio/asc media type defines a stored object type; it does not
define semantics for RTP streams. Thus, audio/asc MUST NOT appear
on an rtpmap line of a session description.
Below, we show session description examples for audio/asc. The
session description below uses the inline parameter to code the
AudioSpecificConfig block for a mpeg4-generic General MIDI stream.
We derive the value assigned to the inline parameter in Appendix E.4.
The subrender token value of "default" is implied by the absence of
the subrender parameter in the parameter list.
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
inline="egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA"
(The a=fmtp line has been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate memo
formatting restrictions; it comprises a single line in SDP.)
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The session description below uses the url parameter to code the
AudioSpecificConfig block for the same General MIDI stream:
v=0
o=lazzaro 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
url="http://example.net/oski.asc";
cid="xjflsoeiurvpa09itnvlduihgnvet98pa3w9utnuighbuk"
(The a=fmtp line has been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate memo
formatting restrictions; it comprises a single line in SDP.)
C.7. Interoperability
In this appendix, we define interoperability guidelines for two
application areas:
o MIDI content-streaming applications. RTP MIDI is added to RTSP-
based content-streaming servers so that viewers may experience
MIDI performances (produced by a specified client-side renderer)
in synchronization with other streams (video, audio).
o Long-distance network musical performance applications. RTP MIDI
is added to SIP-based voice chat or videoconferencing programs, as
an alternative, or as an addition, to audio and/or video RTP
streams.
For each application, we define a core set of functionalities that
all implementations MUST implement.
The applications we address in this section are not an exhaustive
list of potential RTP MIDI uses. We expect framework documents for
other applications to be developed, within the IETF or within other
organizations. We discuss other potential application areas for RTP
MIDI in Section 1 of the main text of this memo.
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C.7.1. MIDI Content-Streaming Applications
In content-streaming applications, a user invokes an RTSP client to
initiate a request to an RTSP server to view a multimedia session.
For example, clicking on a web page link for an Internet Radio
channel launches an RTSP client that uses the link's RTSP URL to
contact the RTSP server hosting the radio channel.
The content may be pre-recorded (for example, on-demand replay of
yesterday's football game) or "live" (for example, football game
coverage as it occurs), but in either case, the user is usually an
"audience member" as opposed to a "participant" (as the user would be
in telephony).
Note that these examples describe the distribution of audio content
to an audience member. The interoperability guidelines in this
appendix address RTP MIDI applications of this nature, not
applications such as the transmission of raw MIDI command streams for
use in a professional environment (recording studio, performance
stage, etc.).
In an RTSP session, a client accesses a session description that is
"declared" by the server, either via the RTSP DESCRIBE method or via
other means such as HTTP or email. The session description defines
the session from the perspective of the client. For example, if a
media line in the session description contains a non-zero port
number, it encodes the server's preference for the client's port
numbers for RTP and RTCP reception. Once media flow begins, the
server sends an RTP MIDI stream to the client, which renders it for
presentation, perhaps in synchrony with video or other audio streams.
We now define the interoperability text for content-streaming RTSP
applications.
In most cases, server interoperability responsibilities are described
in terms of limits on the "reference" session description a server
provides for a performance if it has no information about the
capabilities of the client. The reference session is a "lowest
common denominator" session that maximizes the odds that a client
will be able to view the session. If a server is aware of the
capabilities of the client, the server is free to provide a session
description customized for the client in the DESCRIBE reply.
Clients MUST support unicast UDP RTP MIDI streams that use the
recovery journal with the closed-loop or the anchor sending policies.
Clients MUST be able to interpret stream subsetting and chapter
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inclusion parameters in the session description that qualify the
sending policies. Client support of enhanced Chapter C encoding is
OPTIONAL.
The reference session description offered by a server MUST send all
RTP MIDI UDP streams as unicast streams that use the recovery journal
and the closed-loop or anchor sending policies. Servers SHOULD use
the stream subsetting and chapter inclusion parameters in the
reference session description to simplify the rendering task of the
client. Server support of enhanced Chapter C encoding is OPTIONAL.
Clients and servers MUST support the use of RTSP interleaved mode (a
method for interleaving RTP onto the RTSP TCP transport).
Clients MUST be able to interpret the timestamp semantics signalled
by the "comex" value of the tsmode parameter (i.e., the timestamp
semantics of Standard MIDI Files [MIDI]). Servers MUST use the
"comex" value for the tsmode parameter in the reference session
description.
Clients MUST be able to process an RTP MIDI stream whose packets
encode an arbitrary temporal duration ("media time"). Thus, in
practice, clients MUST implement a MIDI playout buffer. Clients MUST
NOT depend on the presence of rtp_ptime, rtp_maxtime, and guardtime
parameters in the session description in order to process packets,
but they SHOULD be able to use these parameters to improve packet
processing.
Servers SHOULD strive to send RTP MIDI streams in the same way media
servers send conventional audio streams: a sequence of packets that
all code either the same temporal duration (non-normative example: 50
ms packets) or one of an integral number of temporal durations (non-
normative example: 50 ms, 100 ms, 250 ms, or 500 ms packets).
Servers SHOULD encode information about the packetization method in
the rtp_ptime and rtp_maxtime parameters in the session description.
Clients MUST be able to examine the render and subrender parameter to
determine if a multimedia session uses a renderer it supports.
Clients MUST be able to interpret the default "one" value of the
multimode parameter to identify supported renderers from a list of
renderer descriptions. Clients MUST be able to interpret the
musicport parameter to the degree that it is relevant to the
renderers it supports. Clients MUST be able to interpret the
chanmask parameter.
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Clients supporting renderers whose data object (as encoded by a
parameter value for inline) could exceed 300 octets in size MUST
support the url and cid parameters and thus must implement the HTTP
protocol in addition to RTSP. HTTP over TLS [RFC2818] support for
data objects is OPTIONAL.
Servers MUST specify complete rendering systems for RTP MIDI streams.
Note that a minimal RTP MIDI native stream does not meet this
requirement (Section 6.1), as the rendering method for such streams
is "not specified".
At the time of writing this memo, the only way for servers to specify
a complete rendering system is to specify an mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI
stream in mode rtp-midi (Section 6.2 and Appendix C.6.5). As a
consequence, the only rendering systems that may be presently used
are General MIDI [MIDI], DLS 2 [DLS2], or Structured Audio [MPEGSA].
Note that the maximum inline value for General MIDI is well under 300
octets (and thus clients need not support the url parameter) and that
the maximum inline values for DLS 2 and Structured Audio may be much
larger than 300 octets (and thus clients MUST support the url
parameter).
We anticipate that the owners of rendering systems (both standardized
and proprietary) will register subrender parameters for their
renderers. Once registration occurs, native RTP MIDI sessions may
use render and subrender (Appendix C.6.2) to specify complete
rendering systems for RTSP content-streaming multimedia sessions.
Servers MUST NOT use the sdp_start value for the smf_info parameter
in the reference session description, as this use would require that
clients be able to parse and render Standard MIDI Files.
Clients MUST support mpeg4-generic mode rtp-midi General MIDI (GM)
sessions, at a polyphony limited by the hardware capabilities of the
client. This requirement provides a "lowest common denominator"
rendering system for content providers to target. Note that this
requirement does not force implementors of a non-GM renderer (such as
DLS 2 or Structured Audio) to add a second rendering engine.
Instead, a client may satisfy the requirement by including a set of
voice patches that implement the GM instrument set and using this
emulation for mpeg4-generic GM sessions.
It is RECOMMENDED that servers use General MIDI as the renderer for
the reference session description because clients are REQUIRED to
support it. We do not require General MIDI as the reference renderer
because it is an inappropriate choice for normative applications.
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Servers using General MIDI as a "lowest common denominator" renderer
SHOULD use Universal Real-Time SysEx Maximum Instantaneous Polyphony
(MIP) messages [SPMIDI] to communicate the priority of voices to
polyphony-limited clients.
C.7.2. MIDI Network Musical Performance Applications
In Internet telephony and videoconferencing applications, parties
interact over an IP network as they would face-to-face. Good user
experiences require low end-to-end audio latency and tight
audiovisual synchronization (for "lip-sync"). The Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP, [RFC3261]) is used for session management.
In this appendix section, we define interoperability guidelines for
using RTP MIDI streams in interactive SIP applications. Our primary
interest is supporting Network Musical Performances (NMPs), where
musicians in different locations interact over the network as if they
were in the same room. See [NMP] for background information on NMP,
and see [RFC4696] for a discussion of low-latency RTP MIDI
implementation techniques for NMP.
Note that the goal of NMP applications is telepresence: the parties
should hear audio that is close to what they would hear if they were
in the same room. The interoperability guidelines in this appendix
address RTP MIDI applications of this nature, not applications such
as the transmission of raw MIDI command streams for use in a
professional environment (recording studio, performance stage, etc.).
We focus on session management for two-party unicast sessions that
specify a renderer for RTP MIDI streams. Within this limited scope,
the guidelines defined here are sufficient to let applications
interoperate. We define the REQUIRED capabilities of RTP MIDI
senders and receivers in NMP sessions and define how session
descriptions exchanged are used to set up network musical performance
sessions.
SIP lets parties negotiate details of the session using the
Offer/Answer protocol [RFC3264]. However, RTP MIDI has so many
parameters that "blind" negotiations between two parties might not
yield a common session configuration.
Thus, we now define a set of capabilities that NMP parties MUST
support. Session description offers whose options lie outside the
envelope of REQUIRED party behavior risk negotiation failure. We
also define session description idioms that the RTP MIDI part of an
offer MUST follow in order to structure the offer for simpler
analysis.
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We use the term "offerer" for the party making a SIP offer and
"answerer" for the party answering the offer. Finally, we note that
unless it is qualified by the adjective "sender" or "receiver", a
statement that a party MUST support X implies that it MUST support X
for both sending and receiving.
If an offerer wishes to define a "sendrecv" RTP MIDI stream, it may
use a true sendrecv session or the "virtual sendrecv" construction
described in the preamble to Appendix C and in Appendix C.5. A true
sendrecv session indicates that the offerer wishes to participate in
a session where both parties use identically configured renderers. A
virtual sendrecv session indicates that the offerer is willing to
participate in a session where the two parties may be using different
renderer configurations. Thus, parties MUST be prepared to see both
real and virtual sendrecv sessions in an offer.
Parties MUST support unicast UDP transport of RTP MIDI streams.
These streams MUST use the recovery journal with the closed-loop or
anchor sending policies. These streams MUST use the stream
subsetting and chapter inclusion parameters to declare the types of
MIDI commands that will be sent on the stream (for sendonly streams)
or will be processed (for recvonly streams), including the size
limits on System Exclusive commands. Support of enhanced Chapter C
encoding is OPTIONAL.
Note that both TCP and multicast UDP support are OPTIONAL. We make
TCP OPTIONAL because we expect NMP renderers to rely on data objects
(signalled by rinit and associated parameters) for initialization at
the start of the session and only to use System Exclusive commands
for interactive control during the session. These interactive
commands are small enough to be protected via the recovery journal
mechanism of RTP MIDI UDP streams.
We now discuss timestamps, packet timing, and packet-sending
algorithms.
Recall that the tsmode parameter controls the semantics of command
timestamps in the MIDI list of RTP packets.
Parties MUST support clock rates of 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, and
96 kHz. Parties MUST support streams using the "comex", "async", and
"buffer" tsmode values. Recvonly offers MUST offer the default
"comex".
Parties MUST support a wide range of packet temporal durations: from
rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime values of 0, to rtp_ptime and rtp_maxptime
values that code 100 ms. Thus, receivers MUST be able to implement a
playout buffer.
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Offers and answers MUST present rtp_ptime, rtp_maxptime, and
guardtime values that support the latency that users would expect in
the application, subject to bandwidth constraints. As senders MUST
abide by values set for these parameters in a session description, a
receiver SHOULD use these values to size its playout buffer to
produce the lowest reliable latency for a session. Implementors
should refer to [RFC4696] for information on packet-sending
algorithms for latency-sensitive applications. Parties MUST be able
to implement the semantics of the guardtime parameter for times from
5 ms to 5000 ms.
We now discuss the use of the render parameter.
Sessions MUST specify complete rendering systems for all RTP MIDI
streams. Note that a minimal RTP MIDI native stream does not meet
this requirement (Section 6.1), as the rendering method for such
streams is "not specified".
At the time of this writing, the only way for parties to specify a
complete rendering system is to specify an mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI
stream in mode rtp-midi (Section 6.2 and Appendix C.6.5). We
anticipate that the owners of rendering systems (both standardized
and proprietary) will register subrender values for their renderers.
Once IANA registration occurs, native RTP MIDI sessions may use
render and subrender (Appendix C.6.2) to specify complete rendering
systems for SIP network musical performance multimedia sessions.
All parties MUST support General MIDI (GM) sessions at a polyphony
limited by the hardware capabilities of the party. This requirement
provides a "lowest common denominator" rendering system, without
which practical interoperability will be quite difficult. When using
GM, parties SHOULD use Universal Real-Time SysEx MIP messages
[SPMIDI] to communicate the priority of voices to polyphony-limited
clients.
Note that this requirement does not force implementors of a non-GM
renderer (for mpeg4-generic sessions, DLS 2, or Structured Audio) to
add a second rendering engine. Instead, a client may satisfy the
requirement by including a set of voice patches that implement the GM
instrument set and using this emulation for mpeg4-generic GM
sessions. We require GM support so that an offerer that wishes to
maximize interoperability may do so by offering GM if its preferred
renderer is not accepted by the answerer.
Offerers MUST NOT present several renderers as options in a session
description by listing several payload types on a media line, as
Section 2.1 uses this construct to let a party send several RTP MIDI
streams in the same RTP session.
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Instead, an offerer wishing to present rendering options SHOULD offer
a single payload type that offers several renderers. In this
construct, the parameter list codes a list of render parameters (each
followed by its support parameters). As discussed in Appendix C.6.1,
the order of renderers in the list declares the offerer's preference.
The "unknown" and "null" values MUST NOT appear in the offer. The
answer MUST set all render values except the desired renderer to
"null". Thus, "unknown" MUST NOT appear in the answer.
We use SHOULD instead of MUST in the first sentence in the paragraph
above because this technique does not work in all situations (for
example, if an offerer wishes to offer both mpeg4-generic renderers
and native RTP MIDI renderers as options). In this case, the offerer
MUST present a series of session descriptions, each offering a single
renderer, until the answerer accepts a session description.
Parties MUST support the musicport, chanmask, subrender, rinit, and
inline parameters. Parties supporting renderers whose data object
(as encoded by a parameter value for inline) could exceed 300 octets
in size MUST support the url and cid parameters and thus must
implement the HTTP protocol. HTTP over TLS [RFC2818] support for
data objects is OPTIONAL. Note that in mpeg4-generic, General MIDI
data objects cannot exceed 300 octets, but DLS 2 and Structured Audio
data objects may. Support for the other rendering parameters
(smf_cif, smf_info, smf_inline, smf_url) is OPTIONAL.
Thus far in this document, our discussion has assumed that the only
MIDI flows that drive a renderer are the network flows described in
the session description. In NMP applications, this assumption would
require two rendering engines: one for local use by a party and a
second for the remote party.
In practice, applications may wish to have both parties share a
single rendering engine. In this case, the session description MUST
use a virtual sendrecv session and MUST use the stream subsetting and
chapter inclusion parameters to allocate which MIDI channels are
intended for use by a party. If two parties are sharing a MIDI
channel, the application MUST ensure that appropriate MIDI merging
occurs at the input to the renderer.
We now discuss the use of (non-MIDI) audio streams in the session.
Audio streams may be used for two purposes: as a "talkback" channel
for parties to converse or as a way to conduct a performance that
includes MIDI and audio channels. In the latter case, offers MUST
use sample rates and the packet temporal durations for the audio and
MIDI streams that support low-latency synchronized rendering.
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We now show an example of an offer/answer exchange in a network
musical performance application.
Below, we show an offer that complies with the interoperability text
in this appendix section.
v=0
o=first 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 first.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
a=group:FID 1 2
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.94
m=audio 16112 RTP/AVP 96
a=recvonly
a=mid:1
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; cm_unused=ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ; cm_used=2NPTW;
cm_used=2C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123; cm_used=2M0.1.2;
cm_used=X0-16; ch_never=ABCDEFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ;
ch_default=2NPTW; ch_default=2C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123;
ch_default=2M0.1.2; cm_default=X0-16;
rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=0; guardtime=44100;
musicport=1; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
inline="egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA"
m=audio 16114 RTP/AVP 96
a=sendonly
a=mid:2
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; cm_unused=ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ; cm_used=1NPTW;
cm_used=1C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123; cm_used=1M0.1.2;
cm_used=X0-16; ch_never=ABCDEFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ;
ch_default=1NPTW; ch_default=1C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123;
ch_default=1M0.1.2; cm_default=X0-16;
rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=0; guardtime=44100;
musicport=1; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
inline="egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA"
(The a=fmtp lines have been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate
memo formatting restrictions; it comprises a single line in SDP.)
The owner line (o=) identifies the session owner as "first".
The session description defines two MIDI streams: a recvonly stream
on which "first" receives a performance and a sendonly stream that
"first" uses to send a performance. The recvonly port number encodes
the ports on which "first" wishes to receive RTP (16112) and RTCP
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(16113) media at IP4 address 192.0.2.94. The sendonly port number
encodes the port on which "first" wishes to receive RTCP for the
stream (16115).
The musicport parameters code that the two streams share an identity
relationship and thus form a virtual sendrecv stream.
Both streams are mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams that specify a
General MIDI renderer. The stream subsetting parameters code that
the recvonly stream uses MIDI channel 1 exclusively for voice
commands and that the sendonly stream uses MIDI channel 2 exclusively
for voice commands. This mapping permits the application software to
share a single renderer for local and remote performers.
We now show the answer to the offer.
v=0
o=second 2520644554 2838152170 IN IP4 second.example.net
s=Example
t=0 0
a=group:FID 1 2
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.105
m=audio 5004 RTP/AVP 96
a=sendonly
a=mid:1
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; cm_unused=ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ; cm_used=2NPTW;
cm_used=2C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123; cm_used=2M0.1.2;
cm_used=X0-16; ch_never=ABCDEFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ;
ch_default=2NPTW; ch_default=2C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123;
ch_default=2M0.1.2; cm_default=X0-16;
rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=882; guardtime=44100;
musicport=1; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
inline="egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA"
m=audio 5006 RTP/AVP 96
a=recvonly
a=mid:2
a=rtpmap:96 mpeg4-generic/44100
a=fmtp:96 streamtype=5; mode=rtp-midi; config="";
profile-level-id=12; cm_unused=ABCFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ; cm_used=1NPTW;
cm_used=1C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123; cm_used=1M0.1.2;
cm_used=X0-16; ch_never=ABCDEFGHJKMNPQTVWXYZ;
ch_default=1NPTW; ch_default=1C0.1.7.10.11.64.121.123;
ch_default=1M0.1.2; cm_default=X0-16;
rtp_ptime=0; rtp_maxptime=0; guardtime=88200;
musicport=1; render=synthetic; rinit=audio/asc;
inline="egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA"
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(The a=fmtp lines have been wrapped to fit the page to accommodate
memo formatting restrictions; they comprise single lines in SDP.)
The owner line (o=) identifies the session owner as "second".
The port numbers for both media streams are non-zero; thus, "second"
has accepted the session description. The stream marked "sendonly"
in the offer is marked "recvonly" in the answer and vice versa,
coding the different view of the session held by "session". The IP4
number (192.0.2.105), RTP (5004 and 5006), and RTCP (5005 and 5007)
have been changed by "second" to match its transport wishes.
In addition, "second" has made several parameter changes:
rtp_maxptime for the sendonly stream has been changed to code 2 ms
(441 in clock units), and the guardtime for the recvonly stream has
been doubled. As these parameter modifications request capabilities
that are REQUIRED to be implemented by interoperable parties,
"second" can make these changes with confidence that "first" can
abide by them.
Appendix D. Parameter Syntax Definitions
In this appendix, we define the syntax for the RTP MIDI media type
parameters in Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF, [RFC5234]). When
using these parameters with SDP, all parameters MUST appear on a
single fmtp attribute line of an RTP MIDI media description. For
mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams, this line MUST also include any
mpeg4-generic parameters (usage described in Section 6.2). An fmtp
attribute line may be defined (after [RFC3640]) as:
;
; SDP fmtp line definition
;
fmtp = "a=fmtp:" token SP param-assign 0*(";" SP param-assign) CRLF
where <token> codes the RTP payload type. Note that white space MUST
NOT appear between the "a=fmtp:" and the RTP payload type.
We now define the syntax of the parameters defined in Appendix C.
The definition takes the form of the incremental assembly of the
<param-assign> token. See [RFC3640] for the syntax of the
mpeg4-generic parameters discussed in Section 6.2.
;
;
; top-level definition for all parameters
;
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;
;
; Parameters defined in Appendix C.1
param-assign = ("cm_unused=" (([channel-list] command-type
[f-list]) / sysex-data))
param-assign =/ ("cm_used=" (([channel-list] command-type
[f-list]) / sysex-data))
;
; Parameters defined in Appendix C.2
param-assign =/ ("j_sec=" ("none" / "recj" / ietf-extension))
param-assign =/ ("j_update=" ("anchor" / "closed-loop" /
"open-loop" / ietf-extension))
param-assign =/ ("ch_default=" (([channel-list] chapter-list
[f-list]) / sysex-data))
param-assign =/ ("ch_never=" (([channel-list] chapter-list
[f-list]) / sysex-data))
param-assign =/ ("ch_anchor=" (([channel-list] chapter-list
[f-list]) / sysex-data))
;
; Parameters defined in Appendix C.3
param-assign =/ ("tsmode=" ("comex" / "async" / "buffer"))
param-assign =/ ("linerate=" nonzero-four-octet)
param-assign =/ ("octpos=" ("first" / "last"))
param-assign =/ ("mperiod=" nonzero-four-octet)
;
; Parameter defined in Appendix C.4
param-assign =/ ("guardtime=" nonzero-four-octet)
param-assign =/ ("rtp_ptime=" four-octet)
param-assign =/ ("rtp_maxptime=" four-octet)
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;
; Parameters defined in Appendix C.5
param-assign =/ ("musicport=" four-octet)
;
; Parameters defined in Appendix C.6
param-assign =/ ("chanmask=" 1*( 16(BIT) ))
param-assign =/ ("cid=" DQUOTE cid-block DQUOTE)
param-assign =/ ("inline=" DQUOTE base-64-block DQUOTE)
param-assign =/ ("multimode=" ("all" / "one"))
param-assign =/ ("render=" ("synthetic" / "api" / "null" /
"unknown" / extension))
param-assign =/ ("rinit=" mime-type "/" mime-subtype)
param-assign =/ ("smf_cid=" DQUOTE cid-block DQUOTE)
param-assign =/ ("smf_info=" ("ignore" / "identity" /
"sdp_start" / extension))
param-assign =/ ("smf_inline=" DQUOTE base-64-block DQUOTE)
param-assign =/ ("smf_url=" DQUOTE uri-element DQUOTE)
param-assign =/ ("subrender=" ("default" / extension))
param-assign =/ ("url=" DQUOTE uri-element DQUOTE)
;
; list definitions for the cm_ command-type
;
command-type = [A] [B] [C] [F] [G] [H] [J] [K] [M]
[N] [P] [Q] [T] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
;
; list definitions for the ch_ chapter-list
;
chapter-list = [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [J] [K]
[M] [N] [P] [Q] [T] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]
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;
; list definitions for the channel-list (used in ch_* / cm_* params)
;
channel-list = midi-chan-element *("." midi-chan-element)
midi-chan-element = midi-chan / midi-chan-range
midi-chan-range = midi-chan "-" midi-chan
;
; Decimal value of left midi-chan
; MUST be strictly less than
; decimal value of right midi-chan.
midi-chan = DIGIT / ("1" %x30-35) ; "0" .. "15"
;
; list definitions for the ch_ field list (f-list)
;
f-list = midi-field-element *("." midi-field-element)
midi-field-element = midi-field / midi-field-range
midi-field-range = midi-field "-" midi-field
;
; Decimal value of left midi-field
; MUST be strictly less than
; decimal value of right midi-field.
midi-field = four-octet
;
; Large range accommodates Chapter M
; RPN (0-16383), NRPN (16384-32767)
; parameters, and Chapter X octet sizes.
;
; definitions for ch_ sysex-data
;
sysex-data = "__" h-list *("_" h-list) "__"
h-list = hex-field-element *("." hex-field-element)
hex-field-element = hex-octet / hex-field-range
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hex-field-range = hex-octet "-" hex-octet
;
; Hexadecimal value of left hex-octet
; MUST be strictly less than hexadecimal
; value of right hex-octet.
hex-octet = %x30-37 U-HEXDIG
;
; Rewritten special case of hex-octet in
; [RFC2045] (page 23).
; Note that a-f are not permitted, only A-F.
; hex-octet values MUST NOT exceed 0x7F.
;
; definitions for rinit parameter
;
mime-type = "audio" / "application"
mime-subtype = subtype-name
;
; See Appendix C.6.2 for registration
; requirements for rinit type/subtypes.
;
; subtype-name is defined in [RFC4288],
; Section 4.2.
;
; Definitions for base64 encoding
; copied from [RFC4566]
; changes from [RFC4566] to improve automatic syntax checking.
;
base-64-block = *base64-unit [base64-pad]
base64-unit = 4(base64-char)
base64-pad = (2(base64-char) "==") / (3(base64-char) "=")
base64-char = %x41-5A / %x61-7A / %x30-39 / "+" / "/"
; A-Z, a-z, 0-9, "+" and "/"
;
; generic rules
;
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ietf-extension = token
;
; may only be defined in Standards-Track RFCs
extension = token
;
; may be defined
; by filing a registration with IANA
nonzero-four-octet = (NZ-DIGIT 0*8(DIGIT))
/ (%x31-33 9(DIGIT))
/ ("4" %x30-31 8(DIGIT))
/ ("42" %x30-38 7(DIGIT))
/ ("429" %x30-33 6(DIGIT))
/ ("4294" %x30-38 5(DIGIT))
/ ("42949" %x30-35 4(DIGIT))
/ ("429496" %x30-36 3(DIGIT))
/ ("4294967" %x30-31 2(DIGIT))
/ ("42949672" %x30-38 (DIGIT))
/ ("429496729" %x30-34)
;
; unsigned encoding of non-zero 32-bit value:
; 1 .. 4294967295
four-octet = "0" / nonzero-four-octet
;
; unsigned encoding of 32-bit value:
; 0 .. 4294967295
uri-element = URI-reference
; as defined in [RFC3986]
token = 1*token-char
; copied from [RFC4566]
token-char = %x21 / %x23-27 / %x2A-2B / %x2D-2E /
%x30-39 / %x41-5A / %x5E-7E
; copied from [RFC4566]
cid-block = 1*cid-char
cid-char = token-char
cid-char =/ "@"
cid-char =/ ","
cid-char =/ ";"
cid-char =/ ":"
cid-char =/ "\"
cid-char =/ "/"
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cid-char =/ "["
cid-char =/ "]"
cid-char =/ "?"
cid-char =/ "="
;
; - Add back in the tspecials [RFC2045], except
; for DQUOTE and the non-email safe ( ) < >.
; - Note that the definitions above ensure that
; cid-block is always enclosed with DQUOTEs.
A = %x41 ; Uppercase-only letters used above.
B = %x42
C = %x43
D = %x44
E = %x45
F = %x46
G = %x47
H = %x48
J = %x4A
K = %x4B
M = %x4D
N = %x4E
P = %x50
Q = %x51
T = %x54
V = %x56
W = %x57
X = %x58
Y = %x59
Z = %x5A
NZ-DIGIT = %x31-39 ; non-zero decimal digit
U-HEXDIG = DIGIT / A / B / C / D / E / F
; variant of HEXDIG [RFC5234] :
; hexadecimal digit using uppercase A-F only
; The rules below are from the Core Rules from [RFC5234].
BIT = "0" / "1"
DQUOTE = %x22 ; " (Double Quote)
DIGIT = %x30-39 ; 0-9
; external references
; URI-reference: from [RFC3986]
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; subtype-name: from [RFC4288]
;
; End of ABNF
The mpeg4-generic RTP payload [RFC3640] defines a mode parameter that
signals the type of MPEG stream in use. We add a new mode value,
rtp-midi, using the ABNF rule below:
;
; mpeg4-generic mode parameter extension
;
mode =/ "rtp-midi"
; as described in Section 6.2 of this memo
Appendix E. A MIDI Overview for Networking Specialists
This appendix presents an overview of the MIDI standard for the
benefit of networking specialists new to musical applications.
Implementors should consult [MIDI] for a normative description of
MIDI.
Musicians make music by performing a controlled sequence of physical
movements. For example, a pianist plays by coordinating a series of
key presses, key releases, and pedal actions. MIDI represents a
musical performance by encoding these physical gestures as a sequence
of MIDI commands. This high-level musical representation is compact
but fragile: one lost command may be catastrophic to the performance.
MIDI commands have much in common with the machine instructions of a
microprocessor. MIDI commands are defined as binary elements.
Bitfields within a MIDI command have a regular structure and a
specialized purpose. For example, the upper nibble of the first
command octet (the opcode field) codes the command type. MIDI
commands may consist of an arbitrary number of complete octets, but
most MIDI commands are 1, 2, or 3 octets in length.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Channel Voice Messages | Bitfield Pattern |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| NoteOff (end a note) | 1000cccc 0nnnnnnn 0vvvvvvv |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| NoteOn (start a note) | 1001cccc 0nnnnnnn 0vvvvvvv |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| PTouch (Polyphonic Aftertouch) | 1010cccc 0nnnnnnn 0aaaaaaa |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| CControl (Controller Change) | 1011cccc 0xxxxxxx 0yyyyyyy |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| PChange (Program Change) | 1100cccc 0ppppppp |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| CTouch (Channel Aftertouch) | 1101cccc 0aaaaaaa |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| PWheel (Pitch Wheel) | 1110cccc 0xxxxxxx 0yyyyyyy |
-------------------------------------------------------------
Figure E.1 -- MIDI Channel Messages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| System Common Messages | Bitfield Pattern |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| System Exclusive | 11110000, followed by a |
| | list of 0xxxxxx octets, |
| | followed by 11110111 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| MIDI Time Code Quarter Frame | 11110001 0xxxxxxx |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Song Position Pointer | 11110010 0xxxxxxx 0yyyyyyy |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Song Select | 11110011 0xxxxxxx |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Undefined | 11110100 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Undefined | 11110101 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Tune Request | 11110110 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| System Exclusive End Marker | 11110111 |
-------------------------------------------------------------
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| System Real-Time Messages | Bitfield Pattern |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Clock | 11111000 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Undefined | 11111001 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Start | 11111010 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Continue | 11111011 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Stop | 11111100 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Undefined | 11111101 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Active Sense | 11111110 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| System Reset | 11111111 |
-------------------------------------------------------------
Figure E.2 -- MIDI System Messages
Figures E.1 and E.2 show the MIDI command family. There are three
major classes of commands: voice commands (opcode field values in the
range 0x8 through 0xE), System Common commands (opcode field 0xF,
commands 0xF0 through 0xF7), and System Real-Time commands (opcode
field 0xF, commands 0xF8 through 0xFF). Voice commands code the
musical gestures for each timbre in a composition. System commands
perform functions that usually affect all voice channels, such as
System Reset (0xFF).
E.1. Commands Types
A voice command executes on one of 16 MIDI channels, as coded by its
4-bit channel field (field cccc in Figure E.1). In most
applications, notes for different timbres are assigned to different
channels. To support applications that require more than 16
channels, MIDI systems use several MIDI command streams in parallel
to yield 32, 48, or 64 MIDI channels.
As an example of a voice command, consider a NoteOn command (opcode
0x9), with binary encoding 1001cccc 0nnnnnnn 0aaaaaaa. This command
signals the start of a musical note on MIDI channel cccc. The note
has a pitch coded by the note number nnnnnnn, and an onset amplitude
coded by note velocity aaaaaaa.
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Other voice commands signal the end of notes (NoteOff, opcode 0x8),
map a specific timbre to a MIDI channel (PChange, opcode 0xC), or set
the value of parameters that modulate the timbral quality (all other
voice commands). The exact meaning of most voice channel commands
depends on the rendering algorithms the MIDI receiver uses to
generate sound. In most applications, a MIDI sender has a model (in
some sense) of the rendering method used by the receiver.
System commands perform a variety of global tasks in the stream,
including "sequencer" playback control of pre-recorded MIDI commands
(the Song Position Pointer, Song Select, Clock, Start, Continue, and
Stop messages), SMPTE time code (the MIDI Time Code Quarter Frame
command), and the communication of device-specific data (the System
Exclusive messages).
E.2. Running Status
All MIDI command bitfields share a special structure: the leading bit
of the first octet is set to 1, and the leading bit of all subsequent
octets is set to 0. This structure supports a data compression
system, called running status [MIDI], that improves the coding
efficiency of MIDI.
In running status coding, the first octet of a MIDI voice command may
be dropped if it is identical to the first octet of the previous MIDI
voice command. This rule, in combination with a convention to
consider NoteOn commands with a null third octet as NoteOff commands,
supports the coding of note sequences using two octets per command.
Running status coding is only used for voice commands. The presence
of a System Common message in the stream cancels running status mode
for the next voice command. However, System Real-Time messages do
not cancel running status mode.
E.3. Command Timing
The bitfield formats in Figures E.1 and E.2 do not encode the
execution time for a command. Timing information is not a part of
the MIDI command syntax itself; different applications of the MIDI
command language use different methods to encode timing.
For example, the MIDI command set acts as the transport layer for
MIDI 1.0 DIN cables [MIDI]. MIDI cables are short asynchronous
serial lines that facilitate the remote operation of musical
instruments and audio equipment. Timestamps are not sent over a MIDI
1.0 DIN cable. Instead, the standard uses an implicit "time of
arrival" code. Receivers execute MIDI commands at the moment of
arrival.
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In contrast, Standard MIDI Files (SMFs, [MIDI]), a file format for
representing complete musical performances, add an explicit timestamp
to each MIDI command, using a delta encoding scheme that is optimized
for statistics of musical performance. SMF timestamps usually code
timing using the metric notation of a musical score. SMF meta-events
are used to add a tempo map to the file so that score beats may be
accurately converted into units of seconds during rendering.
E.4. AudioSpecificConfig Templates for MMA Renderers
In Section 6.2 and Appendix C.6.5, we describe how session
descriptions include an AudioSpecificConfig data block to specify a
MIDI rendering algorithm for mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI streams.
The bitfield format of AudioSpecificConfig is defined in [MPEGAUDIO].
StructuredAudioSpecificConfig, a key data structure coded in
AudioSpecificConfig, is defined in [MPEGSA].
For implementors wishing to specify Structured Audio renderers, a
full understanding of [MPEGSA] and [MPEGAUDIO] is essential.
However, many implementors will limit their rendering options to the
two MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) renderers that may be
specified in AudioSpecificConfig: General MIDI (GM, [MIDI]) and
Downloadable Sounds 2 (DLS 2, [DLS2]).
To aid these implementors, we reproduce the AudioSpecificConfig
bitfield formats for a GM renderer and a DLS 2 renderer below. We
have checked these bitfields carefully and believe they are correct.
However, we stress that the material below is informative and that
[MPEGAUDIO] and [MPEGSA] are the normative definitions for
AudioSpecificConfig.
As described in Section 6.2, a minimal mpeg4-generic session
description encodes the AudioSpecificConfig binary bitfield as a
hexadecimal string (whose format is defined in [RFC3640]) that is
assigned to the "config" parameter. As described in Appendix C.6.3,
a session description that uses the render parameter encodes the
AudioSpecificConfig binary bitfield as a Base64-encoded string
assigned to the inline parameter or in the body of an HTTP URL
assigned to the url parameter.
Below, we show a simplified binary AudioSpecificConfig bitfield
format, suitable for sending and receiving GM and DLS 2 data:
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| AOTYPE |FREQIDX|CHANNEL|SACNK| FILE_BLK 1 (required) ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|1|SACNK| FILE_BLK 2 (optional) ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |1|SACNK| FILE_BLK N (optional) ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0|0| (first "0" bit terminates FILE_BLK list)
+-+-+
Figure E.3 -- Simplified AudioSpecificConfig
The 5-bit AOTYPE field specifies the Audio Object Type as an unsigned
integer. The legal values for use with mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI
streams are "15" (General MIDI), "14" (DLS 2), and "13" (Structured
Audio). Thus, receivers that do not support all three mpeg4-generic
renderers may parse the first 5 bits of an AudioSpecificConfig coded
in a session description and reject sessions that specify unsupported
renderers.
The 4-bit FREQIDX field specifies the sampling rate of the renderer.
We show the mapping of FREQIDX values to sampling rates in Figure
E.4. Senders MUST specify a sampling frequency that matches the RTP
clock rate, if possible; if not, senders MUST specify the escape
value. Receivers MUST consult the RTP clock parameter for the true
sampling rate if the escape value is specified.
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FREQIDX Sampling Frequency
0x0 96000
0x1 88200
0x2 64000
0x3 48000
0x4 44100
0x5 32000
0x6 24000
0x7 22050
0x8 16000
0x9 12000
0xa 11025
0xb 8000
0xc reserved
0xd reserved
0xe reserved
0xf escape value
Figure E.4 -- FreqIdx Encoding
The 4-bit CHANNEL field specifies the number of audio channels for
the renderer. The values 0x1 to 0x5 specify 1 to 5 audio channels;
the value 0x6 specifies 5+1 surround sound; and the value 0x7
specifies 7+1 surround sound. If the rtpmap line in the session
description specifies one of these formats, CHANNEL MUST be set to
the corresponding value. Otherwise, CHANNEL MUST be set to 0x0.
The CHANNEL field is followed by a list of one or more binary file
data blocks. The 3-bit SACNK field (the chunk_type field in class
StructuredAudioSpecificConfig, defined in [MPEGSA]) specifies the
type of each data block.
For General MIDI, only Standard MIDI Files may appear in the list
(SACNK field value 2). For DLS 2, only Standard MIDI Files and DLS 2
RIFF files (SACNK field value 4) may appear. For both of these file
types, the FILE_BLK field has the format shown in Figure E.5: a
32-bit unsigned integer value (FILE_LEN) coding the number of bytes
in the SMF or RIFF file, followed by FILE_LEN bytes coding the file
data.
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| FILE_LEN (32-bit, a byte count SMF file or RIFF file) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| FILE_DATA (file contents, a list of FILE_LEN bytes) ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure E.5 -- The FILE_BLK Field Format
Note that several files may follow the CHANNEL field. The "1"
constant fields in Figure E.3 code the presence of another file; the
"0" constant field codes the end of the list. The final "0" bit in
Figure E.3 codes the absence of special coding tools (see [MPEGAUDIO]
for details). Senders not using these tools MUST append this "0"
bit; receivers that do not understand these coding tools MUST ignore
all data following a "1" in this position.
The StructuredAudioSpecificConfig bitfield structure requires the
presence of one FILE_BLK. For mpeg4-generic RTP MIDI use of DLS 2,
FILE_BLKs MUST code RIFF files or SMF files. For mpeg4-generic RTP
MIDI use of General MIDI, FILE_BLKs MUST code SMF files. By default,
this SMF will be ignored (Appendix C.6.4.1). In this default case, a
GM StructuredAudioSpecificConfig bitfield SHOULD code a FILE_BLK
whose FILE_LEN is 0 and whose FILE_DATA is empty.
To complete this appendix, we derive the
StructuredAudioSpecificConfig that we use in the General MIDI session
examples in this memo. Referring to Figure E.3, we note that for GM,
AOTYPE = 15. Our examples use a 44,100 Hz sample rate (FREQIDX = 4)
and are in mono (CHANNEL = 1). For GM, a single SMF is encoded
(SACNK = 2), using the SMF shown in Figure E.6 (a 26 byte file).
--------------------------------------------
| MIDI File = <Header Chunk> <Track Chunk> |
--------------------------------------------
<Header Chunk> = <chunk type> <length> <format> <ntrks> <divsn>
4D 54 68 64 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 60
<Track Chunk> = <chunk type> <length> <delta-time> <end-event>
4D 54 72 6B 00 00 00 04 00 FF 2F 00
Figure E.6 -- SMF File Encoded in the Example
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Placing these constants in binary format into the data structure
shown in Figure E.3 yields the constant shown in Figure E.7.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 1 1 1 1|0 1 0 0|0 0 0 1|0 1 0|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0|0 1 0 0|1 1 0 1|0 1 0 1|0 1 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 1 1 0|1 0 0 0|0 1 1 0|0 1 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 1 1 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 1|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 1 1 0|0 0 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 1 0 0|1 1 0 1|0 1 0 1|0 1 0 0|0 1 1 1|0 0 1 0|0 1 1 0|1 0 1 1|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|0 1 1 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1|0 0 1 0|1 1 1 1|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0|0|
+-+-+
Figure E.7 -- AudioSpecificConfig Used in GM Examples
Expressing this bitfield as an ASCII hexadecimal string yields:
7A0A0000001A4D546864000000060000000100604D54726B0000000600FF2F000
This string is assigned to the "config" parameter in the minimal
mpeg4-generic General MIDI examples in this memo (such as the example
in Section 6.2). Expressing this string in Base64 [RFC2045] yields:
egoAAAAaTVRoZAAAAAYAAAABAGBNVHJrAAAABgD/LwAA
This string is assigned to the inline parameter in the General MIDI
example shown in Appendix C.6.5.
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References
Normative References
[MIDI] MIDI Manufacturers Association. "The Complete MIDI 1.0
Detailed Specification", 1996.
[RFC3550] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and V.
Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003.
[RFC3551] Schulzrinne, H. and S. Casner, "RTP Profile for Audio and
Video Conferences with Minimal Control", STD 65, RFC
3551, July 2003.
[RFC3640] van der Meer, J., Mackie, D., Swaminathan, V., Singer,
D., and P. Gentric, "RTP Payload Format for Transport of
MPEG-4 Elementary Streams", RFC 3640, November 2003.
[MPEGSA] International Standards Organization. "ISO/IEC 14496
MPEG-4", Part 3 (Audio), Subpart 5 (Structured Audio),
2001.
[RFC4566] Handley, M., Jacobson, V., and C. Perkins, "SDP: Session
Description Protocol", RFC 4566, July 2006.
[MPEGAUDIO] International Standards Organization. "ISO 14496 MPEG-
4", Part 3 (Audio), 2001.
[RFC2045] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message
Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
[DLS2] MIDI Manufacturers Association. "The MIDI Downloadable
Sounds Specification", v98.2, 1998.
[RFC5234] Crocker, D., Ed., and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for
Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January
2008.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3711] Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E., and K.
Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
(SRTP)", RFC 3711, March 2004.
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[RFC3264] Rosenberg, J. and H. Schulzrinne, "An Offer/Answer Model
with Session Description Protocol (SDP)", RFC 3264, June
2002.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC
3986, January 2005.
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC5888] Camarillo, G. and H. Schulzrinne, "The Session
Description Protocol (SDP) Grouping Framework", RFC 5888,
June 2010.
[RFC2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
[RP015] MIDI Manufacturers Association. "Recommended Practice
015 (RP-015): Response to Reset All Controllers", 11/98.
[RFC4288] Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and
Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December
2005.
[RFC4855] Casner, S., "Media Type Registration of RTP Payload
Formats", RFC 4855, February 2007.
Informative References
[NMP] Lazzaro, J. and J. Wawrzynek. "A Case for Network
Musical Performance", 11th International Workshop on
Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio
and Video (NOSSDAV 2001) June 25-26, 2001, Port
Jefferson, New York.
[GRAME] Fober, D., Orlarey, Y., and S. Letz. "Real Time Musical
Events Streaming over Internet", Proceedings of the
International Conference on WEB Delivering of Music 2001,
pages 147-154.
[RFC3261] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston,
A., Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E.
Schooler, "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261,
June 2002.
[RFC2326] Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A., and R. Lanphier, "Real Time
Streaming Protocol (RTSP)", RFC 2326, April 1998.
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[ALF] Clark, D.D. and D.L. Tennenhouse. "Architectural
Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols",
SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and
Protocols, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), pp. 200-208,
ACM, Sept. 1990.
[RFC4695] Lazzaro, J. and J. Wawrzynek, "RTP Payload Format for
MIDI", RFC 4695, November 2006.
[RFC4696] Lazzaro, J. and J. Wawrzynek, "An Implementation Guide
for RTP MIDI", RFC 4696, November 2006.
[RFC2205] Braden, R., Ed., Zhang, L., Berson, S., Herzog, S., and
S. Jamin, "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) --
Version 1 Functional Specification", RFC 2205, September
1997.
[RFC4571] Lazzaro, J., "Framing Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
and RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Packets over Connection-
Oriented Transport", RFC 4571, July 2006.
[SPMIDI] MIDI Manufacturers Association. "Scalable Polyphony
MIDI, Specification and Device Profiles", Document
Version 1.0a, 2002.
[LCP] Apple Computer. "Logic 7 Dedicated Control Surface
Support", Appendix B. Product manual available from
www.apple.com.
Authors' Addresses
John Lazzaro (corresponding author)
UC Berkeley
CS Division
315 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
EMail: lazzaro@cs.berkeley.edu
John Wawrzynek
UC Berkeley
CS Division
631 Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
EMail: johnw@cs.berkeley.edu
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