This paper provides an in-depth look at the Global Musical Instrument Communication Standard (GMICS-) from the electrical, physical, data link, and control perspective. Using the 100-megabit Ethernet physical layer, and newly defined data link and control protocols, GMICS provides a low latency digital audio and control highway appropriate for instruments, especially in live performance situations where delay is intolerable.:

Authors: Flaks, Jason S.; Frantz, Richard
Affiliation: Gibson Guitar Corp, Nashville, TN
AES Convention: 108 (February 2000) Paper Number: 5116
Publication Date: February 1, 2000 Import into BibTeX
Session Subject: Musical Instrument Acoustics; Electronic Music Technology
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