It’s not a drop-in replacement. MIDI is simple enough to trigger something with a single pin going high low. It’s basically a close to bare metal switching you can get, you can implement it on an arduino 8 bit MCU or worse. MIDI doesn’t even have the transport timed?! the rate the data flows at is the timing you get.
Now this MIDI 2.0 is for computers and it’s fancy and undoubtedly does everything even make coffee.
This MIDI 2.0 is basically a competitive protocol to OSC, not MIDI<p>More layers, more complexity, let alone USB endpoints and software timers = this is not going to be the fun thing everyone thinks it will.
Anyone played with a Waldorf product called the Blofeld? You feel latency that varies while you turn knobs in local-on mode! I’m not saying all implementations of hardware synths will feel bad in the future, but there is a giant ball of denial as to how newer not so embedded systems perform.