Concept
The draft working version of ZIPI was primarily aimed at addressing many limitations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Unlike MIDI which uses a peer-to-peer serial port connection, ZIPI was designed to run over a star network with a hub in the center. This allowed for faster connection and disconnection, because there was no need to daisy-chain multiple devices. Ethernet 10Base-T was used at the physical layer, but the protocol did not depend on any physical implementation.
There were proposals for querying device capabilities, patch names and other system and patch parameters, as well as uploading and downloading samples into device memory.
Read more about this topic: Zeta Instrument Processor Interface
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