rtpmidid VS Discord-SFZ-GM-Bank

rtpmidid[1]. After getting some hardware synthesizers and wanting to connect them without using a computer.. but being able to use them too using the computer I stumbled upon with rtpmidi the protocol and it ticked all the boxes I needed. I could connect all my gear to a raspberry pi, use ALSA sequencer to connect devices to each other with another of my programs AseqRC[2], and then use my synths from my DAW without touching any cable.

So after a fast prototype I created rtpmidid and I'm quite happy on how it works.

And it also helps with the USB ground loop noise that it seems unavoidable some times.

For some time I had even two Orange Pis connected to two sections of my gear, using USB gadget support so my MPC One could speak rtpmidi. MPC One has support to connect as host to MIDI devices, but as guest (connect to the computer) only in controlled mode which is not what I needed to convert my MIDI tracks to my DAW.

[1] https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid

My hope is that they finish the MIDI 2.0 rtpmidi protocol, and that starts to be truly used in real hardware, not half used as current rtpmidi.

This would allow easy connectivity with very low latency over normal LAN, including switches, power over Ethernet...

Disclaimer: I created a rtpmidi implementation for linux https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid

I've been using rtp-midi, using rtpmidid and it's working fine.

I'm trying to figure out how to use rtpmidid by David Moreno with my iConnectivity Mio XL. Just running rtpmidid makes all ports show up in Carla and in Reaper, but no MIDI seems to be sent. In Bitwig i can't even see the ports. Maybe because it uses jackmidi and rtpmidid uses alsamidi?

To my knowledge there are no GM SFZ instrument packs which contain enough instruments to play any MIDI file out there (https://github.com/sfzinstruments/Discord-SFZ-GM-Bank has like 10 melodic instruments so far). So I have to pick instruments from the ground up when creating a DAW project (and I don't have a good collection yet), rather than using a unified full-GM bank as a starting point. And don't even think about downloading (eg. Doom) MIDI files and playing them in a soundfont of choice.

What's the spiritual successor to General MIDI? Or is the concept no longer viable for (or even wanted by) mainstream electronic, or even semi-orchestral, composers?