Mackie Control is open already (even if Mackie didn't really intend that to be the case).
Eucon is a perfect example of how to make a control protocol so powerful that nobody can ever really use it, or at least, not more than 5% of its capabilities.
Mackie and Eucon do not provide music performance data, so they would never be involved in pitch control. MTS can already be used to do microtonal stuff, but very few synthesizers are MTS aware, so the fact that you can do it already with MIDI 1.0 doesn't help a whole lot. Maybe 2.0 will encourage (a few?) more synth makers (soft/hard) to support MTS and/or the new stuff, but maybe it won't.
Eucon is a perfect example of how to make a control protocol so powerful that nobody can ever really use it, or at least, not more than 5% of its capabilities.
Mackie and Eucon do not provide music performance data, so they would never be involved in pitch control. MTS can already be used to do microtonal stuff, but very few synthesizers are MTS aware, so the fact that you can do it already with MIDI 1.0 doesn't help a whole lot. Maybe 2.0 will encourage (a few?) more synth makers (soft/hard) to support MTS and/or the new stuff, but maybe it won't.