scope:

This document defines the audio and music data transmission protocol as an instance of a real-time data transmission protocol to be standardized under IEC 61883-1/FDIS in the future. The audio and music data transmission protocol can be applied to all modules or devices which have any kind of audio and/or music data processing, generation and conversion function blocks. This specification deals only with the transmission of audio and music data; the control, status and machine readable description of these modules or devices should be defined outside of this specification according to each application area.