Cant do it any better way, it's simple effective and is a continuation of self playing pianos which used card cut outs on a paper roll to play notes.

yes. it was usually hilariously bad when you played a midi file through your GM module, MIDI never really nailed that aspect of it!

100%, 40 years is a crazy long time for a technical communication protocol, and I have a feeling the 1.0 spec will still be used 40 years from now!

It's simple, I think the first type of software to use it would of been trackers which is literally the midi data direct into a timed runner.

this comment cheered me up greatly, thank you for sharing some joy today. great video idea btw, thanks again.

new subscriber and I get exactly what you are saying!

Yes, nice story! This gives me nostalgic feelings. Starting around 1988 with a Yamaha PSS680 and later a Kawai K4 with DOS-PC with Sequencer Plus and midi interface trying to make Jean Michel Jarre songs. Amazing memories!

i wonder also where my old 32 is now! miss it.

🎶 Variation on Paganini's "24th Caprice" by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Julian Lloyd Webber

yeah, when checking a few things I stumbled across that, it seems crazy at first until it makes perfect sense. it must be where the term "piano roll" editor comes from.

@@WoodyPianoShack Yes you got it woody, it's all fascinating history to be honest, I did alot of research into how we went from the Harpsichord to the modern day electronic keyboards.

thanks! what's legacy stuff please?

@@WoodyPianoShack superseded vintage gear like the single note synth KORG MS20 you used when you were 10. As you know, I've still got it, unused for 40 years, so not sure if it will still work.

Oooow a classic.

yes, that's why the ST became so popular in music studios, and revolutionized PC MIDI sequencing.

that's some old school stuff there with all those splitter boxes, I have some ancient midi interfaces which I wanted to dig out, but in storage!

Forgot to add, MIDI has also been used for things completely unrelated with Music, like controlling light or other device you can control. It is quite impressive how, "out of the box" MIDI has been used and how well it stood the test of time

i see similarities to the TCP/IP protocol used for the internet, when designed the inventors could have had no clue that it would be used to stream netflix movies, but it handles it perfectly. amazing forward thinking.

midi books, wow, you're hard core! i have a hunch that v2.0 might help some with the flute :)

Sort of in the same boat as I play the aerophone-10 and set up a MOTU XT express midi 8x8 interface to connect the wind synth thru my tone generator and 80's synthesizer. Also connect the Alesis MMT8 track sequencer to record the midi track file. I consider midi the best format to learn about music composition because of the flexibility to arrange anything, for a one man band deal. Also because of the small size there is zero latency unlike audio!

Zipi? Never heard of it, tell Me more?

@@HOLLASOUNDS Since my memory of 25+ year old Electronic Musician articles is not to be trusted, here's a bit from the wikipedia article: _"Zeta Instrument Processor Interface (ZIPI) was a research project initiated by Zeta Instruments and UC Berkeley's CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies). Introduced in 1994 in a series of publications in Computer Music Journal from MIT Press, ZIPI was intended as the next-generation transport protocol for digital musical instruments, designed with compliance to the OSI model."_ _"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."_ _"As no commercial devices were released supporting ZIPI, the sufficiency of MIDI for most applications and the introduction of the "FireWire" (IEEE1394) as the alternative physical layer soon led to the practical demise of the project. ZIPI web site at CNMAT asserts that IEEE1394 "supersedes ZIPI in every respect," mainly because it has simpler interface requirements: it does not require a hub, supports hot plugging (devices may be added or removed more conveniently), and includes an isolated power distribution scheme."_

Actually it's more like a digitised version of a early 1900s self playing piano roll.

@@HOLLASOUNDS Old but still extremely useful. :-D

@@petertorda5487 Yes however I dont actually have any midi cables so have to do it with usb.

hi, in this case your best bet I think is to record the audio on the motif, I think it is capable of that. but then it would be bounced to a stereo mix, maybe ok for you?

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