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Only yesterday, I saw a video of someone playing a huge pipe organ from a laptop via MIDI. And it worked. Despite its shortcomings, it's an amazing communicatio
by tgv 4y ago
Only yesterday, I saw a video of someone playing a huge pipe organ from a laptop via MIDI. And it worked. Despite its shortcomings, it's an amazing communication model. Quite the legacy.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoBeloved by keyboard players. Not quite so much by performers who generally perform on other instrument designs. MIDI is excellent at representing the performance characteristics of a keyboard, but you really have to warp it quite a bit to represent performance on stringed or wind instruments.
- tgv 4y agoTrue. That's one of the shortcomings I alluded too, but still it's possible to achieve fairly reasonable sound with MIDI of percussion, guitar, and even violin performance. I think the main reason other performers like it a lot less is that there's no way to digitally capture of their performance parameters. E.g., there are some guitar pickups with MIDI out, but that can't capture the techniques, even though MIDI could represent it (albeit in a non-standard fashion).