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I agree with you in general, but I think it's important to note that the web has evolved in a forwards incompatible manner. You can't hook up an older device/we

I agree with you in general, but I think it's important to note that the web has evolved in a forwards incompatible manner. You can't hook up an older device/web browser to the modern web and have it work with modern web sites. In many cases (depending on how old) it doesn't even degrade gracefully. On the other hand, you can hook up a 40 year old MIDI keyboard to a brand new iPhone via MIDI and it just works.

brudgers 4y ago
To be pedantic, a forty year old MIDI device will probably have a pretty poor MIDI implementation by the standards of five years later…e.g. the DX7’s MIDI is notoriously limited (and it is only 39 years old). But I get your point.
- Enginerrrd 4y ago
  I see your comment has been down voted, likely due to pedantry, but I wanted to let you know I appreciated it. One of the things I love about this site is the tremendous depth of otherwise obscure knowledge.
  - brudgers 4y ago
    Not being the smartest person in the room is what has always brought me back. To me, the downvotes suggest the way the community is changing. I suspect I could have been just as pedantic without acknowledging it - and perhaps even aggressively argumentative - and been more appreciated by my readers. Probably leaving off the equanimious point-getting sentence would have improved reception. Anyway, MIDI was a ChatGPT of my youth and because I was gear aware when the DX7 showed up in music stores, now that I have empty nest adult money I have considered buying one and hence done some research. A fantasy largely abandoned after having bought and sold a handful of cheaper and lighter late 80's Yamaha MIDI instruments. For what it's worth, there is a somewhat rare third party upgrade board for the DX7's MIDI ports, and if the maximum you want to do is send and receive Note On/Off on a single channel a stock DX7 will be good enough. It just doesn't do most of what people expect MIDI to do even though what it does is pretty amazing for the price when it was released. Thanks for giving me an excuse to write.
    - jacquesm 4y ago
      Hm, I have a spare one here that you are welcome to but I believe you are on another continent?
      - brudgers 4y ago
        No. It is just what was going through my head compelling my pedantry. And what was going through my head as the downvotes happened. And as I read your comment. Then started writing. What happens when I have the time and mood to write. Self awareness is another thing HN gives me.

brudgers 4y ago

To be pedantic, a forty year old MIDI device will probably have a pretty poor MIDI implementation by the standards of five years later…e.g. the DX7’s MIDI is notoriously limited (and it is only 39 years old). But I get your point.

Enginerrrd 4y ago
I see your comment has been down voted, likely due to pedantry, but I wanted to let you know I appreciated it. One of the things I love about this site is the tremendous depth of otherwise obscure knowledge.
- brudgers 4y ago
  Not being the smartest person in the room is what has always brought me back. To me, the downvotes suggest the way the community is changing. I suspect I could have been just as pedantic without acknowledging it - and perhaps even aggressively argumentative - and been more appreciated by my readers. Probably leaving off the equanimious point-getting sentence would have improved reception. Anyway, MIDI was a ChatGPT of my youth and because I was gear aware when the DX7 showed up in music stores, now that I have empty nest adult money I have considered buying one and hence done some research. A fantasy largely abandoned after having bought and sold a handful of cheaper and lighter late 80's Yamaha MIDI instruments. For what it's worth, there is a somewhat rare third party upgrade board for the DX7's MIDI ports, and if the maximum you want to do is send and receive Note On/Off on a single channel a stock DX7 will be good enough. It just doesn't do most of what people expect MIDI to do even though what it does is pretty amazing for the price when it was released. Thanks for giving me an excuse to write.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    Hm, I have a spare one here that you are welcome to but I believe you are on another continent?
    - brudgers 4y ago
      No. It is just what was going through my head compelling my pedantry. And what was going through my head as the downvotes happened. And as I read your comment. Then started writing. What happens when I have the time and mood to write. Self awareness is another thing HN gives me.