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The typeset stuff was invented way before midi tho. Just that MIDI was really invented for electronic instruments and, well, most of them were notes generated
by ilyt 4y ago
The typeset stuff was invented way before midi tho.
Just that MIDI was really invented for electronic instruments and, well, most of them were notes generated by pressing keys and maybe a modulation bar or joystick. Hell, arguably you still could transfer a lot of those modulations via CC commands but you'd have to standarise on which exact CC change corresponds to what instrument's technique.
That being said MIDI 1.0 clearly has a bunch of pain points (low resolution, no bidi communication making auto-config hard etc.) that are getting fixed in 2.0 but that just slowly started, so 1.0 is there to stay for a long time still.
- ajross 4y ago> The typeset stuff was invented way before midi tho. To be clear: that was the point. Typeset music notation has struggled to keep up with the physical expression of music[1] for hundreds and hundreds of years. There's nothing new about this problem, and it has nothing to do with MIDI. [1] And MIDI is just another such expression in this context. MIDI is absolutely not an attempt to reproduce typeset music, it's designed to capture electronic instrument behavior.
- ilyt 4y agoBoth typeset music and MIDI is trying to translate expression of the artist into a protocol/notation so I don't think it's unfair to compare the two