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I mostly agree, if you're talking about expression, though I thought MIDI 2.0 would improve the expression story. For anyone wondering about MIDI's limitations
by likeclockwork 3y ago
I mostly agree, if you're talking about expression, though I thought MIDI 2.0 would improve the expression story.
For anyone wondering about MIDI's limitations, here's a post by Roger Linn going into it a bit: https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/support/why-expression https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/support/why-expression
> So why is this expressive touch control important? Because under skilled hands, the ability to capture subtle musical gestures enables more interesting and expressive solo performances than a MIDI keyboard's on/off switches. Consider a guitarist's string bends, a violinist's skillful vibrato, or a wind player's subtle breath control, all of which can't be authentically replicated on a MIDI keyboard.
>In my view, the limitations of MIDI keyboards have resulted in electronically-generated music being used largely for background music
- wyager 3y agoWhen was this written? Isn't this kind of of solved by MPE (which I believe Linn makes use of)? We're starting to see several MPE-capable instruments hit the market. I have a pre-order out for the Osmose keyboard, which has per-key pressure and per-key (horizontal) pitch bend. If pre-release reviews are to be believed, it does a very good job capturing things like "a guitarist's string bends, [or] a violinist's skillful vibrato".
- scns 3y ago>> In my view, the limitations of MIDI keyboards have resulted in electronically-generated music being used largely for background music. Someone needs to tell Roger Linn about Raves i think.