<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/13/02 4:16:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, chris@smg.org writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">MIDI definitely isn't musical. It makes roughly the same sounds that your
<BR>modem does when you're signing on. I wouldn't want to listen to that all day
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<BR>Nice analogy, but not quite <nitpicking mode>What you hear from a modem speaker is the analog signal that's been produced by modulating data onto the carrier..MIDI is digital the whole way, though it would still probably make a noise since playing it through a speaker would be like bursts of square waves.</nitpicking mode> still not something I'd really want to listen to for long periods of time. Naturally, this has nothing to do really with the discussion at hand, but whatever...
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