[sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?

[Ian Fritz]

>
>I will back up Don here.
>
>He talked about playing a Hammond - now how will you transfer the
>phrasing of a Hammond (with several contacts per key) over Midi,
>which only knows velocity and release velocity, assuming a linear
>interpolation between the action of just two key contacts ?


Sorry, but I disagree. MIDI is certainly *not* limited to the common, 
simple note-on note-off messages that we usually see.  For example, 
Information for several contacts per key could easily be sent over MIDI 
using the "General Purpose Controllers" CC# 10-13 and CC# 50-53. There are 
also many undefined CC controllers that could be used.  True, there is 
probably no keyboard that currently does this, and probably no synth that 
that would be able to use the information. But this is not due to any fault 
or limitation of MIDI.

Lists of the parameters for the various allowed MIDI messages are available 
online:

http://crystal.apana.org.au/ghansper/midi_introduction/midi_channel_voice.html

http://crystal.apana.org.au/ghansper/midi_introduction/midi_control_change.html

   Ian