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

[matti]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Ian Fritz wrote:

> At 07:03 PM 1/13/2002, matti wrote:
>
> >well. once you start sending data that is explicitly timbre, say for FM,
> >MIDI starts to fall short.
>
> I don't understand what this means. Could you give a specific example?

I mean sending audio data instead note number, and so on.

*snip*
> rapidly, then quantization levels may be skipped, producing audible
> zippering. The receiving synth should smooth these steps out. Some do, some
> don't. If no levels are skipped then the zippering is not audible.

but has MIDI got the bandwidth to send 16 audio  signals at once? I don't
think it does.


*snip*
> MIDI supports lots of processes. Look at the specs. It's current
> controllers and synths that don't support the processes.
>

maybe you're right. maybe we're talking at differnt things. it seems to
make an intuiting sort of sense, though, that the processes I referred to
are the meta-processes of the coming into being of musical artifacts; when
MIDI is used, there are changes.

of course, I'm not in the right mind to think deeply about this, as
required.
*snip*

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