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

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:34:54 -0700
   From: Ian Fritz <ijfritz at earthlink.net>

   MIDI appears to have plenty of bandwidth for transmitting
   controller information to a synth. A MIDI data stream sends about
   1000 messages per second, comparable to what the most virtuostic
   pianist can produce.

A virtuoso like... Little Richard?  "Woo-ooo-ooo-ooo!"  

Seriously, a slide up the white keys over MIDI will create an awful
lot of note-on *and* note-off messages and the timing between them
will be grossly altered.  Then there's a double-slide, playing a sixth
with two fingers and sliding that sixth up the white keys.  That's
twice the number of messages still, though the slide goes a little
slower.

And if I slap five notes at *exactly* the same time MIDI that will
spread out to 5 mSec.  That's audible.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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