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

[jdm at synthcom.com]

At 03:41 PM 1/15/2002, Don Tillman wrote:

>A 1/4-second slide over slide over 4 octaves of white notes (think
>Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis here) is an easy 128 notes per second.
> <SNIP>
>MIDI is about 1 mSec per note.

.64 msec in most cases, as I've stated before.  That's 1562 notes per
second.  When you play notes at that rate, your ears can't distinguish
between individual notes, plain and simple.  Europa's arpeggiator sounds
like an LFO doing pitch modulation at the higher clock rates.  Who the hell
plays THAT fast?

JDM