[sdiy] Re: Why MIDI? (was Re:

[karl dalen]

--- cheater <cheater at salsa.pl> skrev: > My broken one and a half pence:
> 
> I'm a newcomer to the synth world, and one thing I always pretty much hated
> was:
> 
> *MIDI*
> It's the most awful, crude, proprietary, stupid, unimaginative, handicapped,
> etc  standard that I've ever seen.

You have got it """a bit wrong"""!
Read its historical backgrounds!

Midi is not propietary, its one of the very few non propietary protocoll
that ever have ben released. It has it quirks as any protocoll has but
quite straigth forward if you dont mumbojumbo it up!!

However the hardware for MIdi 1.0 is not up to date.
 
> It's a relict of the past, and was made in the times and possibilities of
> computers
> the kind of Atari and Spectrum.

Midi was inwented before the Atari,and yes its done in the past! 

> And it all was pretty much *forced* into a world of musicians. Where
> musicians should
> be all of the above, negated.

Read the historical backgrounds of midi please. At that time it was 
a blessing, no thanks i dont what the crap that was before, all kind
of propietary 8bit interfaces and protocoll!! Ugh! Ugh again!
 
> Midi requires you to be, pretty much, a programmer to understand it. Sure,
> I'm in Mensa, but I don't think I can be f?cked with understanding just
> another
> piece of trash information that's required to play a keyboard (d'oh!).
> Midi specification sheets anyone? *puke*

Note on note of is very simple! 
 
> Or, take a comparison between an "analog" knob and an "encoder midi knob":
> continuous versus 127 discrete settings? *puke*

Use MCS and data lengts can be 16 bits if you like!
 
> How about velocity? 127 settings? *puke*

Puke or use MCS!
 
> Or let's take on non-standard scales. *puke*

Use MCS!

> How about running 100000 cables from a single keyboard to something else:
> take a Kurzweil 2xxx - s/pdif connector cables, input cables, midi, usb,
> ethernet
> (no idea if in Kurzweil, but some do have that), then come time sync cables,
> ADAT,  etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, *puke*, etc, etc. Again, *puke*

Use cheap bytheflight optics and POF!
I will go in the fore front of Midi 2.0 wich uses the same
protocoll but uses any hardware interface and  uses dynamic
rate UART, wich will make it quite fast! Fiber optics anyone!
Anyone in favor of Midi 2.0 done by the unated diy in public domain?

> How about non-standard patch memories? Everyone has a kink of their own. And
> managing
> that is just a big pain in the ass. Come to think of a sound which you stored
> and  forgot what synth it was created on - *puke*

Manage your self into orders! 
(whooaaahaha, silly me, i have loads of old patch casettes wich i
dont have the slightes clue on what machine the belong to!!) :-)
 
> MIDI timing issues? *puke*

Puke!
 
> Sending samples down through Midi? *puke*

Puke, puke!
 
> Interfacing synths with eachother at all? *puke*

Hrmm!
 
> Midi2CV converters? What the hell is that crap supposed to be? *puke*

Neat! 
 
> All in all, I think it's easily visible what I'm pointing at.
> If we want the usability of digital to even remotely compete with the
> ergonomics
> of the analog (note, I'm talking about *ERGONOMICS*, *EASE OF USE*, not
> "hey that prophet vst JUST DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT, aww")
> 
> WE NEED A NEW CABLE.
> 
> Remember, kids: Midi = *puke*

No, never, i refuse! (ok then, a tiny, puke) 
 
> So maybe we could talk about the possibilities of this, hm? :o)

Reg
KD

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