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Subject: Re: [motm] MIDI sucks (not as much as you think)

From: "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@...>
Date: 2000-08-12

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From: Tony Karavidas <tony@...>

MIDI was developed (what 16 years ago??) with a good balance of features
that manufacturers could swallow. There were several deviations (Oberheim
digital bus, Roland DCB, Voyetra XLR MIDI connectors) but none of these
"took."

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Seem like some other manufacutrer tried to get XLRs to fly as the MIDI
connector of choice as 5 pin DINs might have been viewed as too cheap or
flimsy. Wasn't it Sequential? Maybe on the Prophet 600 ? Anyone else
remember? I seem to remember as I was synth shopping for my first poly
synth about the time. Popular at the time was the Juno 60 (my eventual
choice) with DCB, the Korg Poly 6 and Poly 61 (Damn, wasn't that 61 the
start of the "I don't need no stinkin' knobs" movement") and the SC Prophet
600 with that funny MIDI thing.

Larry H