Woodwind midi already exists. It's just not popular because people think Midi lacks feeling but there is so much you can do with it. There is some famous trumpet player in Australia (I think!) that has a midi trumpet.
Midi is better explained if you think of it almost like a language or a protocol (...kind of). You can have several devices controlled from one source using midi signals sent from the source. You can also change the parameters of the controls of several devices but it's all done from the source.
Here's a bad example: I have 3 devices, a drum machine, a keyboard and a sample sequencer. All of these devices can send and recieve midi information. The control or source device is the sequencer. This is connected to the drum machine and then to the keyboard. Midi makes it possible for me to program some loops that the drum machine will play and some tunes that the keyboard will play, all without having to touch the drum machine or keyboard. (Of course, there is some setting up to be done) That's what midi really is. When you download a midi file off the net it's just a control file that uses your own soundcard to make the noise.
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it also does a good job of distracting us from the military presence in various places here on earth, or is that just old news now?
Woodwind midi already exists. It's just not popular because people think Midi lacks feeling but there is so much you can do with it. There is some famous trumpet player in Australia (I think!) that has a midi trumpet.
Midi is not just the bleeps and bloops you hear.
Midi is better explained if you think of it almost like a language or a protocol (...kind of). You can have several devices controlled from one source using midi signals sent from the source. You can also change the parameters of the controls of several devices but it's all done from the source.
Here's a bad example:
I have 3 devices, a drum machine, a keyboard and a sample sequencer. All of these devices can send and recieve midi information. The control or source device is the sequencer. This is connected to the drum machine and then to the keyboard. Midi makes it possible for me to program some loops that the drum machine will play and some tunes that the keyboard will play, all without having to touch the drum machine or keyboard. (Of course, there is some setting up to be done)
That's what midi really is. When you download a midi file off the net it's just a control file that uses your own soundcard to make the noise.
Does this mean that when, (and it will) the MAN expands and becomes a WOrld Metro Area Network it will be called WOMAN?
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