On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:01:57AM -0400, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 6/9/22 23:47, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
MIDI is both a simple cabling and serial interface to connect digital audio instruments to a computer;
I have to speak up here. MIDI is often used to connect musical instruments to a computer, especially hobbyists at home, but that's not its only role, and I'd argue from my own experience that it's a comparatively minor role. MIDI is also used to interconnect instruments, and connect controllers (like keyboards, pedals, pads, etc that don't have synthesizer circuitry in them) to instruments.
For anyone who would like to learn more about the contributions and career of Dave Smith, Syntaur posted a nice tribute to him yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyvbOYBBc2I ObVCF: His Prophet 5 design was one of the (if not the) first commercial synths to use a microprocessor to control an analog sound path. BLS