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Pro Sound Web: MIDI is, to some, a great complicated mystery that they may never wrap their minds around completely.
However, when understood even in the most basic sense, MIDI can be harnessed and used to make the impossible possible.
I found this article very helpful. In the past I've used MIDI, but I never had had a clue what it was about. To me MIDI was "a great complicated mystery that they may never wrap their minds around completely." This article cleared up a lot of the misconceptions I had about how MIDI works. For example I knew that MIDI was only digital signals but I did not know that that it was just a hand full of simple Boolean values. One question I have after reading this article is if there are any types of sounds that can not be played. It seems to me that MIDI is just for music notes, but perhaps I'm not getting the full picture here.
The article was very interesting and informative for those persons who wanted to know the ins and outs of how MIDI generally works. We had an into to MIDI in Production Audio class, but I now have clear understanding of it and as Akiva mentioned has cleared up a lot of misconceptions. On the other hand I now have all this information on how it works but after reading this article I am left asking myself a number of questions. How can MIDI be used specifically in the studio? What benefit may it have when used? What ways can this be used in the studio to boost my overall product?
I don't understand why we continue to use this format for communication in studios or in Theatre. This is an old format that was not meant to be used as we use it for theatre and is unreliable in some circumstances. Basically I think that we need to innovate better communication protocols and we need to find a better way to do the jobs that midi does in the studio because midi I think is reaching the end of its life as a protocol.
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I found this article very helpful. In the past I've used MIDI, but I never had had a clue what it was about. To me MIDI was "a great complicated mystery that they may never wrap their minds around completely." This article cleared up a lot of the misconceptions I had about how MIDI works. For example I knew that MIDI was only digital signals but I did not know that that it was just a hand full of simple Boolean values. One question I have after reading this article is if there are any types of sounds that can not be played. It seems to me that MIDI is just for music notes, but perhaps I'm not getting the full picture here.
The article was very interesting and informative for those persons who wanted to know the ins and outs of how MIDI generally works. We had an into to MIDI in Production Audio class, but I now have clear understanding of it and as Akiva mentioned has cleared up a lot of misconceptions. On the other hand I now have all this information on how it works but after reading this article I am left asking myself a number of questions. How can MIDI be used specifically in the studio? What benefit may it have when used? What ways can this be used in the studio to boost my overall product?
I don't understand why we continue to use this format for communication in studios or in Theatre. This is an old format that was not meant to be used as we use it for theatre and is unreliable in some circumstances. Basically I think that we need to innovate better communication protocols and we need to find a better way to do the jobs that midi does in the studio because midi I think is reaching the end of its life as a protocol.
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