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Thread #167248 Message #4053229
Posted By: Mr Red
18-May-20 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: Update to MIDI protocol
Subject: RE: Update to MIDI protocol
New Scientist reckons there is only one box (keyboard?) that conforms to MIDI 2.0 at the moment with a couple more due for release.
The point of 32 bits is to better describe music not on the true temper scale like the Indian sitar, or bends and glides (eg). But their take is that the most exciting effects might not be in music, but in soundscapes in film or virtual reality. Oh gawd!
The new all electric Fiat Cinquecento is to have a low speed noise that is pleasing yet unnatural enough to be a warning. AND you can download any sound. I wonder if MIDI is the vector? Whatever - I shudder to think...................