Comments on: So I just noticed that MIDI is 30 years old! https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/01/29/so-i-just-noticed-that-midi-is-30-years-old/ Fun with Virtualization Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Michal Necasek https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/01/29/so-i-just-noticed-that-midi-is-30-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-33171 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:39:28 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2831#comment-33171 The really cool kids (I wasn’t one of them) had a MPU-401 with a Roland MT-32 hooked up to it via a MIDI cable. That setup could actually produce really good music, way ahead of AdLib (LA synthesis, something between AdLib style synthesis and wavetable synthesis).

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/01/29/so-i-just-noticed-that-midi-is-30-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-33137 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:48:16 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2831#comment-33137 In reply to Aeonic Butterfly.

I had meant to add that I bought my mother a MIDI deck for 80$
They have gotten cheraper over the years!

]]> By: Aeonic Butterfly https://virtuallyfun.com/2013/01/29/so-i-just-noticed-that-midi-is-30-years-old/comment-page-1/#comment-33134 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:40:41 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=2831#comment-33134 This is funny. I was just talking to my sibling about how good MIDI is as a standard, and they pointed me here. Happy birthday, MIDI, I’d never live without you!

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