From Kenneth Elhardt Sent Wed, Jul 25th 2007, 19:41
From Kenneth Elhardt Sent Wed, Jul 25th 2007, 19:41
Mark Pulver writes: >>Damn... can anyone else hear Elhardt bashing away at his next diatribe while laughing up a storm and yelling "MY MAN!"?<< When I answer people's posts it's either called a troll or now a diatribe. I suppose next time I have questions directed straight to me, silence on my part might be a better option. John Mahoney writes: >>Royce is right to rant about MIDI. Ethernet in common PCs has gone from 10Mbps to 100Mbps and 1Gbps while MIDI has languished at a mere thousands of bit per second. Pretty sad.<< Almost right after the introduction of MIDI, there was talk about a parallel version of MIDI. I assume that would have been at least 8 times faster. But that never happened. >>but I am of the impression that the consensus is that Macs have good MIDI timing (an oxymoron?) while Windows has known MIDI timing issues. Feel free to comment << Yep. When I try to play a solid 8 note piano chord on my XP based PC, they don't all sound at exactly the same time. So I wouldn't have much confidence in the PC. I need to use my Emulator4 for tight playing of piano samples. sizzlemeister writes: >>Synchronicity. I recently had a moment of "I hate MIDI and the fact it hasn't been superseded" myself. So, the solution I found that works the best for me, and is free, is that I play nearly all of the parts by hand now. I know, I'm weird.<< Good answer. There once was a time when MIDI didn't even exist. And cv/gate sequencers were just used for the parts that you wanted to sound like a sequencer was playing, not for all the of music. How I wish we could roll back time and be back in those times. Stefan Rinass writes: >>I cannot perform anything without Midi (some parts yes, but almost no)., due the fact that i have some problems with my hands, wanna say, that they sometimes do not not play, what -i- want. For example playing a simple up-down loop with approx. 8 Notes, three loops are ok and at the fourth one i will press a wrong key.<< 8 note loops? If that's almost all of what your music consists of then there's your problem. Sequencers for loops and hand playing for the stuff that actually changes and goes somewhere and that is supposed to contain some kind of expressive playing and human emotion. Or perhaps as is the case most of the time, there is no more beyond loops. -Elhardt