| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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There's an interesting article in the September issue of "Digital
Audio" about a proposal to include MIDI as a subcode in CD's.
The idea is basically that you have a CD player with audio outs
and a MIDI out, and that the audio and the MIDI are synched.
Most of the article is devoted to explaining what MIDI means and
how you might use this. That part contains nothing very interesting.
I'm sure the question most of you are asking right now is what is the
status of the proposal?
Very little of the article is devoted to answering that unfortunately.
From my reading of the article, it sounds like there are a few
renegade companies that want to do this who are trying to get
Sony and Philips to approve a proposed enhancement to the standard
for this.
As much as I'd like to see it, I can't imagine that if approved,
this would be done on any wide scale. I imagine the return on doing
this would be extremely low. If anything, I think we'll see it done
mostly for special disks: instructional disks, or perhaps there
will be some company that releases a few disks like this a year.
I think the best we can hope for is to see "musician's music" appear
using this technology.
There's always hope.
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| 1616.1 | What do it do? | TOOK::DDS_SEC | Give me Goodrich | Thu Aug 11 1988 13:17 | 7 |
| 1616.2 | Good question | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Yo! | Thu Aug 11 1988 13:24 | 15 |
Well, there are folks around who buy sequences of tunes for various
reasons. Some folks like to "diddle" with them (y'know change the
sounds are a bit or whatever). In fact, there was a Commusic tape
submission that was done that way.
You mentioned another purpose.
Another use is that you can create "music-minus-one" type things
to learn the tune.
No single application is all that revolutionary. It's not the greatest
thing since sliced bread and as I mention, I can't imagine there being
much payback for this. But it is an intriguing idea.
db
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| 1616.3 | PNO::HEISER | bash-n-the code | Fri Jul 07 1989 17:23 | 15 | |
Resurrecting an old note...
If you read any of the Atari ST publications, you'll think of an
application for MIDI subcode on CD. Does the Hotz Keyboard sound
familiar? It is a creation from Jimmy Hotz (of music producing
fame) that will pretty much enable a musically illiterate person
to play along with the best of them.
One of the ways it does this is through the MIDI subcodes on CD.
It is an expensive toy as well as a music teaching aid.
It is also being heavily backed ($$$$) by Atari and Mick Fleetwood.
Release date is around Christmas.
Mike
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