![]() ![]() It doesn’t rewrite musical terminology, it adopts it and extends what can be done with it. Importantly, the interface or ‘language’ of the application is that of traditional music notation and concepts. It helps students understand the form of the songs they play and to provide backing music for enjoying and learning new songs. This delivered on its promise of providing tailored accompaniment for songs. The first, mass-adoption innovation from MIDI was the song-based accompaniment application – PG Music’s “ Band-In-A-Box” available on PCs and Macs. IncredibleTrumpet The innovator – Band-In-A-Box For truly ‘Smart Music’ what we need is to go further, more intimately marrying technology with music production. ![]() We shouldn’t blame MIDI for what we have, and haven’t, done with it over the last 3 decades. Enablement versus Truly Smart Music Creation Unfortunately, too many substandard performances have been codified and rendered with MIDI, leading to bad experiences and a bad reputation for the technology. MIDI doesn’t have to mean sub-standard music – it can, if used with care, mean superb musicianship and great music production. Great performances have been captured using MIDI recording. Complete orchestral scores have been codified and rendered with MIDI. That’s not just a new type of instrument, it is a way of codifying the playing of any and all instruments. It automates the playing of the instruments by encoding and reproducing the act of playing The MIDI platform has been around for 30 years or more and deserves the name ‘Smart’. Enter – Musical Instrument Digital Interface ( MIDI) That’s not smart really, it is just a different type of instrument. Drum Machines and Synthesizers are really new musical instruments lending themselves to new musical sounds and therefore new genres of music. ‘ Smart Music Creation‘ could perhaps be considered to be where computerized devices help with the creation of music – the synthesizer, the drum machine, and MIDI generally. With ‘music’, the term ‘ digital‘ has been used for the distribution of consumer music in a ‘ digital form‘ – Audio-CD, mini-discs, DAT and later the revolution of online distribution through the iTunes Music Store. Smart often means that technology has been added to something that previously had not had it. ![]()
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