Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!harvard!think!ada-uts!hedger From: hedger@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music.synth Subject: Re: 'State of the art' questions Message-ID: <30100004@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ada-uts.30100004 Posted: Tue Aug 13 10:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 02:36:29 EDT References: <772@cadovax.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:cadovax:-77200:ada-uts:30100004:000:984 Nf-From: ada-uts!hedger Aug 13 10:07:00 1985 this is to respond to part three of your question (what i saw of it): yes you can buy just a midi keyboard controller and conversly, slave synthesizer modules. Roland is now marketing 2 such conrollers and the slave modules to go with them. Also Korg and Oberheim both sell expander modules with no keyboard to be used via midi. Regarding the purpose of midi....midi basically came into existenceas a way to execute musicfrom the keyboard on one instrument using the synth innards on another...it seems that after the standard was stabilized and some of the bugs were worked out that people realized: a) that we can use systems designed around 1 or 2 keyboard controllers and b) that as the industry realizes the potential of midi there will be more attention paid to working out the bugs and to expanding the use of the standard in ways never before considered...... I hope I've helped to answer your question. **************************** * *KEITH HEDGER - INTERMETRICS