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From: hedger@ada-uts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 'State of the art' questions
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:07:00 EDT
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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.

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*KEITH HEDGER - INTERMETRICS