On 09/30/2012 02:22 AM, david wrote:

> I don't know the history of development of the MIDI standard, but I
> think the people behind it didn't give a hoot about notation. MIDI has
> always had the feel (to me) that it was designed by engineers and
> programmers, not musicians.

It was basically designed to let synthesizers talk to each other, and 
then everything sort of developed from there.

As near as I can figure after a brief bit of research, the first 
computer notation software came into being about five years later.

Sequencers go all the way back to the '50s, surprisingly enough. 
Obviously they weren't using MIDI back then.

Uh, no point to my rambling, I don't guess.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

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