MIDI interface

Shiru Otaku & Aleksey Tarasow about: Re: MIDI interface

SO> I was not a participant in the conversation, but I will tell you my humble opinion. Why is it
SO> needed? :) You can make a midi player on the Spectrum (by creating a fairly
SO> complex circuit for connecting a midi device), but a _decent_
SO> sequencer is not.

I see, there are a bunch of you here, very bright prospects for zhelezyachnikov
are you suggesting!?
If all the zhelezyachnikov thought similarly, then the 48th with a cassette drive
would have been perfect.
Well, if you need something, then you’re off to the afftopic!!!

But only if, in your opinion, this is impractical, then it’s a personal matter!
But any even small piece of iron has its place to be, and most importantly
to be useful!
Let everyone collect what in his opinion will be useful, and if he thinks so
initially, then there WILL be some benefit from it!

In short, it’s in vain that you are suppressing the initiative...

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25 Dec 03 02:49, Shiru Otaku -> Aleksey Tarasow:

SO> I was not a participant in the conversation, but I will tell you my humble opinion. Why is it
SO> needed? :) You can make a midi player on the Spectrum (by creating a fairly
SO> complex circuit for connecting a midi device),

Where did you find “a fairly complex circuit”. According to the author, the scheme is elementary. And
moreover, it is _not_tied_ to Speccy, it can simply be used
together with it.

SO> but a _decent_ sequencer is not. Speccy is not suitable for this,
SO> at all. It’s trivial that even the screen resolution is not enough... Even in
SO> fairly old midi sequencers, it is simply impossible to work in offtopic settings lower than 800x600
SO> - all the necessary information does not fit on the screen
SO>. Its quantity can be reduced (they shove the interface
SO> of hardware sequencers into small LCD screens), but the convenience of
SO> will _significantly_ drop, to the point of complete pointlessness in using this
SO> thing. But you also need to write a sequencer program. Who will
SO> do this?

Everything you wrote is interesting, but it doesn’t bother me much. I'm interested
in the ability to play MIDI files - this is the main thing, the rest is secondary.

SO> But there is also such a computer among the people - Atari ST,
SO> which has a built-in standard midi interface, it already hasThere are
SO> decent ready-made midi sequencers. And now it costs a penny.

Well, I have an Atari + tape recorder, and what should I do with it? I’ve never
connected it (one friend got rid of it so as not to throw it away), and the cassettes have long been
worn out to the music.

SO> Those musicians who are very limited in funds (so much so that
SO> 486 offtopic are not able to buy;), have been using it for a long time and successfully.

I’m not a musician, but I don’t have 486. So why should I shoot myself now?

All ideas and considerations should be expressed not to me and not here, but to the author for the benefit of the doubt. And in the 19th issue of Paragraph, read his answer (if the author deems it necessary to answer personally).

With respect, Alexey.

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26 Dec 03 at 00:32, Aleksey Tarasow -=> Shiru Otaku regarding :

AT> Everything you wrote is interesting, but it doesn’t bother me much. I'm interested
AT> the ability to play MIDI files - this is the main thing, the rest is secondary.

The easy way. In principle, you can write a quite good music converter and generally play with sampled instruments. ))) Not a Yamaha XG of course...
))) But do we still play midi files? )))

AT> Well, I have an Atari + tape recorder, and what should I do with it? So I never
AT> connected it (one friend took it off so as not to throw it away), and
AT> cassettes were long ago worn out by music.

ST? XL? How much money do you want? )

Bye Aleksey! /Stanley/
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