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In message <qrt7jc$s53$1@news.albasani.net>, "Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)" 
<briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>The software I was thinking of was Reaper, by the way. a program which 
>with its accessible plug in has more features than enough, it was 
>certainly far too much for my brain to cope with and if you a serious 
>music maker, then yes, it might be good, buying all the expensive audio 
>interfaces etc to go with it, but otherwise, if a destructive editor is

I think most serious electronic instruments have MIDI anyway. You'd need 
some sort of USB-to-MIDI interface, since most PCs now don't have a D15 
joystick interface, but those are cheap enough.

>all you need goldwave etc, and to probably a better extent audacity, 
>but neither do midi as well.
> Brian
>
My friend is already a GoldWave user, but that's for actual recordings; 
as you say, they don't do MIDI. MIDI is to .wav or .mp3 or whatever as 
sheet music is to a record/tape/CD: it instructs _how_ to perform the 
music. With a MIDI editor, you can change individual notes - pitch, 
duration, or instrument - which you couldn't do with GoldWave etcetera. 
Especially if that note is part of a chord where you want to change some 
but not all of the notes.
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>"Brian Gaff (Sofa)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Yes I remember a Yamaha Piano many moons ago being played by a connection
>> to some computer at a local winery.
>> I guess not being that musical, I mainly came across it from the ready
>> made files that could be used to make keyboards and computers play
>> convincing music.
>> Back in the 80s, a computer called the Sam Coupe had extensive Midi
>> editing software on it, but I'd imaging nowadays the software must be
>> pretty amazing.
>> What is that audio editor that also seems to support midi called. I tried
>> to get to grips with into for multi track recording a while back as it was
>> accessible but it was just far too complex for my brain cells and had
>> loads of features, like midi which I'd never ever need.
>> I'm useless at remembering abstract names, especially when to keep it
>> would have cost me money.
>> Brian
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>> "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in message
>> news:T+XEYy$+$u1dFwn7@255soft.uk...
>>> In message <qr6n0l$aeu$1@news.albasani.net>, "Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)"
>>> <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>>>Not used midi since the 8 bit days, sorry.
>>>> Is it still a thing, then?
>>>
>>> Very much so, at least among professional keyboard musicians. It also has
>>> a quirky side-connection in the fairground organ world; if such an
>>> instrument is modified to work under a MIDI file, it gives it a much
>>> wider repertoire than can be carried/made from the perforated cardboard
>>> stacks they traditionally run on; I've seen a couple modified so that
>>> they can run from either.
>>>>
>>>>Brian
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>>>>"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in message
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>>>>> Does anyone have and use any MIDI software that they find is
>>>>> speech-friendly and/or Braille-friendly? I'm thinking of MIDI editors,
>>>>> keyboard drivers, and so on.
>>>
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>>> Three- (or four-) way referendum, if we _have_ to have another one -
>>> ***with second choices taken into account***
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