Midi technology

Birth of MIDI

Main article: MIDI.
In 1980, a group of musicians and producers agreed to standardize an interfacethrough which various instruments could communicate between themselves and thehost computer. The standard called MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). In August1983, the MIDI 1.0 specification was finalized.
The advent of MIDI technology enabled by the simple act of pressing a key, controlwheel, moving a foot or give an order on a micro computer could enable every device in the study remotely and synchronously, each device responding according to conditionspredetermined by the composer. instruments.
Miller Puckette developed software for processing signal graph 4X called Max, later to be incorporated into Macintosh (Dave Zicarelli extended it to Opcode) 13 for MIDIcontrol in real time, making algorithmic composition was available to any composer who have a minimum knowledge of computer programming.