[sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?

[CHoaglin at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/02 4:16:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, chris at smg.org 
writes:


> MIDI definitely isn't musical. It makes roughly the same sounds that your
> modem does when you're signing on. I wouldn't want to listen to that all day
> 

Nice analogy, but not quite <nitpicking mode>What you hear from a modem 
speaker is the analog signal that's been produced by modulating data onto the 
carrier..MIDI is digital the whole way, though it would still probably make a 
noise since playing it through a speaker would be like bursts of square waves.
</nitpicking mode> still not something I'd really want to listen to for long 
periods of time. Naturally, this has nothing to do really with the discussion 
at hand, but whatever...

-Chris
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