Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Steve,

thanks for your message. I can assure you there's no arrogance or  
sarcasm in my messages, I'm not that type. If you could feel something  
alike, then it's only due my poor knowledge of Shakespeare tongue, I'm  
not able to use well some nuances and finesses.

In any case I like your messages and attitude.

Daniel Forro
another dinosaur liking prehistoric gear (I had even a Museum of  
Electronic Instruments, the only of its kind in my former country)


On 22 Aug, 2013, at 11:58 PM, steve_the_composer wrote:

> Footnotes:
> (1) I googled Yamaha LAN and found some forum stuff with people  
> having issues with it.
> (2) About 3 or 4 years ago, I ran a test of midi-over-internet where  
> I payed a softsynth of a chat buddy in NL (IIRC). He echoed the midi  
> data back to me which I recorded and determined the round trip  
> latency. I think it was about 600ms.
> (3) What prompted the experiment (where's the Youtube clip?) were  
> some very successful tests (no noticeable latency) I had done  
> controlling gear hooked up to one computer from a controller hooked  
> up to another computer across the room but via a router. (Of course,  
> I was using 8-bit midi.)
>
> So, thanks for the offer to forget midi, but I am a dinosaur myself  
> and I like dinosaur gear.
>
> Oh, yeah, even as a dinosaur, I stick by my claim of looking towards  
> future possibilities. Always did; always will. I did that when I was  
> in my teens, too--when I envisioned controlling a synth (Moog  
> modular) with a computer. It was unheard of back then. In fact, one  
> of my professors told me, "What a waste of a computer!" Needless to  
> say, I should have told him "Bullshit," and tried to find a  
> professor or a program that had the ability to envision future  
> possibilities.
>
> Again, I try my best to help people with issues they have. Those  
> efforts are future-solution oriented. I envision possibilities. But  
> I do so mindful of the past.
>
> I am not sure who said, "the past informs the present to ideally  
> improve the future," but I think there is merit in that approach-- 
> whether it be on a small-scale, near-term problem-solution or a  
> large-scale, long-term one.
>
> I see no problem with integrating the old with the new with an eye  
> towards the future.
>
> Steve
>
> PS: When I first read and responded to your reply to my comment  
> about the future, I did not see any arrogance, agism, or sarcasm  
> whatsoever. I usually don't pick up on stuff like that even when it  
> is there. In fact, it didn't even occur to me you might be doing  
> that until sometime after I had innocently started penning the  
> footnotes by way of simple clarification. However, in retrospect,  
> your tone seems clear--everything you wrote was a reply to my  
> comment that "I try to look at future possibilities."
>
> It seems that your lead in, "Then maybe better forget about MIDI  
> after all," was a retort, a challenge.
>
> Of course, it is hard to tell attitude in printed text messages  
> posted on a forum. So, if you weren't being sarcastic and arrogant,  
> I happily withdraw the suggestion that it might have been.
>
> steve_the_visionary_dinosaur  ;)
>