Disklavier

QRS calls their stream "Analog MIDI" as well, sometimes abbreviating it 
"AMI".   A more appropriate term might be "modulated MIDI", because 
these formats generally involve MIDI data bytes modulated into a digital 
stream that can be carried by an audio channel using frequency-shift 
keying or phase-shift keying, similar to how raster data are sent over a 
telephone link via FAX.

"Analog MIDI" is an example of non-technical management coining a 
nonsensical term and then having it stick (e.g. "Wi-Fi").

Mark Fontana


On 03/29/2015 03:17 PM, ROBERT LEBLANC r_leblanc@... [disklavier] wrote:
>
> The term 'analog MIDI' has been around for over ten years however, as 
> Spencer points out, the term is perhaps not an accepted industry term.
>
> While I do not know who first coined the phrase 'analog MIDI', the 
> term appears in the Yamaha Disklavier literature and the Yamaha DCD1 
> CD player (circa Jan 2001) had L/R RCA inputs labelled "Analog MIDI 
> In". The DKC850 similarly has inputs labelled "Analog MIDI In".
>
> Robert
>
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> *From: *"Spencer Chase lists@... [disklavier]" 
> <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> *To: *disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent: *Sunday, March 29, 2015 1:39:58 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [disklavier] Converting PianoDisc to Disklavier
>
> there is no industry accepted term for the type of file on a PianoDisc 
> CD so people make them up as they go along. the data on the CD is MIDI 
> but is encoded in an audio format so some people call it analog. it is 
> actually a WAV (some players can use MP3 files as well if they can 
> decode it properly) file so there is nothing analog about it until it 
> gets out of the decoder. I don't know about the internal workings of 
> the PD system and whether the data ever really exists in analog form. 
> Since the PD is made to be compatible with a variety of audio 
> recording and playback devices such as MP3 players, my guess is that 
> it might actually be converted to analog audio and then decoded into 
> MIDI.
>
> anyway, it would be great if someone came up with a good name for this 
> sort of file? Audio encoded MIDI maybe?
>