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If you want to use MIDI with either pre-MIDI analog synths or with modular Euro rack analog synth systems, you need to convert digital MIDI signals into analog voltages. Fortunately, there are lots of options. We've selected the top 5 MIDI to CV convertors, but there are tons of choices. The first three are Eur...
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By Daderot (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The golden age of mechanical music machines really came in the late 19th century and early 20th century with player pianos and orchestrions. A player piano is defined as any actual acoustic piano that is played by a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music.
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The MIDI specification first saw the light of day at the 1981 AES, when Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits presented a paper on the "Universal Synthesizer Interface." It was co-developed with other companies (an effort driven principally by Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi, a true visionary of this industry), and made its prime time debut at the 1983 Los ...
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