Published on Feb 4, 2013 FutureMusicMagazine·232 videos
"At NAMM 2013, Future Music captured MIDI creators and innovators Alan Parsons, Tom Oberheim, Dave Smith, Jordan Rudess, George Duke and Craig Anderton discussing the past, present and future of MIDI."
Monday, February 04, 2013
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Thank you for making this available to the rest of us who don't get to go to NAMM.
ReplyDeleteI miss NAMM. Maybe I'll get back into the industry ....
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are some things happening in the real world that the panel seemed not to have noticed.
I wonder if there is not a little echo chamber effect adding blinkers to the vision. Except perhaps for Jordan Rudess, who is doing some very interesting touch surface things with the iPad.
It was the last audience question that clarified that observation for me. About adding instrumentalist controlled video - live, improvised, video effects. Also to some extent Duke's earlier plea for live peer to peer MIDI interactions. The panel was not particularly in touch, or apparently interested, in going beyond the SOA despite the title of the talks.
For instance: our 1990 Lone Wolf MIDITap was expressly designed for multiple performer peer to peer MIDI performance, and was successfully used as such in several high profile concerts in the early 90's. Yet the panel all subscribed to the limited vision of MIDI as only useful for master-slave single conduit applicability. Even Dave Smith did. The MMA - and Craig Anderton - were certainly aware of our work there at the time.
My second point, about video: there are very interesting MIDI controlled VJ products out there, such as ZUMA, that are accessible to performers and improvisation. A contact-free instrument I have some involvement with - Light Dancer - incorporates ZUMA as part of the performance club venue experience, with some interesting effects. I myself have also done some much less publicized work with MIDI - Video performance control, albeit limited to Winamp on Windows XP (pre-AOL version) for which I wrote MIDI plugins and a set of image control modules. You see some images captured from that in my FB Eros image gallery.
I was also surprised none of them, Tom included, knew anything much about OSC. It may not catch on in synthesizers, but it is certainly far more expressive and useable than MIDI for connecting sophisticated remote UIs to their host brains. I see it growing rapidly in the iPad world (search for OSC on App Store), and have found it easy to write code to it in both Lua and C. For enhanced DAW control, for example: if you have spent any time down in the way MIDI has been used for external control surfaces you'd know what a real shoe-horned mess that is. I know - I pnce had to write a parser for a DAW surface controller that could cope with 13 different DAWs at the time and still be able to adapt to new ones without firmware updates.