20 years ago plenty of people who should have known better complained about how crappy 'MIDI music' sounded. I liked to point out that MIDI doesn't make any sounds. It's a communications protocol. A Casio is not a Moog. Hollywood managed to work miracles with MIDI.
Similarly, if you find modern music 'glib and lifeless', that's not the fault of the instruments. For some reason the audience hasn't chosen to support something better. And let's just say that a lot of producers like to loop the same sample endlessly, because .... (they can't play? they lzy bches?)
or it's the sound they want - an exactly repeating groove was what James Brown was trying to achieve with a band, and various disco producers with tape loops, before there were sampled loops.
Maybe so. But I can tell yesterday whether I'm listening to Jimmy's band or a pasted-together wannabe track. All respect but ain't no Bootsy Button on the 303.
I don't see what the rise of popularity with electronic music has anything to do with the specific communication protocol used.
I don't think it was at all MIDI's fault. It was going to happen with or without it. Unless you just of consider MIDI a touchstone of the general computerization of the industry.
It already was happening without it. Before MIDI, there was CV.
Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
by JasonFruit on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:52PM
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And drums have never recovered.
Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
by mwcampbell on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:01PM
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What do you mean? Are there not still plenty of rock bands with real drummers?
If you listen to musicians who were big in the 1970s (say David Bowie or Billy Joel or CSNY) it seemed liked they banned guitars and drums and other real instruments and that everything was made with some kind of "music word processor" and pop music became glib and lifeless.