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Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced by jdietrich on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:15PM (#18947954)
In fairness, Roland founded the MMA and wrote most of the MIDI spec. The odds are fairly good that Roland did invent SysEx.
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Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced by jeffrom on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:57PM (#18948207)
I thought Dave Smith was primarily responsible? Just to put another notch in Silicon Valley’s belt, I guess.
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Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced by jdietrich on Saturday January 19, 2019 @01:10PM (#18948277)
Dave Smith was the first to get on board with the project and made substantial contributions to the design of MIDI, but it was Ikutaro Kakehashi who started the whole endeavour. MIDI was heavily influenced by DCB, a proprietary interface developed by Roland in 1981.
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