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| - | ====== MIDI ====== | ||
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| - | A long time ago, analogue synthesizers got invented, and they were probably mostly intended as single instruments, much like a piano or organ. Like a player-piano, people eventually invented ways to automate synthesizers so that they a user could sequence a set of notes into the synthesizer and have it play it back to them. While that synthesizer played one part, the user would go to a second synth and play the accompaniment. Artists being what they are, two synths were hardly enough, and performers quickly started one-person bands that consisted excluisvely of synthesizers. | ||
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| - | There were two serious issues: the synthesizers had to keep time, so internal clocks were installed. But people found that these clocks had a tendency to drift out of sync with one another, so that even if you managed to start all of your synths at the right foot-tap, by the end of a six minute song, any automated sequence would be out of sync with any other given sequence. | ||
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| - | The other problem was that there were purely physical logistical problems with one person trying to play and trigger eight different synths to do different parts over the course of a song. It just wasn't practical. | ||
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