Puredata. Misc. Muzak. Sonos. Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. Freesound. Epitonic.com. | SilenceRadio.org | Fluxus. Music. Waveform. Microbiorecords.net | microbio netlabel | biodata net label | su. Mode zero. Stasisfield.com. Synth Programming. Core Sound. Brian's radio blog]] Totally fuzzy. Fm.web.rla. Linux MIDI. In 1981, an audio engineer named Dave Smith designed a universal interface for connecting synthesizers together. He presented his basic design at the Audio Engineering Society meeting that year, and in 1982, the Roland corporation expanded the design specification.
Later that year Smith's company, Sequential Circuits, produced the Prophet-600, the first MIDI-capable synthesizer. The first public presentation of a working MIDI connection took place in 1983 at the winter NAMM (National Association of Music Merchandisers) show. A Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 was connected to a Roland Jupiter 6 by each synth's MIDI interface. Connecting synthesizers together certainly was not a new idea, but this means of doing so was new and far more effective than earlier solutions. In the summer of the same year, Yamaha introduced the DX7 FM synthesizer, with MIDI hardware as a standard component. MIDI also was adopted quickly for use with the newly popular personal computer. OpenJay.org. Mstation.org. Oneshot Samples. Far Side Music. Pour les musiciens et les fous de musique.