On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:15:59 +0100, Ian McCall wrote:
>
> On 2017-08-14 21:04:00 +0000, Andreas Kohlbach  said:
>
>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:58:14 +0100, Ian McCall wrote:
>>>
>>> What you're describing is playing via the cheap sound card General
>>> MIDI patch-compatible sound cards, like the Waveblaster (Sounblaster
>>> with a wavetable synth built in) or similar. But MIDI is
>>> sound-independent: it's the score, the , not the
sound itself.
>>
>> No, I just mentioned that also casual users - like me - used MIDI back in
>> the 90s, before MP3 and higher bandwidth (and Napster ;-) kicked in. I
>> say MIDI used by the casual user was quickly abandoned in the very late 90s.
>
> That's fair enough - you would have used wavetable synths built into
> the sound cards in the mid-90s, not "MIDI" as such. MIDI would have
> fed those sound cards, but its the sound cards you're describing. It's
> more true to say that listening to the built-in sound card synths were
> abandoned, than it's true to say MIDI was abandoned, but really we're
> splitting the thinnest of hairs here.

Okay, you're right. May be I was under the impression the SID2MIDI was
mainly thought to be used for playing MIDI one's PC. Like we did in the
90s. :-)
--
Andreas
You know you are a redneck if
you ever cleaned fish in your living room.

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