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I figure there's at least one person here who would appreciate this.
Step back, to approximately 1990....
I asked and begged and pleaded for an AdLib music card. I got it. It had
this weird editing format called "Piano Roll" I couldn't understand how
in the heck it related to a piano, and why they called a white screen
with black rectangles a roll.
Step forward to May of 2009....
I'm watching How It's Made, specifically the segment on how how player
piano rolls are made. Looking at the roll, it suddenly clicks. It looks
EXACTLY like the piano roll interface used in most music editing
applications. Literally, the representation had been around since player
pianos have been around. Epiphanies are so fun...
--
~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> I'm watching How It's Made, specifically the segment on how how player
> piano rolls are made. Looking at the roll, it suddenly clicks. It looks
> EXACTLY like the piano roll interface used in most music editing
> applications. Literally, the representation had been around since player
> pianos have been around. Epiphanies are so fun...
Hehe. Nice. ;-)
I once saw a fairground organ that was controlled by - well not a *roll*
exactly, but rather a series of metal sheets, hinged together like the
old tractor-feed paper. Each sheet had a series of holes punched in it.
Since an organ is a pnumatic instrument anyway, you just gotta line the
holes up with the pipes. Sounded pretty nice...
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I once heard a modern performance of "Rhapsody in Blue" where the orchestra
played along with a piano roll Gershwin had made decades earlier. Pretty
cool.
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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> I'm watching How It's Made, specifically the segment on how how player
> piano rolls are made. Looking at the roll, it suddenly clicks. It looks
> EXACTLY like the piano roll interface used in most music editing
> applications. Literally, the representation had been around since player
> pianos have been around. Epiphanies are so fun...
MIDI format is basically a piano roll. :)
--
a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9
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nemesis wrote:
> MIDI format is basically a piano roll. :)
With multiple channels, pitch bend, polyphonic aftertouch, program
change messages, realtime sound parameter adjustments, transport control
messages, timing signals, arbitrary data exchange, digital audio
transit, patch dumps... um, no, not really. :-P
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> MIDI format is basically a piano roll. :)
>
> With multiple channels, pitch bend, polyphonic aftertouch, program
> change messages, realtime sound parameter adjustments, transport control
> messages, timing signals, arbitrary data exchange, digital audio
> transit, patch dumps... um, no, not really. :-P
Um, yes, really. You could add any/all of those features to a piano
roll. Just involves a larger roll.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> MIDI format is basically a piano roll. :)
>
> With multiple channels, pitch bend, polyphonic aftertouch, program
> change messages, realtime sound parameter adjustments, transport control
> messages, timing signals, arbitrary data exchange, digital audio
> transit, patch dumps... um, no, not really. :-P
How about "Midi is a superset of a piano roll"
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~Mike
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> How about "Midi is a superset of a piano roll"
>
I somehow think the standards committee might regard that as just a tiny bit
oversimplified. But the concept is very close. The piano roll is just a
paradigm to visualize the time, value and duration of MIDI events. Just as
useful is the traditional musical notation paradigm although neither can
effectively represent all types of data which might be found in the MIDI
data stream. Things like patch parameters and polyphonic aftertouch not to
mention many others.
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