MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...

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It would have been almost unheard of not so long ago, but some producers are now choosing not to bother with a MIDI keyboard, instead using a pad-based device to input all of their MIDI data. Does ...