FOR most of the thousands of years that humans have been listening to music, the only way to hear it was to be there when it was played. The earliest musical notation would take millennia to emerge, ...

In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any other. But as the wonderfully named [Knob Monster] will tell you, when the ...

Prior to the early 80s, electronic musical instruments had no real way to communicate with each other. Some companies, such as Roland and Oberheim, developed proprietary languages, but these worked ...