Subj : Re: New SID to MIDI conversion tool To : Ian McCall From : Andreas Kohlbach Date : Tue Aug 15 2017 16:52:41 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. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .