Happy Birthday MIDI

The Register is carrying an excellent story today about the birth of MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface - and makes for great reading from both an engineering and a musical standpoint.

Speaking as someone who has only just started using MIDI in hardware having only ever used software/all-in-one hardware, this has also demystified certain things for me!

Original Article here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/midi_spec_1_is_30_happy_birthday_musical_instrument_digital_interface/