"So, you can send control information from the Atari to the Synths. And that feature has attracted some pretty impressive software from Steinberg Research. It turns the ST into music's equivalent of a word processor."
BBC explains and demonstrates MIDI and music creation with home computers in 1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aADkqmvy44o
#vintagecomputing #midi #synthesizer
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