fantasia on a MIDI theme

52 by D Meyer After God had created man, He rested. After man had created the (analogue) synthesizer, he also rested. But only for a little while, because within a very short time digital techniques had shown a different way, enabling sounds, rhythms, and melodies to be stored in memories. And man realized that he, unlike God, had not created perfection. The new techniques made the addition of, for instance, digital-to-analogue converters, digitizers, and other peripheral units necessary, so that within a relatively short time the originally simple synthesizer had grown into a complex array of equipment through man"s attemps at idealizing it. The magic word was preset. And soon the win- dows of music shops became tangible evidence of a Japanese invasion of (relatively) inexpensive digital synthesizers. And everybody sensed that music had taken a new lover: the microprocessor. To make that union a happy one, man hit upon a brilliant idea that would make it possible for communicatio...