{"id":130686,"date":"2022-07-04T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=130686"},"modified":"2022-07-04T20:31:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:31:58","slug":"this-is-what-state-of-the-art-midi-software-looked-like-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2022\/07\/04\/this-is-what-state-of-the-art-midi-software-looked-like-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What State Of The Art MIDI Software Looked Like In 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1986: MIDI and the MUSICAL MICROS | Micro Live | Retro Tech | BBC Archive\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aADkqmvy44o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This 1986 segment of <strong>BBC&#8217;s Micro Live<\/strong> showcases the then state-of-the-art in MIDI software.<\/p>\n<p>At the higher end of the market, Tony Hastings of <strong>Steinberg Research<\/strong> demonstrates <strong>Pro24<\/strong> for the <strong>Atari ST<\/strong>, while Lesley Judd shows some of the cheaper alternatives available for humble 8-bit systems. The <strong>Commodore 64<\/strong> has a <strong>Music Expansion System<\/strong>, while even the <strong>Spectrum<\/strong> can be used as the heart of a inexpensive music production system, with the Casio CZ101 synth and Cheetah&#8217;s MIDI Interface and MK5 keyboard. Finally, there is the <strong>Music 5000 Synthesise<\/strong>r box for the <strong>BBC Micro.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This segment, originally broadcast 19 December, 1986, comes from the BBC Archive.<\/p>\n<p>If you worked with any of these systems back in the day, leave a comment and share your experience!<\/p>\n<p>via vargasz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1986 segment of BBC&#8217;s Micro Live showcases the then state-of-the-art in MIDI software.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2022\/07\/04\/this-is-what-state-of-the-art-midi-software-looked-like-in-1986\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Is What State Of The Art MIDI Software Looked Like In 1986<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[2146,12724,271],"class_list":["post-130686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-hardware","category-computer-music","tag-atari","tag-atari-st","tag-history-of-electronic-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/midi-1986-synthesizer-e1656984432942.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130712,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130686\/revisions\/130712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}