Great MIDI Birthday cake synth art by Dennis Irwin via this article on The Register. See if you can spot the synths. It appears the Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 & Roland JX-3P, the first synths to have MIDI and hooked up for the first time at Winter NAMM 1983 didn't get invited. Or maybe they are passed out in the other room. Regardless, it's a great picture. Dave Smith & Ikutaro Kakehashi received a 2013 Technical GRAMMY for MIDI as posted here. Click through for a pic from the 1983 NAMM floor.
via The Register: "The interface started off just living up to expectations and connecting devices together but later it became an enduring ecosystem. Not only did this network protocol deliver both real-time and non-real-time data transfers, it even notched up a platform-neutral file format.
Moreover, this 31.25kbd 10-bit, 16-channel network is still very much in use today, 30 years after its official 1.0 specification release in August 1983. They’ve been saying it all year and let’s say it again: Happy Birthday MIDI..."
The Register is running a massive feature on MIDI this month. The following links to each article.
Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Getting pop stars wired for 30 years
Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Slave to the rhythm
MIDI daddy Dave Smith: '30 years of version 1.0 shows we got it right'
MIDI was also celebrated at this year's NAMM in January as featured here with a panel discussion including Alan Parsons, Tom Oberheim, Dave Smith, Jordan Rudess, George Duke and Craig Anderton.
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