Dave Smith & Roger Linn Interview

This video, via DJ Tech Tool’s Ean Golden, captures a recent interview with electronic music pioneers Dave Smith (the Prophet V, MIDI) and Roger Linn (the LinnDrum, the MPC).

The interview focuses on the key technologies that Linn & Smith have been involved with and their uses for making electronic music.

30 Years Of The MIDI Standard

The BBC has published an interesting retrospective on the history of MIDI, celebrating 30 years of MIDI.

The article quotes MIDI creator Dave Smith on the origin of MIDI:

“You could play one keyboard with your right hand and another keyboard with your left hand,” says Dave Smith, a synthesiser manufacturer from California who was working on the issue back then. ”But [musicians] couldn’t play more than one at the same time because there was no way of electrically interconnecting them,” he remembers.

“Computers were fast enough to be able to sequence notes, control the number of keyboards and drum machines at the same time? it kind of opened up a whole new industry.”

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Chromeo Studio Tour

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This video captures a studio tour with Canadian duo Chromeo (Patrick Gemayel and David Macklovitch). They talk some pretty serious geek, show off their great collection of vintage and recent gear and demonstrate how they use it in their work.

via reader Stephen Langer