the MIDI standard dates from early 1982 orso! most of us probably don't have cars that old!
It's only a format-standard, not a sound-standard. What you can do is create a standard saying 'voice 001 should be a piano always', but that's it! Nowhere there's a description about HOW the piano should sound. Therefore MIDI shouldn't be used for things which should sound the same on different systems.
Then there are the old limits like, based on cramping things in individual bits, the oldskool way.
There were some attempts to create a new standard, but they all failed. Probably the main reason for this is that the current synths/interfaces need to work with that new standard, which they can't. Personally I wouldn't mind ditching MIDI and completely switch to something flexible, over USB orso.
This has been a hot debate in class, when I was studying musictechnology :)
But back to the topic.. ogg/mp3 is peanuts these days, why bother with MIDI ?
It's only a format-standard, not a sound-standard. What you can do is create a standard saying 'voice 001 should be a piano always', but that's it! Nowhere there's a description about HOW the piano should sound. Therefore MIDI shouldn't be used for things which should sound the same on different systems.
Then there are the old limits like, based on cramping things in individual bits, the oldskool way.
There were some attempts to create a new standard, but they all failed. Probably the main reason for this is that the current synths/interfaces need to work with that new standard, which they can't. Personally I wouldn't mind ditching MIDI and completely switch to something flexible, over USB orso.
This has been a hot debate in class, when I was studying musictechnology :)
But back to the topic.. ogg/mp3 is peanuts these days, why bother with MIDI ?