Posted by aniramca on 03/26/07 04:02

On Mar 25, 10:19 pm, Laurence Payne <lpayne1NOSPAM@dslDOTpipexDOTcom>
wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2007 19:50:22 -0700, "WB2" <WB_1B...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >As far as voice capability goes, I understand that there are software
> >now where the vocal part can be stored in a .wav file, instruments in
> >the .mid file, and they're synchronized when the song is played.
>
> Amazing! Where might one obtain such a marvel?

Thanks for the information and discussion that I got from these
newsgroups, as well as the other group that I posted
(comp.music.midi). It helps me to understand about the details
information on how midi works, as well as information about short wave
radio, cell phones, walkie-talkie, etc from Dale, WB2 and Mr. Wong
from the comp.music.midi newsgroup forum, and others). I appreciate it
very much.

No, I am not frustrated with the fact that there is not much midi
stuff available. Perhaps, I am a savvy or thrifty guy... and I hate to
see why there are so much waste in computer files, because memory and
speed are becoming too cheap... therefore those larger mp3, WMA and
wav files. I am trying to find out if inventions are driven by
necessities, or currently being focused into narrow minded sectors in
which big business directs and can reap for the profits. The danger of
the second approach is that inventions will be restricted and
sometimes misguided by the current trends or settings by those who
have the vested interests to make money. I understand that genuine
inventors will not be deterred from making all of these wonderful
inventions. I remember one of my old teachers who said that
inventions are connected with the time, evolution and maturity of
human mind and its understanding of the technology. He said if James
Watt did not invent the steam engine until now, then someone else
would.

What I am trying to emphasize in my queries was whether we are
thinking "inside" or "outside" the box, given the huge interests of
big companies to make profit these days (or what I feel is that they
are trying to make you a subscriber of everything...... from cell
phones, cable TV, food, to even medicines). I still wonder, despite
of the 30 years or more of the midi invention, that they managed to
package the sound of an instrument (such as piano or other
instruments) into those tiny storage file. Touche for their fine
inventions! Are there inventors who pursue the same thought about
developing the midi to record the human voice (as I understood from
the reply of this forum, that there are people who work on it)? How
much resources that these people has (as they may not be those who are
in the mainstream such as working on the mp3, WMA, etc development).
Perhaps my analogy sometimes is quite off, but perhaps this is similar
to the VHS vs betamax. Was betamax better and smaller than VHS, but
they still lost the recognition? It is perhaps the same story as blue
ray vs HD-DVD, Windows vs. apple OS, DVD+R vs DVD-R ?

Are there inventors who concentrate to make a better walkie-talkie,
radio or TV with far longer coverage (technically without repeaters)?
Or are these people now are channeled by big business to work on
research to make better cell phones and their scrambling protection
capabilities instead, so that people have to subscribe and become a
dependant to the new technology? Of course, the big business can
always say that there is no free rides and research is expensive and
need resources, and therefore need a steady income as a milking cow
afterwards.

Again, I do appreciate the responses that I received so far. It has
been a good education for a regular, non-inventor type working people
like myself (and who, like everybody else nowadays has to pay the
increasing number of "subscriptions" of everything nowadays). I have
to understand, though, that subscriptions mean a steady income
generation for the big business (so that they can project or even set
up target for their profits every year ahead of time and report to
their stakeholders).

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