Any Quote by Charles Petzold

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which…

— Charles Petzold

Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up, change notes…

— Tim Hecker

Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any…

— Charles Petzold

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see…

— Jon Hopkins

Midi is my hobby.

— J. J. Johnson

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one…

— Charles Petzold

We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear…

— Synyster Gates

The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally…

— Washed Out

I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's…

— Quincy Jones

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it…

— Nadia Ali

Some composers end up writing for the guitar as they would write piano music or, more often, harp music. It isn't the same.

— Julian Bream

Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody…

— Nicolas Godin