Capable Quote by Charles Petzold

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

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

— Oscar Peterson

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

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your…

— John Cage

There are only so many instruments you can layer on top of each other that aren't perfectly electronically programmed. "Long Vermont Roads" just cannot…

— Stephin Merritt

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with…

— Robert Moog

Composers combine notes, that's all.

— Igor Stravinsky

Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.

— Liv Bruce

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

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

The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

— Herbie Hancock

To me, I don't see any difference between a synthesizer and an acoustic instrument. It's what's done on it that counts.

— Allan Holdsworth