"... The MIDI manufacturer's association, or MMA, is also celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface - a protocol, a specification, a language spoken amongst music-making machines. MIDI was developed in the early 1980s by a group of five synthesizer manufacturers - Sequential Circuits, Roland, Yamaha, Korg, and Kawai - and quietly conferred in 1983. In January of that year, along with MIDI's chief engineer Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits, electronics pioneer Bob Moog demonstrated a MIDI connection between two synthesizers, a happening Moog recorded in a 1986 article as taking place 'without formality or ceremony.' But 30 years is a significant milestone worthy of ceremony for a standard that has endured in its original 1.0 dialect, while other networking languages are updated and replaced with exponential speed."
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