> Korg noted that the use of jack plugs to transmit the required signals would cause noise in the system.
No more detail on this, but it was huge for MIDI not to end up "becoming a nightmare of endless fine-tuning better suited to electronics engineers than musicians" like CV/gate was.
Mieda-san from Korg responds on behalf of the Japanese companies to the meetings at the 1981 Gakki Fair with Sequential and Oberheim and confirms the discussion that were they had at the Gakki Fair.
• 19.2kbps is too slow
• ¼” Jacks will have ground loop problems
• There is no concept of synchronization, clock or the ability to start and stop sequences
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Ground loops are the bane of musician's lives and sometimes the mitigation is the end of their lives
No more detail on this, but it was huge for MIDI not to end up "becoming a nightmare of endless fine-tuning better suited to electronics engineers than musicians" like CV/gate was.
https://midi.org/midi-history-chapter-6-midi-begins-1981-198... spells it out in more detail:
Mieda-san from Korg responds on behalf of the Japanese companies to the meetings at the 1981 Gakki Fair with Sequential and Oberheim and confirms the discussion that were they had at the Gakki Fair.
• 19.2kbps is too slow
• ¼” Jacks will have ground loop problems
• There is no concept of synchronization, clock or the ability to start and stop sequences
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Ground loops are the bane of musician's lives and sometimes the mitigation is the end of their lives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_lift#Safety