On 4 Jul 2011, at 23:06, Andrew Sorensen wrote:
> An early version of Impromptu had a *midi* button along its button bar. When you pressed the *midi* button and started playing on an attached midi keyboard the relevant midi data (pitch and relative timing information) was written directly into the text buffer at the current cursor position as valid s-expressions. You could then use that data for whatever structural purposes you required (chords, melodies etc.). I didn't end up using it much so I got rid of it at some point but you can still see the midi button in a picture of the Impromptu IDE in my 2005 paper.
Wow, cool. Out of interest why don't you think you ended up using it? Was it too cumbersome? Did it not fit into your performance workflow at the time? Do you see yourself ever using such a mechanism again?
Sam
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