Bill Pirkle wrote:

>I too doubt that MIDI will stop people from going to concerts, just as
>some people want to hear Bach's music played on the original instruments
>of the time.  However, much music in movies, and TV are MIDI, where they
>used to be played by studio musicians.

And as someone who's done a number of soundtracks I lament this
development, which is nothing new in the industry.  Basically means a bunch
more out-of-work instrumentalists.  The artistic level suffers, too, let's
not pretend.  MIDI still has a long way to catch up on the Saturday morning
cartoons, to name just one example.  While the old WarnerBrothers cartoons,
Bugs Bunny and the lot, had a 55-piece crack studio orchestra accompanying
the fabulous animation, now you have chirpy little midi noises occuring at
the same time as the computerized animation, and with none of the humor and
timing of the old music.  Ah, for the good ol days.

Dave Runnion