pre-emptive strike and midi!

Got my digest, I'll correct my errors.

1) The 13/31 (7:9) generator is actually 11/31. I'll
correct Pauls boo-boo before he corrects mine.

2) My lattice for (what I think is) Micheal Harrisons
septimal minor scale

> 14/9--- 7/6--- 7/4
> | | | 15/8
> | | | /
> | | | /
> 4/3--- 1/1--- 3/2---9/8

is properly written

> 14/9--- 7/6--- 7/4
> | | 15/8
> | | /
> | | /
> 4/3--- 1/1--- 3/2---9/8

which is the way I originally had it. I changed it to make
the triads visible, but that made a hash of things.

3) Re : MIDI

I believe the improvement was called ZIPI, which (like the
midi tuning specification) suffered a quiet death when
faced with the music instrument manufacturers. Computer
Music Journal had pretty good articles about both of those
which gave me hope for a 'next big thing' a 'long time
ago'.

Yamaha also has a spec for an improved midi, it may be
an extension to xg which not only adds chanels etc but
since it is designed for 1394 firewire (IIRC), is fast
enough to also embed audio (whether for sample transfer
or actual playback I can't remember).

MIDI was slow even when it came out. They never would
have accepted a cost adder of more than $1 for
everything including UART, connecters, etc... This
is part of why the next standard will be based on
firewire or usb or one other of the hi-speed serial
interconnect standards being touted for the past few
years. It has to cost NOTHIN' for the manufacturers to
add it.

Bob Valentine