Copyright 2004 Ken Greenebaum
Incredible
compression
nMIDI can encode a long musical performance as a relatively tiny number of
messages
nMozart’s Eine Klein Nachtmusik in 34kb
nWhen compared to the huge size of PCM audio samples encoding same
performance
nMIDI synthesizers can be arbitrarily high quality
nIE synthesize instruments at high
nSample rates
nQuantization