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If I remember correctly - midi was a really mixed bag of tricks even when the DX7 & KX88 were introduced. Obviously most of the protocol was bashed out but still some manufacturers read their own version of MIDI.

I had a studio right in the middle of this time (1984 - 1990) and slowly things got midied - but I remember being frustrated by a lack of standard between Yamaha, Roland and Korg of which the bulk of my equipment was manufactured by.

It wasn't until the 90's that you could buy a piece of equipment and be reasonably sure that it would integrate itself into your studio. Of course then came computers and the MPU-401 and Cakewalk for DOS and the whole problem of where middle c occurred cropped up. BIAB was there in the melee with 'drums and bass' tracks and a whole 16 styles.

Kevin