I suspect there are still uses for a type 0, but I don't know what they are.

Back in the day when I was feeding 3.25" floppy disks into one of two on stage, hardware, MIDI file players type 0 was practical.

Back then, computers were too undependable to bring on stage, so it was two MIDI file players (Roland Sound Brush) and a rack of MIDI modules. Two so I could go from song to song instantly, and a spare in case one crapped out.

I always kept a type 1 copy on my home computer. I keep one file in the sequencer/DAW's native language, and another in Type 1 MIDI - just in case.



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