[rodgersorgan] Does MIDI make sense in church?

This is a question that pops up from time to time.

The person asking often does not understand the full application of MIDI in its 
use with the church organ.

MIDI is merely a quick and easy way to hook things up.  Digital music 
manufacturers working together came up with the idea and implemented it in a 
few short years.  Pipe organ builders, in business for centuries, have never 
tried.  Even today, with digital electronics being used in the control system 
of most pipe organs, there still is not a recognized protocol.

How MIDI is used is what many people do not understand.

MIDI permits software of quite different manufacturers to be used in concert 
with the software and hardware of others.

This results in organist being able to access libraries of voices, instruments 
and sound effect very affordably.  

The organist may also record their playing and then walk through the building 
and listen to how one sounds as MIDI is used to play back what has been stored.

Organists may record the service improvisations, take a floppy disk home and 
edit and publish the improv within hours of the creation of the music.

Organists may audition music by inserting a floppy into the sequencer and 
listen to the organ.

Organists who are without orchestra in church may perform with MIDI orchestra.

When poeple ask if your organ has MIDI, they may  be asking if you can play 
strings, harp and electric piano from the organ console.  Take time and explain 
the possibilites!

noel jones
on the road

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