An update to 37-year-old MIDI
&gt; In MIDI 1.0, all data was in 7-bit values. That means musical qualities were quantized on a scale of 0 to 127. Features like volume, pitch, and how much of the sound should come out of the right or left speaker are all measured on this scale, with 128 possible points. This is not a lot of resolution. For some really sophisticated listeners, they can clearly hear the steps between points.<p>This is extremely misleading. Sure, the velocity input into your synth is going to be at 7-bit resolution, but at soon as the synth has it, it can play anything it wants at whatever volume it wants to based on how you have configured it. There&#x27;s nothing about the external 7-bit implementation that is really limiting the dynamics of the synth itself.<p>Higher resolution timing and a greater amount of &#x27;awareness&#x27; about the features of the device at the other end so as to facilitate automatic mapping of controls from surfaces to synth parameters is what I would find more useful.