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From: pvallado@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Paolo Valladolid) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [comp.music] ZIPI Spec (was Re: A MIDI-less topic) Followup-To: poster Date: 19 Sep 1994 18:19:22 +0200 Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum NNTP-Posting-Host: rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de X-Url: ftp://mitpress.mit.edu/pub/Computer-Music-Journal/Texts/ZIPI X-Batch-Name: archsave.1994-09-17 X-Original-Date: 16 Sep 94 18:57:35 GMT

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Here's one:

ZIPI (Zeta Instrument Processor Interface) is a proposed replacement for MIDI developed by Zeta Instruments and UC Berkeley's CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies). ZIPI addresses many of MIDI's limitations; including bandwidth, number of channels, etc., as well as offering special control parameters for non-keyboard-based controllers such as data gloves, guitars, wind controllers, etc. Recently, the ZIPI specification has been made available by anonymous ftp at the following sites:

mitpress.mit.edu:/pub/Computer-Music-Journal/Texts/ZIPI/ ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Publications/cmj/Texts/ZIPI/

In these directories are a README file and 6 articles in ASCII text and PostScript formats.

Those who do not have anonymous ftp access may send their name and postal address to zipi@cnmat.berkeley.edu for paper copies of the ZIPI specification.

ZIPI may have its name changed since its creators are thinking of dropping the "Zeta" part to make it more palatable to other manufacturers. Zeta hopes to introduce the first ZIPI-compatible guitar controller (with built in synthesizer and MIDI I/O) at the Winter NAMM, followed by a high-end ZIPI-compatible synthesizer module.

I am not affiliated with Zeta or CNMAT, but one of the readers of the Digital Guitar mailing list is an affiliate. :)

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