I'm camera right
_NetNomad"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"
"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"
"GUN???"
"HELICOPTER"
holy smokes that's a lot of boosts. uh, listen to crab music
https://carcinisation.bandcamp.com/album/carcinisation-hard-times
and/or join my nerd server for nerds
https://discord.com/invite/rhTKEqWkcT
most importantly trans right are human rights
Carcinisation / Hard Times, by Carcinisation
2 track album
Josh Justice@_netnomad "CUÍCA FORWARDS, CUÍCA BACKWARDS"
c-x-b 
@_netnomad don't forget about the most important one, GOBLINS
eevee 🦊@_netnomad *cash register* *cash register*
rail enthusiast wife Daria@eevee @_netnomad “and take your money”
oh yes (sickos mode)@_netnomad time to compose paper planes in midi
Eli the Bearded@_netnomad Consider also the 255 genre list in ID3 tags, version 1. "Primus" is an important genre, right?
Lunar 🛸 ♾@elithebearded @_netnomad No other way to categorise them, right?
Some Kind Of Anhedonia@elithebearded @_netnomad "Yeah, Primus' funk rock is so complicated we have to devote a genre entry to it but The Residents? You're on your own." I love Primus but I'm mad.
Should've made it a genre tag that if it's chosen just displays the artist tag.
Daniel Bohrer
Rockario@_netnomad Don't forget Goblins!
Łukasz Mikołajczyk 🦖
crobi@_netnomad RIGHT TORSO, LEFT TORSO, LEFT LEG, RIGHT LEG, CENTER TORSO, RIGHT ARM, LEFT ARM, COCKPIT
Eric Hamel@_netnomad OMG, I feel this vibe!
Lyf@_netnomad HAHAHAHAHAHA
Paul Cantrell@_netnomad Well how else would you expect to MIDIfy this?! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ykQFrL0X74
Helikopter-Streichquartett (Helicopter Quartet) - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Big Jesus Trashcan☑️🏴@_netnomad platin with a Moog one time helicopter sounds was all I could get out of it
nash@_netnomad my favorite is FX 6 (goblins)
seth
Jeremy Burge@_netnomad as someone who has been in meetings, can confirm the 'we can't agree on THESE GOOD BUT COMPLICATED THINGS but we can agree on THOSE SILLY BUT EASY THINGS' is 95% of how specs work
The Uberduck@jeremyburge @_netnomad patch 128 was just going to be "bike shed"
первичный бульон с пельмешками
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Helicopter String Quartet
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek@_netnomad You deserve something from program number 127 - amusingly the program sandwiched between helicopter and gunshot.
andwhyisit@_netnomad "UH FUCK" is clearly the most important of all midi instruments.
ideaPDish@_netnomad
A hamond organ or a ham and cheese?
A hamond organ or a ham and cheese?
Matt Good@_netnomad what a time to be alive.
Amster@_netnomad It tells a story: after listening to a variety of drums and fret noises at Guitar Center, you step outside and breathe at the seashore. A bird flies gracefully overhead. Then a telephone rings. What? A helicopter swoops down and the scene fades to black. Then a slap-clap, cut off by a single echoing shot. #MIDI #AndScene
Solarbird 
@_netnomad VANILLA EXTRACT
Ian K Tindale
Bethan M. Jenkins@_netnomad @marnanel Stockhausen there on the midi development panel
@_netnomad We also really need a goblin. What goblin? Why? How do we make a goblin an instrument? Don't worry about any of that, we really really need a goblin in our standard right this instant!
@ZILtoid1991 @_netnomad Well umm, it's just a suggestion that you should make a patch called goblins in the synthesizer effects group, sorry, this making a standard thing is difficult, but have fun making synthesizers that comply with it
RoBKTA 🏁🏎️✨🎮
@_netnomad "Spaceship?"
Renalia - #1 pizza downloader@_netnomad midi will never be truly compete until it has a built in fart_reverb.wav style instrument
@_netnomad
Indeed helicopter is a very important instrument. There's even a song about it. https://youtu.be/3ExGuHWdXCE
Indeed helicopter is a very important instrument. There's even a song about it. https://youtu.be/3ExGuHWdXCE
Fazlija - Helikopter
Peter Bindels
Helikopter 117 (Mach' den Hub Hub Hub) - Tobee - (offizielles Lyric Video)
Paralax^SD@_netnomad "Karlheinz Stockhausen likes this."
kmetz@_netnomad it was (is?) perfect for B and C movies, maybe that was the use case in mind?
Sigsegv@_netnomad Haven't you heard Bach's Helicopter Symphony in A Minor?
*Update:* Apparently my joke wasn't that far from reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ykQFrL0X74
Helikopter-Streichquartett (Helicopter Quartet) - Karlheinz Stockhausen
ospalh@_netnomad
*Obviously* helicopter, right after violin, viola and cello.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helikopter-Streichquartett
*Obviously* helicopter, right after violin, viola and cello.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helikopter-Streichquartett
Philipp Pixel@_netnomad I feel this toot in my bones. Additionally I feel old now. #midi
Stug@_netnomad how else do you replicate Karlheinz Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet in an affordable manner?
Daniel M Karlsson@_netnomad This made me chuckle. Thank you.
nosfe@_netnomad needed for that Stockhausen symphony
Hisham@_netnomad "Helicopter" is only there as a standard patch because MIDI was standardized in 1983 and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" came out in 1980, and no one can convince me otherwise.
wakest likes your bugs ⁂@hisham_hm @_netnomad would absolutely love some deep dive research into this history
Ehproque has moved
toby@_netnomad there's a different world in which this got expanded and subsetted into Sound Unicode codepoints
Savera@_netnomad the Dhol
Willem Janssen
Alex Hanna@_netnomad also, goblin
Tom Quinn@_netnomad pulse oximeter. Defibrillator
Furby
Matt Campbell@_netnomad I'm sure the real story is far more interesting. Maybe the instrument list from an existing MIDI synthesizer became the spec. I wonder if anyone knows the actual history of that.
Gadfly (-booq-)@_netnomad THEY WERE RIGHT.
Isocat now → @@_netnomad Ice cream cone.
Gio ✴️@_netnomad he has called It the Hydra, but you name It https://youtu.be/46qjDJ0lLdE
