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Dave Smith: The creator of MIDI.

Dave smith is a Audio engineer and guitarist, who's groundbreaking technology led to the creation of the 'prophet 5' and is commonly referred to as the father of MIDI. 

In 1981 Smith started developing the idea of MIDI. He presented a paper outlining the idea of a Universal Synthesiser Interface (USI) to the Audio Engineering Society in 1981 after meetings with Tom Oberheim and Roland's Ikutaro Kakehashi. The plan was to create a standard communications protocol between electronic instruments and equipment from different manufacturers around the world. The result was MIDI. MIDI was first publicly demonstrated at the Winter NAMM Show in 1983, when a Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 was successfully connected to a Roland Jupiter-6. In 1987 he was named a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for his continuing work in the area of music synthesis.

After Sequential, Smith was President of DSD, Inc, a Research and Development Division of Yamaha, where he worked on physical modeling synthesis and software synthesiser concepts. In May 1989 he started the Korg R&D group in California, which went on to produce the innovative and commercially successful Wavestation synthesizer and other technology.

Needless to say anyone that remixes music or uses sampling in society today has used/ uses or at the very least used MIDI, it is a format that revolutionised electronic music. 

( if you wish to read about MIDI, i posted earlier about it heres a link: http://3spada.blogspot.com/2011/08/midi-platform-that-survived.html and http://3spada.blogspot.com/2011/08/moar-midi-p.html )