
Students Guide to Information
Technology
which in the past could only be achieved by traditional musical
instruments. They can also generate automatically a range of
accompaniments to a tune.
• Many musical instruments which produce an electrical output,
such as electronic keyboards, can be linked directly to other
electronic equipment such as computers by means of a midi
interface. The processing power of the computer can then be
brought to bear on a musical composition, to produce effects
which cannot be economically produced by ocher means. For
example, the notes from a single instrument can be processed to
produce the effect of an entir ...