MIDI and the Atari ST. Standardized in 1983, MIDI technology was revolutionary. It enabled a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices to communicate with each other. In these excerpts above, Chris French demonstrates Activision’s “The Music Studio” software. With The Music Studio, one could place up to eight thousand notes in fifteen differently colored batches, each representing a different instrument. The Atari ST came with built-in MIDI ports and wa