A digital audio workstation that can be connected to MIDI organ consoles and is capable of simulating large pipe organs, theatre organs, and 'classic synthesizers' has been developed. It is also has substantial capabilities for MIDI composition, arranging, scoring, and rendering in addition to 'ordinary' digital audio recording and audio/video editing.
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One of the advantages of the MIDI system is the possibility to use a computer for editing and playing MIDI message sequences. Besides its processing speed and its storage capacity, the computer allows modifying any music parameter with great precision and simplicity. Since the creation of the MIDI standard, a great variety of commercial programs for musical composition have appeared on almost every platform. The first programs were on 32 bit-based computers like the Amiga, the Atari and also the well known Apple Macintosh Nowadays in the PC domain there is a high level of MIDI software development under Windows as well as under Linux.
