SynthGPT was an April Fools’ prank launched on April 1st 2023. It doesn’t actually exist (at least not yet!) and it is not available as VST. You cannot download or buy it, it doesn’t work for real, it’s not compatible with any DAW, and the annoying sound it produces is not a glitch or a bug, really, it’s part of the joke. We apologize if it offended anyone. The intention was simply to create a playful prank that was both timely and relevant.
– Soren / Luftrum.
Oh no. You have just delayed “baggy and the zynthclub bellends” new album by 14.6 milliseconds. Our talent algorithm won’t be stopped though.
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Remaining entirely ephemeral one suspects…
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Artificial Processing Realtime Intelligence Language - very good! Nice to see we have friends that have the time to have a laugh and create such beatifully crafted jokes. This too is art!
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This year, the MIDI Association published a news letter on 1st April with this lead story:
It's April 1st and so we are celebrating April Fool's Day.There are some pretty big announcements about MIDI in this newsletter and we hope you enjoy them.
Our first and most important announcement is that after 42 years, The MIDI Association has decided that our non-profit model of providing MIDI for free to everyone is no longer sustainable in an increasingly transactional world.
So starting today (April 1, 2025), we are moving MIDI to a monthly subscription model.
If you wish to continue to use MIDI, you will need to purchase a monthly MIDI subscription which includes 50,000 Note Ons (with 50,000 Note Offs included at no charge) and 50,000 Control Change messages for the unbelievably low price of $19.99 with a 10% discount for annual subscriptions.
Additional packages of either 10,000 Note Ons/Offs or 10,000 Control Changes messages can be purchased with our convenient MIDI Monthly Overage Packages for $9.99.
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I will subscribe straight away then: would never risk losing access to two decades of Midi data!
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Sysex, obviously, remain the intellectual property of the defining company, with which you will, obviously, need to abide by their specific licence policy.
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Right, no question about that: I will have to contact soon Korg, Yamaha, Roland and a bunch of other legitimate owners of sysex property rights, to strike a deal with each of them in order to be able to communicate lawfully with their synthesisers. Defaulting this, they will arguably force me to install a private 56k modem dongle on every synth, for checking that I am loyally paying them the due per-second SUR (sysex user rate).