The origin of the MPE name
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Did you know that Roger Linn and I came up with the term Polyphonic Multidimensional Expression in December 2014, which became Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) in January 2015 when I wrote the first draft of the spec and then MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) when we worked through it with the MIDI association expert group in the following three years?
It's fascinating to me to see how ubiquitous the term MPE has become now. Several times along the journey, it was almost lost to more marketing-oriented names.
I however always kept putting my foot down in defense of MPE, because I thought that it was exactly as short and nerdy as it needed to be for wide adoption.
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