It is clear to see that MIDI played a big role in allowing albums like Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight to be produced, and that masterful producers like Mike Dean have been able to take advantage of the revolutionary technologies in creative ways in modern times. Modern music producers use the technology every day, and due to its adaptability, are still able to create new sounds with technology that is now 40 years old. The technology has at its core remained the same; it doesn’t do anything fundamentally different today than it did when it was originally created. Other technology has changed around it, however. Computing power has increased significantly since the 1980s, and new MIDI hardware devices are released all the time. So while the fundamentals of MIDI haven’t changed, the improved hardware has allowed for music producers to create more complex sounds and more unique patterns. This is what’s great about MIDI: it is so adaptable, that even if music producers are using it in another 40 years, they’ll be able to do so much more with the technology than can be done with it today. MIDI has changed, and will continue to change, the course of music for the next 40 years, and it’s exciting to see how the next generation of musicians will create their own genre(s) of music and take advantage of the technologies their predecessors have invented for them.