10 inventions that changed the history of game sound

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Nice article about sound inventions that changed the history of game sound.

Most of these inventions are not limited to gaming but apply to music more generally speaking.

#1. Mechanical Music
#2. The Solenoid
#3. Sound synthesis
#4. Dedicated Sound Chips and Sound Cards
#5. MIDI
#6 The DAW, and Sequencers
#7 Interactive Music
#8 Surround Sound
#9 Middleware
#10 Real-Time DSPs and Procedural Generation

In your opinion, what is the best invention ?

MIDI? Surround? DSP’s?

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