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What is Midi and How should I make use of it with the PSRs?

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What is Midi and How should I make use of it with the PSRs?

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What it is: Midi is a file, command and electrical transmission format that was developed by a committee made up of manufacturers in the early 80s so that computers can talk to musical instruments. There is a formal standard but it always lags technology and applications. As a consequence, each manufacturer makes their own additions which create some translation problems (XG voices, GS handclap notes, Yamaha Specific Sysex Events such as Chord Events, Midi lyrics vs. Karaoke lyrics are examples). The format of the midi file is basically simple: It is a binary file with a header with housekeeping info such as the length of the file, what format (type 1 or 0), the resolution (number of ticks/ quarter note). After the header are track areas that have the commands. A Type 0 file has all data in one track; a type 1 file has the data for each midi channel in its own track. Each command in a track has three components: the delay time before the command is to be executed, a code saying what ty

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