What is MIDI?
MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The MIDI specification is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). We havewritten a couple of short starter tutorials on MIDI: • Getting to Know MIDI. • MIDI in a Nutshell. • General MIDI Instrument and Drum Kit lists. There are many other MIDI tutorials on the internet, which you can find using any internet search engine.
MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a music industry standard communications protocol that lets MIDI instruments and sequencers (or computers running sequencer software) talk to each other to play and record music. More and more of the music you hear every day is written with and played by MIDI sequencers.
MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The MIDI specification is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). We havewritten a couple of short starter tutorials on MIDI: • Getting to Know MIDI. • MIDI in a Nutshell. • General MIDI Instrument and Drum Kit lists. There are many other MIDI tutorials on the internet, which you can find using any internet search engine.
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI is a communications standard; as its name suggests, it was designed as a “Digital Interface” (for you non-techies, this basically means that binary 0’s and 1’s are being sent over a wire from one device to another) for “Musical Instruments”. MIDI was born in 1983 when a group of major electronic-instrument manufacturers realized the need for such a standard and developed one. Before MIDI, it was very difficult or impossible to interface equipment made by different manufactures. Therefore, it was quite common to see keyboardists playing several keyboards at the same time, since no one keyboard was the “overall best” in everything. Physically, MIDI consists of three wires with a five-pin DIN type connector at each end (two pins are not used). The connectors look a bit like the background of this page, as well as other graphics on “Twin Cities MIDI”. MIDI data is not the same as sound data. What is transmitted over the wire is info
