What is MIDI?
MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. The MIDI specification is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). We have written 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 is an acronym for MusicalInstrument 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 is an acronym for musical instrument digital interface. Midi files contain the equivalent of an electronic musical score. This digital sheet music contains performance information, without any actual samples of sound. Midi is the only sound format that contains no actual sound samples. Microsoft .wav files and other formats are real sound files, and tend to be huge files relative to the time duration of the sound, as compared to midi files. Your computer contains the actual patches or samples of sound that are played for the midi score. Midi files can have multiple tracks and can be included in web pages and qucickly downloaded and heard by the people who are browsing your web site.
If you are a beginner, you may wish to start by reading this. It was the first article posted on About.com’s MP3.Com, back in February of 1997, and it is still popular. *I have had the following information for quite some time. It was previously posted on another site. I have edited this information for length. It is based on an article from The Online Digital Music Newsletter You may have heard that MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is basically a standard way for various electronic musical instruments to interact with each other. For example, if you have a MIDI-capable keyboard, you can connect it to a drum machine and trigger the drum sounds using the keyboard. You could even connect up two or more keyboards and play them all simultaneously. The reason you are able to hear MIDI tunes through your computer is that you have a MIDI-capable sound card inside the machine. Most sound cards these days are capable of playing MIDI files, but some do a much bet
“MIDI” stands for “Musical Instrument Digital Interface”, and is a standard digital “language” which allows musical instruments and related devices from any manufacturer to communicate with one another via a simple cable. MIDI was created in 1983, with cooperation and agreement between electronic musical instrument manufacturers from around the world. MIDI immediately opened up a whole new world of musical possibilities: several instruments could be connected and played simultaneously, a sequencer could be used to simultaneously drive several synthesizers playing different parts of a composition, sequencer playback could be synchronized with drum machines, and much more. It also became possible to simultaneously switch voices and control parameters such as pitch bend on several instruments at once. Of course, it also became possible to connect computers and musical instruments. In fact, it wasn’t long before computers were being manufactured with built-in MIDI tone generators, paving t
