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MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, IPA: /ˈmɪdi/) is an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other equipment to communicate, control and synchronize with each other. Definitions of Midi: Le midi is a colloquial name for Southern France. ...
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Telharmonium, created by Thaddeus Cahill 1897 Luigi Russolo and his assistant Ugo Piatti with their Intonarumori, 1913 Léon Theremin and his Theremin, 1919 Trautonium, 1928 An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. ...
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 Note names and MIDI note numbers. MIDI does not transmit an audio signal or media — it simply transmits digital data "event messages" such as the pitch and intensity of musical notes to play, control signals for parameters such as volume, vibrato and panning, cues and clock signals to set the tempo. As an electronic protocol, it is notable for its success, both in its widespread adoption throughout the industry, and in remaining essentially unchanged in the face of technological developments since its introduction in 1983. Image File history File links NoteNamesFrequenciesAndMidiNumbers. ...
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Pitch is the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound. ...
Vibrato is a musical effect where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound. ...
Panning is the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field. ...
A theatrical cue is the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time. ...
For other uses, see Tempo (disambiguation). ...
History
By the end of the 1970s, electronic musical devices were becoming increasingly common and affordable. However, devices from different manufacturers were generally not compatible with each other and could not be interconnected. Different interfacing models included: - analog control voltages at various standards (such as 1 volt per octave, or the logarithmic "hertz per volt")
- analog clock, trigger and "gate" signals (both positive "V-trig" and negative "S-trig" varieties, between -15V to +15V)
- proprietary digital interfaces such as Roland Corporation's DCB (digital control bus) and Yamaha's "keycode" system.
In an attempt to find a way forward from this situation, audio engineer and synthesizer designer Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits, Inc. proposed the MIDI standard in 1981 in a paper to the Audio Engineering Society. The proposal received widespread enthusiasm within the industry, and the MIDI Specification 1.0 was published in August 1983. Today, Dave Smith is generally regarded as the "Father of MIDI" and MIDI technology has been standardized and is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). Josephson junction array chip developed by NIST as a standard volt. ...
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Roland Corporation ) TYO: 7944 is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software. ...
Yamaha may refer to: Yamaha Corporation – A manufacturer of a diverse range of musical instruments and electronics. ...
Dave Smith // Dave Smith is generally known as the driving force behind the generation of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) specification, in fact, in 1981 he coined the acronym. ...
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Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from amongst engineers, scientists, manufacturers and other organisations and individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. ...
IMPORTANT: Some of the information in this section diverges from the official MMA/AMEI MIDI specifications in terminology and in technical detail. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
The MIDI Manufacturers Association, also known as MMA is an organization where companies work together to create the standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products. ...
Overview All official MIDI standards are jointly developed and published by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) in Los Angeles, California, USA (http://www.midi.org), and for Japan, the MIDI Committee of the Association of Musical Electronic Industry (AMEI) in Tokyo (http://www.amei.or.jp). The primary reference for MIDI is The Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification, document version 96.1, available only from MMA in English, or from AMEI in Japanese. Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...
The MIDI Show Control (MSC) protocol (in the Real Time System Exclusive subset) is an industry standard ratified by the MIDI Manufacturers Association in 1991 which allows all types of media control devices to talk with each other and with computers to perform show control functions in live and canned entertainment applications. Just like musical MIDI (above), MSC does not transmit the actual show media — it simply transmits digital data providing information such as the type, timing and numbering of technical cues called during a multimedia or live theatre performance. MIDI Show Control, or MSC, is a significant Real Time System Exclusive extension of the international Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard. ...
The MIDI Manufacturers Association, also known as MMA is an organization where companies work together to create the standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products. ...
Show control is the use of technology to link together and operate multiple entertainment control systems in a coordinated manner. ...
A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ...
A theatrical cue is the trigger for an action to be carried out at a specific time. ...
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Almost all music recordings today use MIDI devices. In addition, MIDI is also used to control hardware including recording devices and sound effects modules, as well as live performance equipment such as stage lights and effects pedals.
MIDI allows computers, synthesizers, MIDI controllers, sound cards, samplers and drum machines to control one another, and to exchange system data. This article is about the machine. ...
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A device, real or virtual, which generates and transmits MIDI data for operating musical devices or other devices which are electronically enabled for MIDI operation. ...
A sound card (also known as an audio card) is a computer expansion card that can input and output sound under control of computer programs. ...
An AKAI MPC2000 sampler Playing a Yamaha SU10 Sampler A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. ...
A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...
MIDI was a major factor in bringing an end to the "wall of synthesizers" phenomenon in 1970s-80s rock music concerts, when keyboard instrument performers were sometimes hidden behind banks of various instruments. Following the advent of MIDI, many synthesizers were released in rack-mount versions, enabling performers to control multiple instruments from a single keyboard.[citation needed] The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...
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Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...
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The layout of a typical musical keyboard A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which cause the instrument to produce sounds. ...
Another important result of MIDI has been the development of hardware and computer-based sequencers, which can be used to record, edit and play back performances. In the years immediately after the 1983 ratification of the MIDI specification, MIDI interfaces were released for the Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64, and the PC-DOS platform, allowing for the development of a market for powerful, inexpensive, and now-widespread computer-based MIDI sequencers. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ...
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IBM PC-DOS was one of the three major operating systems that dominated the personal computer market from about 1985 to 1995. ...
Synchronization of MIDI sequences is made possible by the use of MIDI timecode, an implementation of the SMPTE time code standard using MIDI messages, and MIDI timecode has become the standard for digital music synchronization. MIDI time code embeds the same timing information as standard SMPTE time code as a series of small quarter-frame MIDI messages. ...
SMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. ...
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A number of music file formats have been based on the MIDI bytestream. These formats are very compact; a file as small as 10 KB can produce a full minute of music or more due to the fact that the file stores instructions on how to recreate the sound based on synthesis with a MIDI synthesizer rather than an exact waveform to be reproduced. A MIDI synthesizer could be built into an operating system, sound card, embedded device (eg. hardware-based synthesizer) or a software-based synthesizer. The file format stores information on what note to play and when, such as other important information such as possible pitch-bend during the envelope of the note or the note's velocity. A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ...
This is advantageous for applications such as mobile phone ringtones, and some video games, however may be a disadvantage to other applications in that the information is not able to guarantee an accurate waveform will be heard by the intended listener, because each MIDI synthesizer will have its own methods for producing the sound from the MIDI instructions provided. One example is that any MIDI file played back through the Microsoft MIDI Synthesizer (included in any Windows operating system) should sound the same or similar, however, when the same MIDI bytestream is outputted to a synthesizer on a generic sound card or even a MIDI synthesizer on another operating system, the actual heard and rendered result may vary. One sound card's synthesizer might not reproduce the exact sounds of another synthesizer. A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone when ringing. ...
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General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ...
One clear example of this is how MIDI-based mobile phone ring tones sound different on a handset than when previewed on a PC. In the same way, most modern software synthesizers can handle MIDI files but might render them completely different from any another synthesizer, especially since most modern software synthesizers such as a VST Instrument tend to allow the loading of different patches and the modification of these patches to create different sounds for each MIDI input. For the television term, see Virtual studio. ...
A patch, in terms of music synthesizers, is a sound setting. ...
The term "MIDI sound" has often been used as a synonym for "bad sounding computer music", but this reflects a misunderstanding: MIDI does not define the sound, only the control protocol. This is probably a result of the poor quality sound synthesis provided by many early sound cards, which relied on FM synthesis instead of wavetables to produce audio. Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with a modulating frequency that is also in the audio range, resulting in a more complex waveform and a different-sounding tone. ...
Wavetable synthesis is used in digital musical instruments (synthesizers) to produce natural tone-like sounds. ...
MIDI interfaces All MIDI In and MIDI Out connectors are part of a MIDI interface. A MIDI interface moves internal binary data to the MIDI Out connector for transmission to another device's MIDI In connector, in MIDI message form. It also receives incoming MIDI messages arriving on the MIDI In connector (from another device's MIDI Out connector) into internal binary data. Many MIDI compatible instruments have a MIDI Thru connector, which can be used to connect a second instrument and pass along MIDI data received by the MIDI In connector of the first instrument. Such chaining together of instruments via MIDI Thru ports is unnecessary with the use of MIDI "patch bay," "mult" or "Thru" modules or boxes consisting of a MIDI In connector and multiple MIDI Out connectors to which multiple instruments are connected. Physically MIDI connectors are DIN 5/180° connectors. Image File history File links DIN-5_Diagram. ...
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5 pin 180° DIN connector 4 pin Mini-DIN S-Video connector Speaker DIN line socket (left) and plug DIN connectors are multi-pin electrical connectors based on a DIN standard. ...
All MIDI compatible instruments have a built-in MIDI interface. Some computers' sound cards have a built-in MIDI Interface, whereas others require an external MIDI Interface which is connected to the computer via the game port, the newer DA-15 connector, a USB connector or by FireWire. It has been suggested that DE-9 be merged into this article or section. ...
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MIDI message interoperability All MIDI compatible controllers, musical instruments, and MIDI-compatible software follow the same MIDI 1.0 specification, and thus interpret any given MIDI message the same way, and so can communicate with and understand each other. For example, if a note is played on a MIDI controller, it will sound at the right pitch on any MIDI instrument whose MIDI In connector is connected to the controller's MIDI Out connector. In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ...
How MIDI channel messages work When a musical performance is played on a MIDI instrument (or controller) it transmits MIDI channel messages from its MIDI Out connector. A typical MIDI channel message sequence corresponding to a key being struck and released on a keyboard is: - The user presses the middle C key with a specific velocity (which is usually translated into the volume of the note but can also be used by the synthesiser to set characteristics of the timbre as well). ---> The instrument sends one Note-On message.
- The user changes the pressure applied on the key while holding it down - a technique called Aftertouch (can be repeated, optional). ---> The instrument sends one or more Aftertouch messages.
- The user releases the middle C key, again with the possibility of velocity of release controlling some parameters. ---> The instrument sends one Note-Off message.
Note-On, Aftertouch, and Note-Off are all channel messages. For the Note-On and Note-Off messages, the MIDI specification defines a number (from 0–127) for every possible note pitch (C, C#, D etc.), and this number is included in the message. In Western music, the expression middle C refers to the note C or Do located exactly between the two staves of the grand staff, quoted as C4 in note-octave notation (also known as scientific pitch notation). ...
Keyboard expression often shortened to expression is the ability of the keyboard of a keyboard instrument to respond to the dynamics of the music. ...
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Keyboard expression often shortened to expression is the ability of the keyboard of a keyboard instrument to respond to the dynamics of the music. ...
Other performance parameters can be transmitted with channel messages, too. For example, if the user turns the pitch wheel on the instrument, that gesture is transmitted over MIDI using a series of Pitch Bend messages (also a channel message). The musical instrument generates the messages autonomously; all the musician has to do is play the notes (or make some other gesture that produces MIDI messages). This consistent, automated abstraction of the musical gesture could be considered the core of the MIDI standard.
MIDI file formats
Standard MIDI File (SMF) Format MIDI messages (along with timing information) can be collected and stored in a computer file system, in what is commonly called a MIDI file, or more formally, a Standard MIDI File (SMF). The SMF specification was developed by, and is maintained by, the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). MIDI files are typically created using computer-based sequencing software (or sometimes a hardware-based MIDI instrument or workstation) that organizes MIDI messages into one or more parallel "tracks" for independent recording and editing. In most sequencers, each track is assigned to a specific MIDI channel and/or a specific General MIDI instrument patch. Although most current MIDI sequencer software uses proprietary "session file" formats rather than SMF, almost all sequencers provide export or "Save As..." support for the SMF format. This article is about computer files and file systems in general terms. ...
The MIDI Manufacturers Association, also known as MMA is an organization where companies work together to create the standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products. ...
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General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ...
An SMF consists of one header chunk and one or more track chunks. There exist three different SMF formats; the format of a given SMF is specified in its file header. A Format 0 file contains a single track and represents a single song performance. Format 1 may contain any number of tracks, enabling preservation of the sequencer track structure, and also represents a single song performance. Format 2 may have any number of tracks, each representing a separate song performance. Sequencers do not commonly support Format 2. In information technology, Header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted, which contain information for the handling of the data block. ...
Large collections of SMFs can be found on the web, most commonly with the extension .mid. These files are most frequently authored with the assumption that they will be played on General MIDI players. A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ...
General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ...
MIDI Karaoke File (.KAR) Format MIDI-Karaoke (which uses the ".kar" file extension) files are an "unofficial" extension of MIDI files, used to add synchronized lyrics to standard MIDI files. SMF players play the music as they would a .mid file but do not display these lyrics unless they have specific support for .kar messages. These often display the lyrics synchronized with the music in "follow-the-bouncing-ball" fashion, essentially turning any PC into a karaoke machine. The Bouncing Ball Simulation System is a program for the Mac OS that provides a physically accurate rendering of the motions of a ball impacting with a sinusoidally vibrating table. ...
For other uses see Karaoke (disambiguation) A karaoke machine Karaoke from Japanese kara, empty or void, and Åkesutora, orchestra) (pronounced IPA: or ; in Japanese IPA: ; ) is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and a PA system. ...
MIDI-Karaoke file formats are not maintained by any standardization body.
XMF File Formats The MMA has also defined (and AMEI has approved) a new family of file formats, XMF (eXtensible Music File), some of which package SMF chunks with instrument data in DLS format (Downloadable Sounds, also an MMA/AMEI specification), to much the same effect as the MOD file format. The XMF container is a binary format (not XML-based, although the file extensions are similar). See the main article Extensible Music Format (XMF). For other uses, see Mod. ...
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...
The Extensible Music Format (XMF) is a family of music-related file formats created and administered by the MIDI Manufacturers Association. ...
RIFF-RMID File Format On Microsoft Windows, the system itself uses RIFF-based MIDI files with the .rmi extension. Note, Standard MIDI Files per se are not RIFF-compliant. A RIFF-RMID file, however, is simply a Standard MIDI File wrapped in a RIFF chunk. By extracting the data part of the RIFF-RMID chunk, the result will be a regular Standard MIDI File. “Windows†redirects here. ...
The Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic meta-format for storing data in tagged chunks. ...
In recommended practice RP-29 ([1]), the MMA defined a method for bundling one Standard MIDI file (SMF) image with one Downloadable Sounds (DLS) image, however, this method was obsoleted by the introduction of the Extensible Music Format (XMF), which should be used for this purpose. The Extensible Music Format (XMF) is a family of music-related file formats created and administered by the MIDI Manufacturers Association. ...
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Extensions of the MIDI standard Many extensions of the original official MIDI 1.0 spec have been standardized by MMA/AMEI. Only a few of them are described here; for more comprehensive information, see the MMA web site.
General MIDI The General MIDI (GM) and General MIDI 2 (GM2) standards define a MIDI instrument's response to the receipt of a defined set of MIDI messages. As such, they allow a given, conformant MIDI stream to be played on any conformant instrument. Although dependent on the basic MIDI 1.0 specification, the GM and GM2 specifications are each separate from it. As such, it is not generally safe to assume that any given MIDI message stream or MIDI file is intended to drive GM-compliant or GM2-compliant MIDI instruments. General Midi 1 was introduced in 1991.
General MIDI 2 Later, companies in Japan's Association of Musical Electronics Industry (sic) (AMEI) developed General MIDI Level 2 (GM2), incorporating aspects of the Yamaha XG and Roland GS formats, extending the instrument palette, specifying more message responses in detail, and defining new messages for custom tuning scales and more. The GM2 specs are maintained and published by the MMA and AMEI. General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ...
General MIDI Level 2 or GM2 is a specification for synthesizers which defines several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard and is based on General MIDI and GS extensions. ...
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General MIDI or GM is a specification for synthesizers which imposes several requirements beyond the more abstract MIDI standard. ...
General MIDI 2 was introduced in 1992.
SP-MIDI Later still, GM2 became the basis of the instrument selection mechanism in Scalable Polyphony MIDI (SP-MIDI), a MIDI variant for mobile applications where different players may have different numbers of musical voices. SP-MIDI is a component of the 3GPP mobile phone terminal multimedia architecture, starting from release 5.
GM, GM2, and SP-MIDI are also the basis for selecting player-provided instruments in several of the MMA/AMEI XMF file formats (XMF Type 0, Type 1, and Mobile XMF), which allow extending the instrument palette with custom instruments in the Downloadable Sound (DLS) formats, addressing another major GM shortcoming.
Alternate Hardware Transports In addition to the original 31.25 kBaud current-loop, 5-pin DIN transport, transmission of MIDI streams over USB, IEEE 1394 (AKA FireWire), and Ethernet is now common. Perhaps in the long run the IETF's RTP MIDI specification for transport of MIDI streams over Ethernet and the Internet may completely supersede the original DIN transport, since RTP MIDI is capable of providing the high-bandwidth channel that earlier alternatives to MIDI (such as ZIPI) were intended to bring. See external links below for further information. USB redirects here. ...
The 6-pin and 4-pin FireWire Connectors The alternative ethernet-style cabling used by 1394c FireWire is Apple Inc. ...
Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ...
Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ...
Introduced in 1994, ZIPI was hailed as the replacement for MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). ...
Alternate Tunings By convention, instruments that receive MIDI generally use the conventional 12-pitch per octave equal temperament tuning system. Unfortunately this tuning system makes many types of music inaccessible because the music depends on a different intonation system. To address this issue in a standardized manner, in 1992 the MMA ratified the MIDI Tuning Standard, or MTS. This standard allows MIDI instruments that support MTS to be tuned in any way desired, through the use of a MIDI Non-Real Time System Exclusive message. In music, the MIDI Tuning Standard, or MTS, is a specification of musical pitch agreed to by the MIDI Manufacturers Association. ...
MTS uses three bytes, which can be thought of as a three-digit number base 128, to specify a pitch in logarithmic form. The following formula gives the byte values needed to encode a given frequency in Hertz:
 For a note in A440 equal temperament, this formula delivers the standard MIDI note number. Any other frequencies fill the space evenly.
While support for MTS is not particularly widespread in commercial hardware instruments, it is nonetheless supported by some instruments and software, for example the free software programs TiMidity and Scala (program), as well as other microtuners. Clockwise from top: The logo of the GNU Project, the Linux kernel mascot Tux, and the BSD Daemon Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only...
Timidity is a MIDI and KAR to WAVE converter and player distributed under the terms of GNU general public license. ...
Scala is a freeware program available on the Web which allows the user to create musical scales (tunings), edit them, analyze them, play their sounds, and export these tunings to MIDI instruments. ...
A Microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that differ (or not) from...
Other applications of MIDI MIDI is also used every day as a control protocol in applications other than music, including: Such non-musical applications of MIDI are possible because any device built with a standard MIDI Out connector should in theory be able to control any other device with a MIDI In port, just as long as the developers of both devices have the same understanding about the semantic meaning of all the MIDI messages the sending device emits. This agreement can come either because both follow the published MIDI specifications, or else in the case of any non-standard functionality, because the message meanings are agreed upon by the two manufacturers. Show control is the use of technology to link together and operate multiple entertainment control systems in a coordinated manner. ...
Modern stage lighting is a flexible tool in the production of theatre, dance, opera and other performance arts. ...
Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ...
Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. ...
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Screenshot of MIDI Maze (Atari ST) MIDI Maze was an early first person shooter video game for the Atari ST developed by Xanth Software F/X, published by Hybrid Arts, and released around 1987. ...
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Motion is a software application produced by Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system. ...
Beyond MIDI 1.0 Although traditional MIDI connections work well for most purposes, a number of newer message protocols and hardware transports have been proposed over the years to try to take the idea to the next level. Some of the more notable efforts include:
OSC The Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol was at CNMAT. OSC has been implemented in the well-known software synthesizer Reaktor and in other projects including SuperCollider, Pure Data, Isadora, Max/MSP, Csound, VVVV and ChucK. The Lemur Input Device, a customizable touch panel with MIDI controller-type functions, also uses OSC. OSC differs from MIDI over traditional 5-pin DIN in that it can run at broadband speeds when sent over Ethernet connections. Unfortunately few mainstream musical applications and no standalone instruments support the protocol so far, making whole-studio interoperability problematic. OSC is not owned by any private company, however it is also not maintained by any standards organization. Since September 2007, there is a proposal for a standardized namespace within OSC for communication between and controllers, synthesizers and hosts. Open Sound Control Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology. ...
CNMAT CNMAT (pronounced senn´mat), The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies is a multidisciplinary research center within University of California, Berkeley Department of Music. ...
A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth or virtual instrument is a computer program for digital audio generation. ...
An example of a Reaktor 5 ensemble Structure Reaktor is a graphical modular software sound studio developed by Native Instruments. ...
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Pure Data with many patches open (netpd project) Pure Data (or Pd) is a graphical programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. ...
Isadora is a proprietary graphic programming environment for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, with emphasis on real-time manipulation of digital video. ...
Alternate meanings: MAX Max is a graphical development environment for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling74. ...
Csound is a computer programming language for dealing with sound, also known as a sound compiler or a music programming language. ...
ChucK is a concurrent, strongly-timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. ...
The Lemur Input Device is a highly-customizable multitouch panel from JazzMutant which serves as a controller for musical instruments, especially electronic musical instruments such as synthesizers. ...
Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ...
mLAN Yamaha has its mLAN[2] protocol, which is a based on the IEEE 1394 transport (also known as FireWire) and carries multiple MIDI message channels and multiple audio channels. mLAN is not maintained by a standards organization as it is a proprietary protocol. mLAN is open for licensing. The headquarters of Yamaha Corporation Yamaha redirects here. ...
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HD-MIDI Development of a major modernization of MIDI is now under discussion in the MMA. Tentatively called "High-Definition MIDI" (HD-MIDI™), this new standard would support modern high-speed transports, provide greater range and/or resolution in data values, increase the number of MIDI Channels, and support the future introduction of entirely new kinds of MIDI messages. Representatives from all sizes and types of companies are involved, from the smallest specialty show control operations to the largest musical equipment manufacturers. No technical details or projected completion dates have been announced. [3] [4] Image File history File links Gnome_globe_current_event. ...
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MIDI software - Further information: List of MIDI editors and sequencers
- Further information: MIDI_Show_Control#MIDI_Show_Control_software
A list of MIDI editors and sequencers. ...
MIDI Show Control, or MSC, is a significant Real Time System Exclusive extension of the international Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard. ...
Example MIDI files
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IMPORTANT: Some of the information in this section diverges from the official MMA/AMEI MIDI specifications in terminology and in technical detail. ...
The EJ Midi Turntable is an optical turntable system developed by EJ Enterprises and invented by MIT Media lab graduate Justin Kent. ...
For other uses see Karaoke (disambiguation) A karaoke machine Karaoke from Japanese kara, empty or void, and Åkesutora, orchestra) (pronounced IPA: or ; in Japanese IPA: ; ) is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and a PA system. ...
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MIDI Machine Control, or MMC, a subset of the MIDI specification, provides specific commands for controlling recording equipment such as multi-track recorders. ...
MIDI Show Control, or MSC, is a significant Real Time System Exclusive extension of the international Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) standard. ...
A device, real or virtual, which generates and transmits MIDI data for operating musical devices or other devices which are electronically enabled for MIDI operation. ...
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Module files (MODs) are a class of file formats used to represent music on a computer. ...
In the field of electronic music, a sequencer was traditionally a device or piece of software that allows the user to record, play back and edit musical patterns. ...
Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. ...
Show control is the use of technology to link together and operate multiple entertainment control systems in a coordinated manner. ...
ModPlug Tracker in Fast Tracker 2 colors mode Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels. ...
A list of MIDI editors and sequencers. ...
A contraction of Midi + Piano_Keyboard, Midiboards were keyboards sold without sound synthesis during the later part of the 1980s to address the needs of performance artists who needed a master keyboard to control racks of Midi synthesis modules (synthesizers without keyboards), a separation that was made possible with MIDI...
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