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MIDI is a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices. Learn about the history, applications, and advantages of MIDI, as well as the MIDI 2.0 standard introduced in 2020.
- MIDI keyboard
A MIDI keyboard or controller keyboard is typically a...
- MIDI controller
A MIDI controller is any hardware or software that generates...
- General MIDI
General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized...
- MIDI keyboard
A MIDI keyboard or controller keyboard is typically a piano-style electronic musical keyboard, often with other buttons, wheels and sliders, used as a MIDI controller for sending Musical Instrument Digital Interface commands over a USB or MIDI 5-pin cable to other musical devices or computers.
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MIDI controllers usually do not create or produce musical sounds by themselves. MIDI controllers typically have some type of interface that the performer presses, strikes, blows or touches. This action generates MIDI data (e.g. notes played and their intensity), which can then be transmitted to a MIDI-compatible sound module or synthesizer using a ...
The following are classes of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controller: 1. The human interface component of a traditional instrument redesigned as a MIDI control device. The most common type of device in this class is the keyboard controller. Such a device provides a musical keyboard and perhaps other actuators (pitch bend and modulati...
MIDI was designed with keyboards in mind, and any controller that is not a keyboard is considered an "alternative" controller. This was seen as a limitation by composers who were not interested in keyboard-based music, but the standard proved flexible, and MIDI compatibility was introduced to other types of controllers, including guitars, wind inst...
Software synthesizers offer great power and versatility, but some players feel that division of attention between a MIDI keyboard and a computer keyboard and mouse robs some of the immediacy from the playing experience.Devices dedicated to real-time MIDI control provide an ergonomic benefit and can provide a greater sense of connection with the ins...
Modifiers such as modulation wheels, pitch bend wheels, sustain pedals, pitch sliders, buttons, knobs, faders, switches, ribbon controllers, etc., alter an instrument's state of operation, and thus can be used to modify sounds or other parameters of music performance in real time via MIDI connections. Some controllers, such as pitch bend, are speci...
The most common MIDI controllers encountered are various sizes of MIDI keyboards. A modern controller lacks internal sound generation, instead acting as a primary or secondary input for a synthesizer, digital sampler or a computer running a VST instrument or other software sound generator. Many have several user-definable knobs and slide controls t...
MIDI (/ ˈmɪdi /; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard. It describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors. It connect a large variety of electronic musical instruments, digital devices for playing, editing, and recording music. [1]
General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. GM was developed by the American MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and the Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) and first published in 1991.
MIDI, technology standard allowing electronic musical instruments to communicate with one another and with computers. By the beginning of the 1980s, affordable digital synthesizer keyboards offering a wide range of instrument sounds and effects were widely available.
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The three parts of MIDI are often just referred to as “MIDI “, even though they are distinctly different parts with different characteristics. 1. The MIDI Messages – the software protocol. The MIDI Messages specification (or “MIDI Protocol”) is the most important part of MIDI.
