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	Making Music (and More) with MIDI
		MIDI ring tones sound far better because they are polyphonic (play more than one note at one time) and because they use music synthesizers which produce a wider variety of sounds than possible before.
		And since each instrument in a MIDI performance is separate from the rest, its easy to "solo" (listen to just one) individual instruments and study them for educational purposes, or to mute individual instruments in a song so that you can play that part yourself.
		MIDI files are perfect for practicing with, as well as for performing when additional musicians are not available.
	www.midi.org /about-midi/aboutmidi3.shtml (1311 words)

	Analog Devices : SoundMAX : Technology - Technical Briefs - An Introduction to MIDI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MIDI has been widely accepted and used by musicians and composers since it was adopted in 1983 and has proven to be a highly creative and useful tool for writing and recording music.
		MIDI musicians can write music that no human could ever perform, because the standard allows them to manipulate musical notes in any way they see fit, with far less physical restraint than what is required to play a "normal" instrument.
		MIDI may have taken off like a rocket, but it was not without a few disagreements between the U.S. and Japan (and between Yamaha and Roland).
	www.soundmax.com /technology/briefs/midiprimer.html (1131 words)

	Chapter Three: How MIDI works
		MIDI has put powerful computer instrument networks and software in the hands of less technically versed musicians and amateurs and has provided new and time-saving tools for computer musicians.
		In 1983, the MIDI 1.0 Specification was formally released by the International MIDI Association* as Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kawai and Sequencial Circuits all came out with MIDI-capable instruments that year.
		MIDI is a system very much like a player piano roll in that it is used to specify the actions of a synthesizer or other electronic devices, while the tone or effect is generated by the instrument itself.
	www.indiana.edu /~emusic/etext/MIDI/chapter3_MIDI.shtml (245 words)

	MIDI
		This was also the time when manufacturers were beginning to convert their internal circuitry from analog to digital form, even when they were manufacturing "analog" synthesizers, and to embody the structure of their machines into integrated circuits.
		The transmission protocol selected by the MMA is one widely used in the computer industry (in modems, for example), namely the serial transmission of data in bytes by a Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART, also known as an RS-232-C interface) at a rate of 31.25 kilobaud, with a start bit, 8 data bits, and stop bit.
		MIDI defines 128 different velocities, but velocity zero is taken to be silence, and a note on message with velocity zero is taken to be the same as a note off message.
	qcpages.qc.cuny.edu /~howe/music726.1/MIDI.html (4382 words)

	MIDI File Format - The Sonic Spot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Standard MIDI files provide a common file format used by most musical software and hardware devices to store song information including the title, track names, and most importantly what instruments to use and the sequence of musical events, such as notes and instrument control information needed to play back the song.
		Each MIDI Channel Event consists of a variable-length delta time (like all track events) and a two or three byte description which determines the MIDI channel it corresponds to, the type of event it is and one or two event type specific values.
		The pitch value is defined by both parameters of the MIDI Channel Event by joining them in the format of yyyyyyyxxxxxxx where the y characters represent the last 7 bits of the second parameter and the x characters represent the last 7 bits of the first parameter.
	www.sonicspot.com /guide/midifiles.html (3153 words)

	MIDI Manufacturers Association Books - MIDI Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification - IN STOCK
		MIDI Classics®, Box 311, Weatogue, CT 06089-0311 USA
		Copyright © 1996, 2007, MIDI Classics®, Revised 08/18/2007
	www.midi-classics.com /b/bM3915.htm (24 words)

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		The "parameters" may also be usurped by a manufacturer for mode control, since their purposes are undefined.
		Another HUGE problem with the "daisy-chain" mental set of MIDI is that most devices ALWAYS shovel whatever they play to their MIDI outs, whether they got it from the keyboard or MIDI in.
		The parameter set used by the average synthesizer manufacturer isn't anyplace close to orthogonal in any sense, and is bound to vary wildly in comparison to anybody elses.
	www.harmony-central.com /MIDI/Doc/primer.txt (2095 words)

	KVR: WIKI: Midi
		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.
		The MIDI standard was first proposed by Dave Smith in 1981 in a paper to the Audio Engineering Society and the MIDI Specification 1.0 was published in August 1983.
		MIDI is almost directly responsible for bringing an end to the "wall of synthesizers" phenomenon in 1970s-80s rock music concerts, when musical keyboard performers were sometimes hidden behind banks of various instruments.
	www.kvraudio.com /wiki/?id=midi (588 words)

	Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) - Home
		The MMA has delivered a special report to the transition committees for the incoming administration, highlighting the core municipal priorities that the MMA and local leaders have identified as essential to renew the state’s communities and economy.
		The Annual Meeting, to be held Jan. 12 and 13 in Boston, is the largest annual gathering of municipal officials in the state.
		The new version of the law enables a city or town to allow expedited permitting within a designated area rather than the community at large, and increases the timeframe for completing the permitting process from 90 to 180 days.
	www.mma.org (399 words)

	ittyMIDI.com - ittyMIDI Player 2.1 User Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was established in 1983 by the MIDI Manufacturers Association to allow musicians to connect synthesizers together.
		MIDI is divided into three different components: MIDI protocol, standard MIDI file, and the MIDI connector/cables.
		MIDI files are shared through MIDI cables which carry data needed by each device in order to play the right music.
	www.ittymidi.com /midi.asp (410 words)

	MIDI Guide
		MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a digital, non-proprietary hardware and software protocol for data communications among electronic musical instruments and computers.
		The MIDI 1.0 specification was developed in 1983 by a consortium of hardware and software manufacturers responding to a proposal by Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits.
		Each MIDI word consists of 10 bits (one 8-bit byte with a start bit before and after) and 3125 words can be transmitted per second for a data communications rate of 31,250 bits per second.
	www.stevenestrella.com /midi (2945 words)

	MIDI Music
		Special MIDI karaoke files allow a user to listen to and sing along with the MIDI file, when played by a special MIDI karaoke application, available for most computer operating system platforms.
		MIDI sites are either taking the risk, keeping illegal music on, or they're removing the files--and their liability-- by simply linking to MIDI files on other servers.
		The musical harvest at places like the MIDI farm which are just beginning to become bountiful thanks to new technologies and the Web, may soon experience "bit famine." Or, musical artists may find a new medium--for their exhibiting performance and for collecting revenue-- in the form of MIDI files distributed through the World Wide Web.
	www.drake.edu /journalism/CenturysEnd/musmidi.html (956 words)

	MainFrame: A Short History of Midi
		The Midi Manufacturers Association (MMA) was set up with responsibility for maintenance and development of the standard.
		Midi signals are fed from the keyboard, into the computer and from the computer via the synthesizer back to the keyboard.
		Midi was once thought a format for distributing music, but has largely been eclipsed by formats such as mp3.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/music/mus007.htm (1733 words)

	What is MIDI? - Knowledge Base
		MIDI is a set of suggestions concerning the design and manufacture of digital instruments to facilitate their working together.
		The MIDI protocol is documented in the MIDI specification (published and maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association, or MMA).
		The MIDI protocol allows inter-networking of instruments made by different manufacturers by providing a common language to transmit and receive digital information.
	kb.iu.edu /data/midi.html (293 words)

	MIDI
		One application of MIDI files is a simple single-track player in a program which needs to make synthesizers make sounds, but which is primarily concerned with something else such as mixers or sound effect boxes.
		In a format 2 MIDI file, it is used to identify each "pattern" so that a "song" sequence using the Cue message to refer to the patterns.
		May be used with the MIDI Prefix meta-event to specify which MIDI channel the description applies to, or the channel may be specified as text in the event itself.
	www.4front-tech.com /pguide/midi/midi7.html (3157 words)

	SDS specification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The MIDI SDS was adopted in January 1986 by the MIDI Manufacturers Association and the Japanese MIDI Standards Committee.
		This is to avoid overflow of the MIDI input buffer of a device that may want to receive an entire packet before processing it.
		The packet number is followed by 120 bytes of data, which form 60, 40, or 30 words (MSB first for multiword samples), depending on the length of a single data sample.
	www.midi.com /questions/summary_sds.asp (426 words)

	MIDI Drum Machine MIDI Details
		When I designed the MIDI drum machine, I obtained the MIDI 1.0 Specification from appendix A of "The MIDI Manual", by David Miles Huber, SAMS 1991, ISBN 0-672-22757-6, which Rod checked out from the Oregon State University Library.
		MIDI communication is async serial, 8-N-1 format at 31250 baud, using a opto-isolated current loop circuit.
		MIDI communication consists of messages, which are usually short groups of bytes, where the first byte has its Most Significant Bit (MSB) set (128 to 255) and the following bytes of the message have their MSB clear (0 to 127).
	www.pjrc.com /tech/midi-drums/midi.html (676 words)

	RIFF-based MIDI File Format
		Wrapper format for MIDI data, as first specified by Microsoft, and later extended by MIDI.org (an arm of the MIDI Manufacturers Association) to permit the bundling of both MIDI files and Downloadable Sounds (DLS) files.
		It is worth noting that after the MIDI Manufacturers Association developed XMF in 2001, they recommend its use in preference to RMID.
		The extended specification that documented how both MIDI and downloadable sounds could be bundled in an RMID file (technical note RP-029, "Bundling SMF and DLS data in an 'RMID' File"), was published by the MIDI Manusfacturers Association (MMA) in 2000.
	www.digitalpreservation.gov /formats/fdd/fdd000120.shtml (314 words)

	MIDI Papa´s - The MIDI FAQ by CC
		MIDI worked alright, and the devices from different manufacturers could indeed communicate, but the results were sometimes unexpected.
		When a MIDI message tells a synthesizer to use instrument number 12 (and that IS how it works) then one synthesizer would generate the sound of a vibraphone and another one would generate the sound of a violin.
		Manufacturers like Roland (SG) and Yamaha (XG) add so many features to their sound modules, that it is not possible to access them all using only the 'normal' MIDI messages (i.e.
	members.aol.com /midipapa/midi_faq.htm (11752 words)

	MIDI Show Control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The MIDI Show Control protocol is an industry standard ratified by the MIDI Manufacturers Association in 1991 which allows all types of entertainment control devices to talk with each other and with computers to perform show control functions in live and canned entertainment applications.
		To create the MSC spec, Charlie Richmond headed the USITT MIDI Forum on their Callboard Network in 1990, which included developers and designers from the theatre sound and lighting industry from around the world.
		This was ratified by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) in January, 1991, and the Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) later that year, becoming a part of the standard MIDI specification in August, 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MIDI_Show_Control (494 words)

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		MIDI Manufacturers Association - The MMA was formed in 1984 as a "trust" to maintain the MIDI specification as an open standard.
		Midi Cable (both ends) - This is standard wiring pinouts for Din connectors for MIDI use.
		DIY MIDI Controllers using PIC Microcontrollers and Basic Stamps - By combining a PIC microcontroller or Basic Stamp II with a few passive components it is not difficult to construct your own knob box, trigger box, or other MIDI input device.
	www.messaggeri.it /xmidi.htm (1170 words)

	Standard MIDI File Format
		From the specification from MIDI.org (an arm of the MIDI Manufacturers Association): "This chunk architecture is similar to that used by the Electronic Arts IFF format, and the chunks described herein could easily be placed in an IFF file.
		The MIDI file itself is not an IFF file: it contains no nested chunks, and chunks are not constrained to be an even number of bytes long." (Section 4, p.
		MIDI data is placed in numerous types of files, including files used in games and specialized devices.
	www.digitalpreservation.gov /formats/fdd/fdd000119.shtml (319 words)

	MIDI Solutions Event Processor Guide Introduction
		MIDI Solutions’ little "fl boxes" have always provided easy answers to tricky MIDI problems, but the Event Processor, and its big brother, the Event Processor Plus take this ability to a new level.
		This is one of the most common MIDI commands that we will want to use in the Event Processor, and despite its name, often represents controls (like switches) that don’t provide a continuous range of settings; instead, they use 0 for off and 127 for on.
		Used with permission by MIDI Solutions, Inc. This document may be freely copied and distributed in whole; sections of the document may not be used for other purposes without expressed written permission from Ashby Solutions.
	www.midisolutions.com /EP_Guide.htm (2874 words)

	MIDI Manufacturers Association
		The MIDI Manufacturers Association (also known as "MMA") is where companies work together to create the standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products.
		If you are a developer of audio content, tools, or technology for interactive multimedia applications, you are welcome to join the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group.
		All materials, graphics, and text copyright © 1995-2006 MIDI Manufacturers Association Incorporated.
	www.midi.org (212 words)

	audioMIDI.com - Sound Quest - Midi Quest XL 9 - PC
		Midi Quest XL is the professional version of Midi Quest 9 and includes all of the most advanced editor/librarian features and is the only version of Midi Quest to include VST, MFX, and OPT plug-ins.
		This makes Midi Quest much easier to use for anyone which has a MIDI interface that does not have multi-client drivers and is a definite advantage.
		Midi Quest XL is currently the only application to support this new file format currently used by DigiDesign's ProTools application.
	www.audiomidi.com /Midi-Quest-XL-9---PC-P2556.aspx (739 words)

	MIDI Pitch Pipe
		This form generates a MIDI file containing a single 4-beat whole note at t=120 (hence, a duration of 2 seconds) given the specified MIDI instrument and pitch.
		This generator simply outputs a MIDI file based on a template, by changing the two parameters.
		I have little knowledge regarding the exact MIDI specifications, so this generator is not guaranteed to be either robust or fully compliant with MIDI specs.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~suan/misc/midi.html (195 words)

	MIDI, MIDIFILES, SPECIFICATION
		I have been told that MIDI Files will only sound as good as my computer sound card, and that Variances in quality can be dramatic.
		A sequencing program such as Cubase, Logic (Mac only) or Cakewalk is an excellent way of not only recordng your midi files to audio, but depending on the version of the program, you are able to enhance the resultant WAV file to get maximum results.
		Band In A Box is another program that has the ability to create MIDI backings easily and the resultant files can be burnt to CD - and it is inexpensive.
	www.musicpark.com.au /Midi.html (410 words)

	MIDI Basics 1
		They are associated to the idea of EXTERNAL controllers, such as as Foot Pedal or Slider.
		For instance: one MIDI Channel could play a ‘double bass’ sound; another channel could play a ‘saxophone’ sound; other channels could be assigned to ‘piano’ sounds in order to play chords.
		That is, each MIDI Channel is capable of sustaining several notes at the same time.
	www.music.mcgill.ca /~stewart/t/f/midi1.html (1987 words)

	MIDI Celebrates 20 Years
		The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA, Los Angeles) announced that a MIDI 20th-anniversary celebration will be held at the Winter NAMM music products show, January 16-19, 2003, in Anaheim, Calif. The MMA promotional activities will be based in Booth 1385 in Hall E of the Anaheim Convention Center.
		MMA members are also providing MIDI products—from keyboards and lighting rigs to cell phones—to display at the booth.
		Interested parties who want to learn more about the MIDI 20th Anniversary Celebration at Winter NAMM can contact MMA program director James Grunke at 408/828.0993 or by e-mail at mapleinc@earthlink.net.
	mixonline.com /news/audio_midi_celebrates_years (244 words)

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