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    MIDI Basics

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    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard that allows different music hardware devices to communicate. MIDI uses control signals to change settings and send note messages. For example, a MIDI keyboard sends note messages to a synthesizer to play sounds, and a MIDI pedal uses control messages to adjust the volume. MIDI messages are sent via cable and must use the same channel to connect devices. Common MIDI messages include program changes to select presets, controller messages to control properties like volume, and note messages to play notes.

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    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard that allows different music hardware devices to communicate. MIDI uses control signals to change settings and send note messages. For example, a MIDI keyboard sends note messages to a synthesizer to play sounds, and a MIDI pedal uses control messages to adjust the volume. MIDI messages are sent via cable and must use the same channel to connect devices. Common MIDI messages include program changes to select presets, controller messages to control properties like volume, and note messages to play notes.

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    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard that allows different music hardware devices to communicate. MIDI uses control signals to change settings and send note messages. For example, a MIDI keyboard sends note messages to a synthesizer to play sounds, and a MIDI pedal uses control messages to adjust the volume. MIDI messages are sent via cable and must use the same channel to connect devices. Common MIDI messages include program changes to select presets, controller messages to control properties like volume, and note messages to play notes.

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    MIDI Basics

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    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard that allows different music hardware devices to communicate. MIDI uses control signals to change settings and send note messages. For example, a MIDI keyboard sends note messages to a synthesizer to play sounds, and a MIDI pedal uses control messages to adjust the volume. MIDI messages are sent via cable and must use the same channel to connect devices. Common MIDI messages include program changes to select presets, controller messages to control properties like volume, and note messages to play notes.

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    MIDI Basics

    MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard developed some years ago to
    allow music related hardware made by different companies to work together. MIDI gear
    is typically used to do a few basic things:

    A. Send control signals to change settings on music hardware


    B. Send signals to place actual music notes

    Volume control is a simple example for the first. A MIDI pedal sends control messages
    over the MIDI cable that another MIDI hardware unit receives, and then changes the
    output volume based on pedal position.

    Keyboard/synthesizer playback is a good example for the second. You press a key on a
    MIDI keyboard. It sends out a MIDI note message. A rack mounted synthesizer is
    connected to the keyboard and then plays the note pressed.

    MIDI data goes from one unit to another hardware unit over a MIDI cable, which
    usually has 5 wires inside. MIDI messages usually are channel based. There are 16
    MIDI channels, and like walkie-talkies, both ends have to be on the same channel for
    things to work.

    MIDI information is send/received in the form of messages. While there are many types
    of MIDI messages, three make up much of what is needed:

    A. Program change messages


    B. Controller messages
    C. Note messages

    Program change messages are typically used to change the effect/patch combination on a
    MIDI unit. Simple examples would be the patch on a keyboard (Piano, organ, strings,
    horn sounds, etc) or effect combinations for a guitar (reverb, distortion, chorus, delay,
    etc).

    Controller messages are used to change the nature of a given patch. The most common
    example here is volume, which is usually controller message #7 (usually referred to as
    CC7). There are over a hundred different controller messages defined which might be
    used by a MIDI unit. Some common controller definitions are shown at:
    http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/cntrlnumb.html

    Note messages are just commands to play a given note, middle C for example on a piano.

    One of the most common uses for MIDI is device control. Guitar players quite often use
    MIDI hardware to control their guitar tone/settings as they play. Program change
    messages are used to select a patch. Controller messages are used to control the output
    volume and vary aspects of a patch (such as Wah-wah, reverb level, distortion on/off,
    etc).

    Many web sites have additional information about MIDI.

    ?? http://www.midi.com/
    ?? http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/
    ?? http://www.northwestern.edu/musicschool/links/projects/midi/expmidiindex.html

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