by Flash, Wednesday 19 December 2007 à 12:48, Categories: MIDI 101
Back in the 1970’s and ’80’s, pioneering home computing machines such as the Tandy Color Computer (COCO) had built-in sound. You could program simple tunes with the extended BASIC language. I remember coding Tchaikovsky’s 1812… more »
by Flash, Sunday 14 October 2007 à 10:06, Categories: MIDI 101
Why Would a Guitarist Want to Know about MIDI?
By Mike Furlong
Because there are MIDI guitars! And there are MIDI interface attachments for regular guitars. You can make totally new sounds, change your existing sounds, or add instrumentation you never… more »
To get the real power out of the MIDI protocol for composing and reproducing music, you need additional software. A MIDI file is simply a file of all the commands needed to play a certain sequence of music. A PC can store these and then transmit them to… more »
by Flash, Sunday 19 December 2004 à 13:02, Categories: MIDI 101
So what is this MIDI that started it all? MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI is a hardware/software combination. The hardware is a MIDI cable. The MIDI cable looks like a 5-pin cable, but it is not an ordinary 5-pin cable. It is… more »
by Flash, Sunday 10 August 2003 à 12:45, Categories: MIDI 101
Before we talk about what MIDI is, let’s talk about what MIDI is not. MIDI is not a word…it is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. When you see it spelled as midi, or midifile, the author is either a bad typist, or really… more »
