CYBERMIDI MUSIC and MIDI Blog

By Usha Rani In reality MIDI files are very petite since they use your sound card’s built-in instruments for crafting the sounds. The problem is that most sound cards don’t have any decent sounds to start with, plus no two sound cards sound alike… more »

As a professional MIDI programmer, my job is to take a song and transform it into MIDI data. In short, you are taking all the parts: the chords, the notes, the drums, the dynamics, and reproducing them. As one example, a solo performer can now play… more »

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 »

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 »

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 »