About MIDI [15 mn de lecture - paru le 11/8/2006 4:41:47 AM - Public : Expert]

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Christian FINEL Elève-Ingénieur Supinfo Paris Promotion SUPINFO 2007    Lui écrire    Tous les projets de cet auteur    Le mini-CV de cet auteur

Resume

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It first appears in 1982 following an agreement among manufacturers and developper of electronic musical instruments.

The purpose was to provide a common set of hardware connectors and digital codes in their instrument design.

In 1983 the MIDI 1.0 is released, the specification are released by the International Midi association regrouping : Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kawai and Sequencial Circuits. All of those came out with MIDI capable instrument this year.

More precisely, MIDI's purpose is provide a set of command which allow to control instrument of different manufacturer. It allows mainly to control note duration, volume variation, tempo, sustain.

Sommaire

• Introduction
• 1. A common control language
• 1.1. Connectivity
• 1.2.Music in a packet
• 1.3. Musical networks : it exists !
• 1.3. Futur
• 2. Do you speak MIDI ? Or the MIDI messages
• 2.1. Channel Voice messages
• 2.2. Channel Mode Messages
• 2.3. System Common and System Real Time Messages
• 2.4. The System Exclusive Messages
• Conclusion