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MIDI
music technology
Also known as: musical instrument digital interface
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Arts & Culture
- In full:
- musical instrument digital interface
- Related Topics:
- music synthesizer
- music workstation
- interface
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Apr. 2, 2024, 10:09 AM ET (TechCrunch)
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MIDI, technology standard allowing electronic musical instruments to communicate with one another and with computers. By the beginning of the 1980s, affordable digital synthesizer keyboards offering a wide range of instrument sounds and effects were widely available. Because the myriad of different computer languages created by manufacturers to control instruments limited interactivity, an industry working group convened to develop a universal, royalty-free standard. The first synthesizers using MIDI debuted in 1983. MIDI comprises a set of defined instructions, or MIDI messages, telling a compatible instrument which notes to play, how hard to strike them, with what effects (such as vibrato ...(100 of 324 words)