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MIDI's introduction coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era and the introduction of samplers and digital synthesizers. [26] The creative possibilities brought about by MIDI technology are credited for helping revive the music industry in the 1980s. [27] MIDI introduced capabilities that transformed the way many musicians work.
General MIDI logo from the MIDI Manufacturers Association. General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. GM was developed by the American MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and the Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) and first published in 1991. The ...
MIDI: 1 MIDI in; 2 MIDI out; DIN sync out; tape sync IO; metronome out Covox Speech Thing: 1987: 8 bit: 7 kHz (Disney Sound Source), up to 44 kHz (CPU speed dependent) PCM: 1 DAC: AdLib: 1987: 64 volume settings / 8 bit: 16 kHz FM synthesizer: 6-voice FM synthesizer, 5 percussion instruments Roland MT-32: 1987: 16 bit: 32 kHz MIDI synthesizer
Korg Triton rack-mountable sound module. A sound module is an electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface such as a piano-style musical keyboard.Sound modules have to be operated using an externally connected device, which is often a MIDI controller, of which the most common type is the musical keyboard.
Korg Taktile USB MIDI Controller Keyboard - with PC - 2014 NAMM Show, one style of MIDI keyboard based on the piano user interface. A MIDI keyboard or controller keyboard is typically a piano-style electronic musical keyboard, often with other buttons, wheels and sliders, used as a MIDI controller for sending Musical Instrument Digital Interface commands over a USB or MIDI 5-pin cable to other ...
MIDI includes System Exclusive messages that are extensions of the MIDI format implemented by MIDI manufacturers. Some of the extensions, the "Universal" ones, are a set of the same functions that different manufacturers can implement differently in detail. Some of them are Non Real Time, with no reliable delivery timing. Others are Real Time ...
It is possible to play MIDI files on Wikipedia, but rather than relying on the user's browser and operating system to support MIDI files, it relies on an extension that internally converts the MIDI instructions into a digital audio file that is playable on most browsers, and displays an audio player.
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