MIDI

MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard. It describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors. It connect a large variety of electronic musical instruments, digital devices for playing, editing, and recording music.  

A MIDI recording is not an audio signal. It is more like a piano roll, identifying the pitch, start and stop time and other properties of each individual note.

The personal computer market stabilized at the same time,MIDI INTERFACES FOR THE IBM PC , Electronic Musician, September 1990 popularizing the MIDI format, and helped computers become a viable option for music production.Manning, Peter. Electronic and Computer Music. 1985. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Print.link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/MIDI_LOGO.svg/220px-MIDI_LOGO.svg.png|thumb|Logo of MIDI (from the MIDI Manufacturers Association)|156x156px
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 Other websites 

 The MIDI Association

Category:Electronic music