MIDI is
everywhere around you...
About MIDI -
Making Music with MIDI
- MIDI Controllers -
MIDI Products -
MIDI Glossary
-
MIDI Polyphonic
Expression (MPE)
Play,
Create, Learn... it's all MIDI
... it's in
musical instruments, computers, cell phones, and many other
products from well known companies like Microsoft, Apple,
Nokia, Sony, Yamaha, & hundreds more consumer products
companies.
Most
popular recorded music is written and performed using
MIDI-equipped electronic keyboards (aka "synthesizers"). Much
music is also written on computers using "Sequencers" and/or
"Digital Audio workstations". Other MIDI-equipped musical
instruments may also be used, including digital drums, digital
guitars, wind instruments, and more. (Products)
Your
computer probably has the ability to play MIDI files using
either built-in hardware or a software synthesizer that
responds to MIDI messages, and with an appropriate adapter
your computer can be connected to other MIDI-equipped products
so you can use MIDI to help you learn, play, create and enjoy
music. (Making
Music with MIDI)
Even film and TV
scores are usually created on MIDI instruments, and with
advances in digital sampling and synthesis technologies making
digital instruments sound ever more realistic, the orchestra
playing behind that big-screen block buster is more likely to
be the product of a few MIDI devices than dozens of acoustic
instruments.
Besides music
creation and playback described above, MIDI has some other
interesting and popular uses. MIDI Show Control is a different
set of MIDI messages used for controlling rides at theme parks
as well as for operating themed events such as are found
outside many Las Vegas casinos. And many people have developed
unique products that use MIDI.
And if you own a
cell phone that has "polyphonic ring-tones" (billions do) it's
probably got a MIDI synthesizer built-in (or something very
much like MIDI, depending on the manufacturer). Ring-tones are
a very popular add-on business for cellular providers, and
many people use MIDI to make their own ring-tones and put them
on their phones.
MIDI is a
trademark of MIDI Manufacturers Association Incorporated.
About MIDI -
Making Music with MIDI
- MIDI Controllers -
MIDI Products -
MIDI Glossary
-
MIDI Polyphonic
Expression (MPE)
