Video Plug: Seriously, What is MIDI?
This is a question I get asked kind of often (mostly by guitar players and drummers) and honestly it’s hard to answer simply. It often leads me into long conversations involving control messages and on/off signals blah blah blah…
But this video seems to be the perfect intro to MIDI as a concept. Check it out.
Found via Synthtopia via SynthGnosis.
“Midi stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Midi is not sound whatsoever, rather, it is a signal. That is one misconception about it. In this video I’ll explain the basics of it for those who don’t know what it is and what it can do for you.Midi is simply sending a signal to your computer or some other musical device. Since it’s dealing with signals, just think of a midi controller being like a videogame console controller (SNES!) that sends a signal when you press a button on the pad, or being just like the keyboard (typing) that’s sitting right in front of you…”
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