MIDI - Revision history

RavuAlHemio: /* Alternative formats */ add RIFF MIDS

2025-11-23T17:58:39Z

‎Alternative formats: add RIFF MIDS

RavuAlHemio: reunite alternative format list with its section

2025-11-23T17:57:32Z

reunite alternative format list with its section

Thorsted at 02:25, 18 November 2025

2025-11-18T02:25:17Z

Sembiance: Added sample files

2023-12-28T15:27:31Z

Added sample files

Eiim: Add Kaitai Struct, Wikidata

2023-09-16T15:43:18Z

Add Kaitai Struct, Wikidata

LostinlodosR at 00:24, 17 September 2022

2022-09-17T00:24:20Z

Mu at 21:14, 10 July 2017

2017-07-10T21:14:37Z

Mu at 21:11, 10 July 2017

2017-07-10T21:11:36Z

Mu at 20:58, 10 July 2017

2017-07-10T20:58:47Z

Mu at 20:53, 10 July 2017

2017-07-10T20:53:58Z

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 * [[MSS (MIDI)|MSS]]
 * [[RIFF MIDI]]
 * [[Scalable Polyphony MIDI]]
 * [[Synthetic Music Application Format]]

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 "Black MIDI" is a style of MIDI music that has notes so densely placed that a graphical rendition has large patches of solid black.
 == Alternative formats ==
 As well as the standard MIDI specification, a number of (often proprietary) MIDI clones and variants have been created over the years. These include:
 * [[Compact MIDI]]

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	* [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/ The impossible music of black MIDI]		* [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/ The impossible music of black MIDI]
	* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjSYtKWyX8 Black MIDI songs will kill your brain and your computer]		* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjSYtKWyX8 Black MIDI songs will kill your brain and your computer]
		+	* [https://midimusic.github.io/tech/midispec.html Standard MIDI-File Format Spec. 1.1]

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 * [[Synthetic Music Application Format]]
 * [[Doom MUS]]
 == External links ==

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 '''Musical Instrument Digital Interface''' ('''MIDI''') is an industry specification that permits digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. The MIDI Specification was published in August 1983, and is widely used in electronic music.

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 * The synthesis methods used to realize MIDI and/or General MIDI as audio, which run the whole spectrum from cheesy to non-cheesy.
-Back in the day, high-quality audio files were a bit large to send over the Internet, so nerds would listen to MIDI file renditions instead. Since MIDI itself does not specify how program numbers map to instruments, General MIDI ensures that the Third Eye Blind song you send to your buddy over AOL will not inexplicably have bagpipes in it. Nowadays, MIDI files are used primarily as a storage and interchange format for music producers rather than an consumers, and the interopability of General MIDI is less useful. The ghost of bad General MIDI synthesizers nevertheless persists in the public view of MIDI.
+Back in the day, high-quality audio files were a bit large to send over the Internet, so nerds would listen to MIDI file renditions instead. Since MIDI itself does not specify how program numbers map to instruments, General MIDI ensures that the Third Eye Blind song you send to your buddy over AOL will not inexplicably have bagpipes in it. Nowadays, MIDI files are used primarily as a storage and interchange format for music producers rather than an consumers. In music production, the synthesizer associated with a given MIDI channel is generally known ''a priori'', so the interopability of General MIDI is less useful. The ghost of bad General MIDI synthesizers nevertheless persists in the public view of MIDI.
 "Black MIDI" is a style of MIDI music that has notes so densely placed that a graphical rendition has large patches of solid black.

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 * The core MIDI protocol, which is a real-time messaging format that encodes musical events such as note on/note off, velocity, tempo, controls, etc.
-* The '''General MIDI''' sub-specification of MIDI, which associates MIDI program numbers with a specific bank of 175 instruments such as oboes, pianos, drums, and so forth. This ensures that the Third Eye Blind song you send to your buddy over AOL will not inexplicably have bagpipes in it.
+* The '''General MIDI''' sub-specification of MIDI, which associates MIDI program numbers with a specific bank of 175 instruments such as oboes, pianos, drums, and so forth.
 * The MIDI file format, officially '''SMF''' (Standard MIDI Format), which is simply a score of timed MIDI messages. MIDI files may or may not be intended for interpretation as General MIDI.
 * The synthesis methods used to realize MIDI and/or General MIDI as audio, which run the whole spectrum from cheesy to non-cheesy.
 "Black MIDI" is a style of MIDI music that has notes so densely placed that a graphical rendition has large patches of solid black.