Understanding Basic MIDI

Understanding Basic MIDI This article was designed to give you a basic understanding of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), and to leave you with a brief knowledge of it's past. It is a tool widely used today in many varied recording or live preformance situations. MIDI is what allows electronic musical instruments to communicate with each other to preform certain tasks. These tasks may include starting or stopping a song, changing the voice of …

…be the start to a much more elaborate and powerful setup. The advantages of being able to change things like tempo and transposition are very useful. If you were recording it on analog tape or digitally, you would need to preform the part again. Here you can manipulate the data as you please. The only other peices necessary are a modest stereo system (heck, headphones would even work) and you'll be jammin in no time!