What's MIDI?


Book Description

Questions about MIDI? This book has all the answers! Understanding the language that allows musical instruments to interface digitally is crucial for today's players, and this handy guide is the perfect place to start. What's MIDI? lays out all the essentials without bogging down newcomers in techno-talk. Possibly the only book on the subject you'll ever need!




The MIDI Manual


Book Description

The comprehensive reference on MIDI, fully revised and updated.




How MIDI Works


Book Description

A beginners guide to MIDI, sequencing & digital audio recording with chapter summaries and practice exams.




Modern MIDI


Book Description

In the last five years, the environment in which the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) specification works and the tools that communicate via MIDI have changed dramatically. Modern MIDI: Sequencing and Performing Using Traditional and Mobile Tools gives you all the tools you need to properly and effectively use MIDI in a modern setting, while still incorporating vintage MIDI gear. Exploring typical workflows and techniques for both the studio and the performing environment, this book helps you navigate the changes that mobile computing has made to the way the music producers and engineers work with MIDI. If you’re a MIDI user seeking to increase your efficiency and productivity while still gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of MIDI, or a music professional looking to incorporate your mobile devices into your creative process, this is the book for you. Modern MIDI shows you how to implement the necessary components to use MIDI on your iPad, Android phone, or laptop.




The Musician's Guide to MIDI


Book Description

Since its appearance in 1983, MIDI has become the universal communications standard for musical information. However, the MIDI language isn't easy to master. This book's comprehensive tutorial approach removes the mystery with an in-depth examination that takes the user from basic concepts to sophisticated techniques. Covers every major feature of the MIDI standard and targets the most likely users of MIDI products--instrumentalists who create music electronically. Includes products overviews.




Mind Over MIDI


Book Description

For musicians of all levels, an in-depth guide to the creative applications and theory of the musical instrument digital instrument. Knowledge and understanding of MIDI has become essential for the modern musician. In performance, composition, and recording, MIDI has made it possible to create synthesizer or computer setups consisting of any number of keyboards, strings, drums etc. Mind Over MIDI presents a practical introduction to this crucial new technology, including: what MIDI does * data transmission * tutorial * channels * modes * controllers * computers * interfaces * software * sequencers * accessories * SMPTE and MIDI * MIDI systems * and more. This book is an invaluable addition to the essential literature of modern electronic music-making. Diagrams and illustrations throughout.




Sound Engineer's Pocket Book


Book Description

A handy source of essential data that every sound technician needs. Whether you are a professional sound engineer, responsible for broadcast or studio recording, or a student on a music technology or sound recording course, you will find this book authoritative and easily accessible. Adapted from the comprehensive volume, the Audio Engineer's Reference Book (now in its second edition), this pocket-sized reference has been fully revised to cover the very latest technology connected with sound: Noise measurement Acoustics Microphones Loudspeakers Mixing equipment CDs, DAT, MIDI, MiniDisc Telephony ISDN Digital interfacing Ultrasonics This second edition also features: Substantial revisions of chapters on radio microphone frequencies, digital audio tape, and audio measurements. An extended list of further reading.




Mad Skills


Book Description

A cultural history of MIDI (the Musical Instrument Digital Interface), one of the most revolutionary and transformative technologies in the history of music. A history of electronic music that goes way beyond the Moog. Part rigorous history, part insightful commentary, and part memoir, Mad Skills tells the story behind MIDI, aka the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, through the twentieth century's kaleidoscopic lens. Guiding us across one hundred years of musical instruments, and the music made with them, Mad Skills recounts the technical and creative innovations that led to the making of the most vital, long-standing, ubiquitous, and yet invisible music technology of our time.




Maximum MIDI


Book Description

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) connects sound cards, musical instruments, and computers in order to make music. MIDI-based music programs can play music, teach music theory and technique, provide games with exciting scores, and allow musicians to record, edit, play, and print compositions. This book is the programmer's definitive source of information for developing MIDI-based Windows 95 applications.




MIDI for the Professional


Book Description

(Music Sales America). Get the most out of your MIDI equipment with this in-depth technical information and expert advice. The practical examples, illustrations, and plain language included in this book help you to resolve problems, experiment with new ways to use your equipment, and make informed decisions when it's time to expand.