Quotes About MIDI

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any time, and one of those is the key-based percussion instrument.

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

Midi is my hobby.

MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.

Now time, afternoon time, which in the Midi is as elemental as air and light, expanded and rolled billowingly outwards across the rest of the day, and upwards to the vaults of the cobalt sky, freeing everyone in its delicious sprawl from their obligations.

I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

There has to be a minimum amount of Off time between one MIDI byte and the next: a "resting" interval of 1/31,250 second

Since the MIDI-DIN bit rate is 31,250 bits per second, and there are 10 bits in a byte, the MIDI byte rate is 3,125 bytes per second.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart