MIDI Forum

Bavi is spot on with his Hall 2 explanation. Many useful Yamaha documents and other resources can still be found on Jørgen Sørensen's excellent site...

Hi Jason, Yep! the recent posts is useful, I use that al the time. Years ago I started writing some MIDI tutorials which are still there at midi-t...

To be honest the first forum (which I think was PHBB based) was a really good one, very active, with many users, and one I contributed a lot to starti...

Here's an update.

A bit late to the party, but here goes. This has to be one of the strangest files I've seen in my 35+ years of messing about with MIDI! First of...

The pitch is customizable in Scala (.scl files) tables. In other words, much like tuning a piano, you have to set it up to the temperament you want...

Exactly! I use the full version of the Garritan Yamaha CFX Concert Grand, but there is or used to be, a 'lite' version at a lower cost (this at lea...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. As far as I am aware there are currently no MIDI keyboards being sold which implement the MIDI 2.0 standards, ...

Jens, You are probably asking this question in the wrong place. This forum is about the MIDI standards and how they are supposed to be implemented...

Just a brief note about harpsichord construction. Traditionally they have a smaller range than a piano, spanning maybe four to five octaves only. Ea...

Ah! My mistake, I stand corrected. Yes, it's four bytes fixed length, not variable. So, theoretically up to 4,294,967,295 ... per Mtrk. Quite big ...

As for the theoretical maximum file size of a MIDI 1.0 Standard MIDI File... The number of tracks is stored as two bytes, so the maximum number of ...

From recollection, I think the last movement of Mahler's second symphony was pretty large at around 650 kilobytes. But there may well be bigger files...

Just login in the normal way using the login button in the top right hand corner. Then download. It works fine for me. All the specifications are av...

The mhhd and mhtr commands are part of a Yamaha style file specification, not a standard MIDI message.. There's a bit about them on the Yamaha Musi...