MIDI Forum

A useful comment, Eddie. I think you've hit the nail on the head. I've done some further research and it would appear that Wing Commander was writ...

Hi Angus and Geoff, An interesting problem which I've just started to take a look at.:) The first thing was to load it into a program other than S...

Well, this one works just fine in my browser (Mozilla FireFox):

Dear Frustrated, (sounds like an agony aunt!) 😉 I've been using non Mac equipment successfully since about 1988. Additionally, I've been using u...

Download the complete MIDI specification, in pdf form, from the specs, and take another look. 104 pages of information on MIDI machine control are ...

Yes, the scene number (as understood by a human being) is 45, but how would that be represented as a hexadecimal number to be transmitted? So, the...

To understand this you will need to understand the structure of the MIDI message "Program Change". At the very top of this page you will find a menu ...

May I suggest you take a look at a free program called Sforzando by a company called Plogue. It's herebr /> The program can play back samples of you...

May I suggest looking among the specifications, available to download via the "specs" menu item, and get three documents, in pdf format, the GM1, the ...

Perhaps your question was really what is the difference between CC7 (Volume) and CC1 (Expression). Perhaps you meant what's the difference betwee...

It seems that the MIDI community, i.e. many sequencing program makers or DAWs if you prefer, uses C3 to denote middle C. This avoids having to use th...

Well, Finale is just fine for creating the music you want to hear from a score, the only others that may offer the features that you need are Sibelius...

It's probably fairly safe to assume that the Yamaha lead isn't where the fault lies. After all, Yamaha has been involved at the leading edge of MIDI ...

It's only my guess (like you, not being a member of the MMA), but I suspect the reason is commercial. The MMA is a club for "manufacturers". I sus...

Forgive me if I misunderstand your proposal but how do I then ... Start all notes of a played chord "on pitch", then modify just one note of the ch...