MIDI Forum

You are correct that in the MIDI file format, it is important to be able to keep track of how many bytes each message takes. Be aware that the allo...

I've only played around with Web MIDI a little bit, but I believe Chrome on Windows has a bug: When a tab uses Web MIDI, it will use all the MIDI inpu...

In the MIDI Tuning (Updated Specification) PDF file you linked to, the documentation for the 03 dump request says "The receiving device will send back...

As Pedro mentioned, in the MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification PDF, MIDI modes are described on PDF pages 25 to 29 (printed page numbers 20 to 24). Howeve...

In the file "John Mellencamp - Lonely old night 3.mid", the Channel 3 modulation, Channel 4 modulation, and Channel 5 Program Change are getting reset...

The two formats I've played around with are MIDI Files with Lyric events and MIDI/KAR files with KAR format Text events. LYRIC EVENTS The Stan...

Looking over the manuals (), I don't see a way to control the output level of a single operator via a MIDI message. The Control Change messages the...

These are two different representations of the same 28-bit value (28 one bits). FFFFFFF represents the value in the continuous range from 0 to FFFF...

The Continue command is described in the Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification Document (1996) starting on PDF page 62.

It's unclear exactly how the "notated 32nd notes per MIDI quarter note" value was intended to behave. I haven't yet found any software that uses it fo...

I understand the problem is resolved, but in case Geoff or anyone else is curious about Sequencer Specific meta events... A Sequencer Specific meta...

As Eddie Lotter said, many MIDI files often put the end of a note and the beginning of the next note at exactly the same time. If you send notes of th...

WHAT IS MIDI CLOCK? Imagine you have two MIDI devices, one that you want to play prerecorded melody notes and another that can play an internal dr...

On this website, go to Specs -> The MIDI 1.0 Specification -> The Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification, then download the following documents and ...

Pitch Bend Sensitivity is a "Registered Parameter" -- it is Registered Parameter Number (RPN) zero. To change a Registered Parameter, you send four...