Definition of Musical instrument digital interface

1. Noun. A standard protocol for communication between electronic musical instruments and computers.

Exact synonyms: Midi
Generic synonyms: Communications Protocol, Protocol

Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Instrument Digital Interface

musical accompaniment
musical agraphia
musical alexia
musical arrangement
musical bow
musical box
musical boxes
musical chairs
musical comedy
musical composition
musical drama
musical genre
musical group
musical harmony
musical instrument
musical instrument digital interface (current term)
musical instruments
musical interval
musical intervals
musical mode
musical murmur
musical notation
musical note
musical octave
musical organisation
musical organization
musical perception
musical performance
musical phrase

Literary usage of Musical instrument digital interface

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Teachers & Technology: Making the Connection by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... play the "game" of recognizing the Students can "play" various instruments on the computer with MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) software, ..."

2. Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment by William S. Brockman (2001)
"Others rely on specialized applications for their areas of research, such as programs for speech analysis, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) ..."

3. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"Their "Music-Aide" program takes standard MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) input and represents the musical phrases produced by the musician ..."

4. A Survey of Distributed Multimedia: Research, Standards and Products by Chris Adie (1993)
"An FTP archive site for this list has been created on debra.dgbt.doc.ca:/pub/dvi. Name: MIDI Description: musical instrument digital interface ..."

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