4.5.6.8 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)

Question 1

MIDI

Answer 1

Used with electronic musical instruments which can be connected to computers.

Question 2

MIDI Storing Sound

Answer 2

It stores sound as a series of event messages, each represent an event in a piece of music.
~ thought as a series of instructions used to recreate a piece of music

Question 3

Event Messages Information

Answer 3

~ The duration of a note
~ Instrument which a note is played
~ How loud a note is (volume)
~ If note should be sustained

Question 4

Advantages of MIDI

Answer 4

~ Easy manipulation of music without loss of clarity
~ Instruments which notes sound can be changed
~ Notes can be transposed
~ Duration of notes can be altered
~ Smaller in size than sampled audio files
~ Lossless no information lost

Question 5

Disadvantages of MIDI

Answer 5

~Can’t be used for storing speech, less realistic sound than sampled