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1
Q
What does MIDI stand for?
A
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
2
Q
What is MIDI?
A
A communications protocol that electronic musical instruments use to interact with each other
3
Q
What type of transmission does MIDI use?
A
8 - bit asynchronous serial transmission
4
Q
What does an MIDI file contain?
A
A list of commands instructing a device on how to produce a particular sound or music note
5
Q
What does an MIDI command contain?
A
A specific sequence of bytes: the status byte , velocity byte and pitch byte
