MIDI Composition
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Posted: 8/1/1998
Updated: 8/28/2017 |
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| How to compose music using MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface. |
| Estimated reading time: 7 minute(s) (1513 words) |
The first thing you need is something
to play/compose the music on. This will be a musical instrument with a
MIDI connection. MIDI stands for "Musical Instrument Digital Interface". It is a
jack (or, more likely, a pair of jacks) usually located in an unobtrusive spot
on the instrument. The most common MIDI instruments are keyboards. These are the
modern evolution of the old electronic organs people used to buy. They can mimic
upwards of one hundred different musical instruments, ranging from the obvious
(piano and organ) to the non-obvious (guitar and guitar fret noises, string
sections and horns) to the exotic (sitar, bird tweets, bottle flutes). Depending
on the quality (and age) of the digital keyboard, the instruments may sound
phony or uncannily realistic.