HMI

Description
HMI is a MIDI variant created by Human Machine Interfaces Inc. It supports looping and conditional branching. It was used by Human Machine Interfaces Sound Operating System as the MIDI system and is used in several PC games including The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Carmageddon and Tex Murphy: Overseer.

Information
HMI files begin with the ID string "HMI-MIDISONG061595"


 * Code for an HMI-MIDI converter in the Abuse SDL source
 * HMI processing code, compiles in modern Linux
 * MultimediaWiki - HMI
 * Videogame Music Preservation Foundation Wiki - HMI

Conversion

 * HMI2MID (HMI to MIDI)

Playback

 * Foobar2000 (with MIDI decoder plugin)
 * PlayHMI
 * Winamp

Sample files

 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/music/hmi/

Links

 * The Human Machine Interfaces developer page (Wayback Machine capture as of 1997-02-25)