MIDI

File Format
Name	MIDI
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music MIDI
Extension(s)	.mid, .midi
MIME Type(s)	audio/midi audio/mid audio/x-midi audio/m application/x-midi
LoCFDD	fdd000102 fdd000119
PRONOM	x-fmt/230

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is an industry specification that permits digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. The MIDI Specification was published in August 1983.

The MIDI file format is known as SMF (Standard MIDI Format).

"Black MIDI" is a style of MIDI music that has notes so densely placed that a graphical rendition has large patches of solid black.

Alternative formats

As well as the standard MIDI specification, a number of (often proprietary) MIDI clones and variants have been created over the years. These include:

• Compact MIDI
• GMD
• HMI
• HMP
• HMZ
• KAR
• MIDS
• MIZ
• MSS
• RIFF MIDI
• Scalable Polyphony MIDI
• Synthetic Music Application Format
• Doom MUS

External links

• Wikipedia:MIDI
• Standard MIDI-File Format Spec. 1.1
• The Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification Available for purchase from MMA (MIDI Manufacturers Association)
• The MIDI Specification Not the official specification, but an adaptation.
• MIDI Sequence Data, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats
• Standard MIDI File Format, from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats
• Brief Overview of Proposed General MIDI Level 1 Spec
• MIDI Sample Dump Standard
• The USENET MIDI Primer
• Inventor of MIDI willingly gave idea away to establish it as a standard
• The impossible music of black MIDI
• Black MIDI songs will kill your brain and your computer