HMI

File Format
Name	HMI
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music HMI
Extension(s)	.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

Software

Conversion

• HMI2MID (HMI to MIDI)

Playback

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

Sample files

• https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/music/TEST.HMI

Links

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

See Also

• HMP