Wat (wie) is Musical Instrument Digital Interface - definitie
![A [[sound module]], which requires an external controller (e.g., a MIDI keyboard) to trigger its sounds. These devices are highly portable, but their limited programming interface requires computer-based tools for comfortable access to their sound parameters.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Korg 05RW front.jpg?width=200 "A [[sound module]], which requires an external controller (e.g., a MIDI keyboard) to trigger its sounds. These devices are highly portable, but their limited programming interface requires computer-based tools for comfortable access to their sound parameters.")
![MIDI logo from the [[MIDI Manufacturers Association]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MIDI LOGO.svg?width=200 "MIDI logo from the [[MIDI Manufacturers Association]]")
![Yamaha's [[Tenori-on]] controller allows arrangements to be built by "drawing" on its array of lighted buttons. The resulting arrangements can be played back using its internal sounds or external sound sources, or recorded in a computer-based sequencer.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tenori-on.jpg?width=200 "Yamaha's [[Tenori-on]] controller allows arrangements to be built by \"drawing\" on its array of lighted buttons. The resulting arrangements can be played back using its internal sounds or external sound sources, or recorded in a computer-based sequencer.")
![A woman playing the [[đàn bầu]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Musicians from Hanoi.jpg?width=200 "A woman playing the [[đàn bầu]].")
![Man on the right is playing the [[đàn đáy]] which is an important part of [[ca trù]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ca trù performance.jpg?width=200 "Man on the right is playing the [[đàn đáy]] which is an important part of [[ca trù]]")
![A lady playing the [[đàn tranh]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cach-choi-dan-tranh-150714.jpg?width=200 "A lady playing the [[đàn tranh]].")
![Man is playing the [[đàn nguyệt]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr - dalbera - Huong Thanh Trio, (musée Guimet, Paris) (1).jpg?width=200 "Man is playing the [[đàn nguyệt]].")
![The man in the centre is playing the [[đàn nhị]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan nhi- ken- trong.jpg?width=200 "The man in the centre is playing the [[đàn nhị]].")
![The man is playing the [[sáo]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr - dalbera - Huong Thanh Trio, (musée Guimet, Paris) (5).jpg?width=200 "The man is playing the [[sáo]].")
Wikipedia
MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music. The American specification originates in the paper Universal Synthesizer Interface published by Dave Smith and Chet Wood of Sequential Circuits at the 1981 Audio Engineering Society conference in New York City, but the idea was initially from the Acetone,Roland and Korg founder Ikutaro Kakehashi.
A single MIDI cable can carry up to sixteen channels of MIDI data, each of which can be routed to a separate device. Each interaction with a key, button, knob or slider is converted into a MIDI event, which specifies musical instructions, such as a note's pitch, timing and loudness. One common MIDI application is to play a MIDI keyboard or other controller and use it to trigger a digital sound module (which contains synthesized musical sounds) to generate sounds, which the audience hears produced by a keyboard amplifier. MIDI data can be transferred via MIDI or USB cable, or recorded to a sequencer or digital audio workstation to be edited or played back.
A file format that stores and exchanges the data is also defined. Advantages of MIDI include small file size, ease of modification and manipulation and a wide choice of electronic instruments and synthesizer or digitally sampled sounds.: 4 A MIDI recording of a performance on a keyboard could sound like a piano or other keyboard instrument; however, since MIDI records the messages and information about their notes and not the specific sounds, this recording could be changed to many other sounds, ranging from synthesized or sampled guitar or flute to full orchestra.
Before the development of MIDI, electronic musical instruments from different manufacturers could generally not communicate with each other. This meant that a musician could not, for example, plug a Roland keyboard into a Yamaha synthesizer module. With MIDI, any MIDI-compatible keyboard (or other controller device) can be connected to any other MIDI-compatible sequencer, sound module, drum machine, synthesizer, or computer, even if they are made by different manufacturers.
MIDI technology was standardized in 1983 by a panel of music industry representatives, and is maintained by the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA). All official MIDI standards are jointly developed and published by the MMA in Los Angeles, and the MIDI Committee of the Association of Musical Electronics Industry (AMEI) in Tokyo. In 2016, the MMA established The MIDI Association (TMA) to support a global community of people who work, play, or create with MIDI.
