You don't even have to control an instrument - MIDI can be used to control lights, or anything else.
#Running in the 90s synthesia free
Users of MIDI are free to use any instrument on channel 1. General MIDI was specified later than MIDI itself. This is called General MIDI ( Wikipedia). Parameter 1 is modulation, 7 is volume, 64 is sustain, etc.Channel 1 is piano, 34 is electric bass, etc."Tell channel 3 to set parameter 1 to value 231".MIDI is just a stream of instructions, like:
Although in the beginning of 2015 the MIDI Manufacturers Association announced that there is a new MIDI "HD Protocol" under development. One time we hooked it up to a Kurzweil K2000 and it was kinda like having a live band playing the Doom II music for you while playing the game.Īs a protocol and file format, MIDI has been surprisingly adept and has required little revision over the last 30+ years. It was even possible to hook up MIDI cables from your computer to an external synthesizer and use the sound synthesis there. Depending on what sound card you had the game would sound better or worse because of the quality of the instrument patches that your sound card included.
#Running in the 90s synthesia Patch
It all depends on the patch set you have or the instrument that you've hooked up the MIDI sequencer or controller too.Īn example of how the sound quality can be different is back in the 90s there was a game called Doom II which used MIDI files for the music. Likewise I could give you a set of my singing for every instrument patch and it would sound awful. Its possible to even hook up a MIDI connection to a machine that played physical acoustic instruments and that could sound great. Likewise, the way music sounds when played via the MIDI specification is up to the quality of the patch sounds. The midi data is like the piano roll, the sound you hear is from the physical sound produced when the hammers strike the strings. The concept is very similar to how an old player piano works. MIDI is only a specification for what instrument (patch) to use, what notes to play, how long and loud to play a note and other things like tempo, time signature and text lyrics.
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