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Such hardware-specific extensions are to be avoided in MIDI files uploaded to Wikipedia. If your sound card does not support MIDI – or on OS X 10.8+ –, free cross-platform software such as MuseScore and TiMidity is able to play these files after you have downloaded them to your computer, or convert them to other sound formats.
The spread of MIDI on home computers was largely facilitated by Roland Corporation's MPU-401, released in 1984, as the first MIDI-equipped sound card, capable of MIDI sound processing [42] and sequencing. [43] [44] After Roland sold MPU sound chips to other sound card manufacturers, [42] it established a universal standard MIDI-to-PC interface ...
Korg Triton rack-mountable sound module. A sound module is an electronic musical instrument without a human-playable interface such as a piano-style musical keyboard.Sound modules have to be operated using an externally connected device, which is often a MIDI controller, of which the most common type is the musical keyboard.
MIDI keyboards lacking an onboard sound module cannot produce sounds themselves, however some models of MIDI keyboards contain both a MIDI controller and sound module. When it is used as a MIDI controller, MIDI information on keys or buttons the performer has pressed is sent to a receiving device capable of creating sound through modeling ...
MIDI allows multiple instruments to be played from a single controller (often a keyboard, as pictured here), which makes stage setups much more portable. This system fits into a single rack case, but prior to the advent of MIDI. it would have required four separate, heavy full-size keyboard instruments, plus outboard mixing and effects units.
A Roland keytar, keyboard MIDI controller designed to be worn with a shoulder strap during performance.The keytar does not produce any musical sounds by itself. As a MIDI controller, it only sends data about which keys or buttons are pressed to a MIDI-compatible sound module or synthesizer, which then produces the sounds.
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was created in 1982, as an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments (synthesizers, drum machines), computers and other electronic equipment (MIDI controllers, sound cards, samplers) to communicate and synchronize with each other.
Sound modules that do not fit into other categories. CBX-T3 — General MIDI and other modes supported (same as TG100, but with LEDs instead of LCD) FB-01 — (1986) 4op FM/8 multi-timbral sound module, suitable for CX5M system. a forerunner of TG & MU series; FS1R (1998) — FM/Formant synthesis; TG100 (1991) — General MIDI sound module [38]