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Musical Performance Information: |
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Piano Keyboard key presses and releases |
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“instrument” selection (by number) |
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sustain pedal, switches |
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continuous controls: volume pedal, pitch bend,
aftertouch |
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very compact
(human gesture < 100Hz bandwidth) |
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Point-to-point connections: |
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MIDI IN, OUT, THRU |
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Channels |
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No time stamps |
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(almost) everything happens in real time |
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Asynchronous serial,
8-bit bytes+start+stop bits,
31.25K baud = 1MHz/32 |
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MThd <length> <header data> |
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MTrk <length> <track data> |
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MTrk <length> <track data> |
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