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= MIDI =  . '''[[WikiPedia:MIDI|MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)]]''' is a standard communication protocol thats connects a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related '''[[Sound]]''' devices for playing, editing and recording music. A single MIDI link through a MIDI cable can carry up to sixteen channels of information, each of which can be routed to a separate device or instrument. This could be sixteen different digital instruments, for example.
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You can use [[Timidity]] to easily play MIDI and [[Karaoke|karaoke]] files.
[[http://timidity.sourceforge.net/|Timidity]] is a MIDI and Karaoke (`.kar`) player. [[PackageManagement#Installing.2C_removing.2C_upgrading_software|Install]] the [[DebianPkg:timidity]] and [[DebianPkg:timidity-interfaces-extra]] packages, and run the program with the interface of your choice:

{{{
timidity -ia #text interface
timidity -ig #gtk interface
timidity -ik #tcl/tk interface
}}}
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=== MIDI systems === == MIDI systems ==
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MIDI playback and redording is supported by the following systems and sound servers: MIDI playback and recording is supported by the following systems and sound servers:
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 * [[ALSA]]  * [[ALSA]], [[AlsaMidi]], [[MidiHardware]]
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 * http://unixmidiplugin.tripod.com/midiSamplePage.html - MIDI test page
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI - MIDI - Wikipedia

 * WikiPedia:MIDI - MIDI - Wikipedia
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== Wiki pages ==

'''List of wiki pages about MIDI software, the MIDI format, hardware setup or configuration:'''

<<FullSearch(category:CategoryMidi)>>

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CategorySound CategoryMidi CategoryFileFormat CategorySound CategoryFileFormat

Translation(s): English - Français - Italiano

  • MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a standard communication protocol thats connects a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related Sound devices for playing, editing and recording music. A single MIDI link through a MIDI cable can carry up to sixteen channels of information, each of which can be routed to a separate device or instrument. This could be sixteen different digital instruments, for example.

Software

For a full list of MIDI software, see the Multimedia page.

MIDI file MIME types are audio/x-midi, audio/x-mid, and audio/midi. The file extensions are .mid, .midi.

Timidity is a MIDI and Karaoke (.kar) player. Install the timidity and timidity-interfaces-extra packages, and run the program with the interface of your choice:

timidity -ia #text interface
timidity -ig #gtk interface
timidity -ik #tcl/tk interface

The fluid-soundfont-gs fluid-soundfont-gm vlc-plugin-fluidsynth packages allow you to play MIDI files in any Gstreamer-based media player or VLC. Right-click a .mid or .kar file in your FileManager, Open with..., select the /usr/bin/timidy program, and change its command line to '/usr/bin/timidity' -ia

Hardware

See the MidiHardware page to connect a musical instrument to your computer using MIDI.

MIDI systems

MIDI playback and recording is supported by the following systems and sound servers:


CategorySound CategoryFileFormat