midi

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midi - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  midi
      adj 1: used of women's clothing having a hemline at mid-calf;
             "midiskirts"; "wore her dresses midi length" [ant:
             maxi, mini]
      n 1: the southern part of France
      2: a standard protocol for communication between electronic
         musical instruments and computers [syn: musical instrument   digital interface
         , MIDI]

midi - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Musical Instrument Digital Interface
  MIDI
  
     <music, hardware, protocol, file format> (MIDI /mi'-dee/,
     /mee'-dee/) A hardware specification and protocol used to
     communicate note and effect information between synthesisers,
     computers, music keyboards, controllers, and other electronic
     music devices.  It is basically a high-speed serial
     connection with separate connections for MIDI in, MIDI out and
     MIDI through (to allow devices to be chained).
  
     The basic unit of information is a "note on/off" event which
     includes a note number (pitch) and key velocity (loudness).
     There are many other message types for events such as pitch
     bend, patch changes and synthesizer-specific events for
     loading new patches etc.
  
     There is a file format for expressing MIDI data which is like
     a dump of data sent over a MIDI port.
  
     The MIME type "audio/midi" isn't actually registered so it
     should probably be "audio/x-midi".
  
     Filename extension: .mid or .midi
  
     (http://update.uu.se/~vick/Coordinator.html).
  
     Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.music.midi,
     news:alt.music.midi.
  
     (1998-06-27)
  

midi - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  MIDI
         Musical Instruments Digital Interface (MIDI)