Midi: Musical Instrument Digital Interface

[last updated: 2019-11-13]
Audio file formats
Audacity
Sonic-pi
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• Protocol and equipment for connecting a computer to an electronic musical instrument.
• Digital Keyboard:
mine is a Concertmate 1100
• USB-Midi interface:
Roland Um-One mk2
from Sweetwater
• Software:
• First thing needed is a "sequencer" to output the midi file to the keyboard...
  Sequencers are programs that keep track of what sound to play and when.
• Jack:
  Not exactly sure what Jack is, though it appears to be a program/module in the kernel
  and some sequencers require it (eg. Qtractor).
  Also, Adafruit says it's not practical to run it on a rPi.
• Sequencers:
  (go to:) Sonic-pi: included with rPi distro
  (link to:) MuseE
  Qtractor
  (link to:) Rosegarden
  (link to:) seq24 (works on rPi)
  seq42
  Radium
  (link to:) Non-sequencer (works on rPi, though does use Jack, so see above note)
  MidiEditor
  Musagi (works on rPi?)
  LMMS
• Trackers:
  Again not sure exactly what these do, but some form is apparently needed
  to successfully use an rPi:
• MilkyTracker:
  see: (link to:) Adafruit project
• Other Stuff:
• Music notation software - (go to:) MuseScore:
  (link to:) MuseScore
• (link to:) Free Music Samples:

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