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Understanding MIDI: A Painless Tutorial on Midi Format

Sound 2018-01-24 v1 Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

A short overview demystifying the midi audio format is presented. The goal is to explain the file structure and how the instructions are used to produce a music signal, both in the case of monophonic signals as for polyphonic signals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.05322,
  title  = {Understanding MIDI: A Painless Tutorial on Midi Format},
  author = {H. M. de Oliveira and R. C. de Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05322},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures

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