MIDI : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

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MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. A connector to various MIDI-compatible electronic musical instruments such as keyboard, synthesiser, electronic drum set etc. It allows you to play an instrument and have the computer convert your playing to sheet music, or to automatically play electronic MIDI sheet music, much like a player piano. A sound card usually comes with a built-in MIDI compatible synthesiser. It usually is a crummy sounding FM synthesiser, but on higher end sound cards it can be a full wave table synthesiser that can accurately simulate any combination of acoustic instruments. MIDI is very compact way of storing music. You can pick up a whole song off the Internet in a few seconds and start playing it immediately using the Crescendo add-in software to your web browser. The main limitation of MIDI is that it currently cannot handle the human voice.
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