Musician's Guide to MIDI

by Kenyon Brown and Christian Braut

Since its appearance in 1983, MIDI has become the universal communications standard for musical information. However, the MIDI language isn't easy to master. This book's comprehensive tutorial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782112854
• ISBN13: 9780782112856
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 1087 Pages
• Weight: 3.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book on MIDI protocol details

The book, while a bit dated (chapters on older keyboards' quirks and such may not be very useful to musicians with new gear), does contain excellent descriptions of all types of MIDI messages, as well as hardware implementation details and flowcharts for implementing MIDI data reception, in case you're writing a MIDI program or designing a MIDI hardware gadget. The MIDI protocol has remained essentially unchanged for long enough that this book is still a great reference for MIDI musicians, software and hardware designers.

Excellent For Learning and For Reference

Rare is the book that, when faced with as complex and crufty a standard as MIDI, can explain it in terms that you can pick up the first time, and still be useful as a reference later. This is that kind of book -- useful for exeryone from the mildly curious, to serious MIDI developers.