Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI Serial Interface

• The MIDI Specification
• Sample Dump Standard (SDS)
• MIDI Time Code
• MIDI File Format
• General MIDI (GM)
• About Interchange File Format (IFF)
• WAVE File Format
• AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)
• Windows MIDI and Digital Audio Programming
• MIDI Machine Code (MMC)
• MIDI Adapter (schematic) for Sound Blaster joystick port
• Programming the Roland MPU-401
• Adding a General MIDI music option to MS-DOS game software

See also:

• http://kmt.hku.nl/~pieter/HARD/HARD.html Analog to MIDI convertor Low Cost 8-channel control voltage to MIDI convertor. No CPU's and no software!
  MIDI controlled switchboard Switch anything on and off by sending MIDI note-on and note-off messages to it.
  FSR interface Force Sensitive Resistor strips are not always that easy to interface. A circuit that provides independant position and force-measurements.
• Dave Thomas's PIC code for Midi output
• http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/ An absolutly fantastic site with tech docs (from which the above were originally stolen), tutorials, software, files and contacts. Warning: the site author has a sense of humor; Get used to it or kill yourself.
• http://daemon.apana.org.au/~ghansper/MidiAxis.html
• http://harmony-central.mit.edu
• http://louie.udel.edu/pub/midi/software/mac/mac-midi
• ftp://cher.media.mit.edu/pub/mainboard/mac
• http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/cookbook/comp/ibm/midi1.asc
• ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/rdd/pdp/synth DEC PDPs and Music/Sound Synthesis Summary
• http://www.xs4all.nl/~jwasys/diy4.html

Comments:

• mkuter@gmail.com

  http://www.ucapps.de/ Midibox is a DIY midi controller platform that is totally programmable and customisable and uses a PIC processor or two for it's brains. Definately worth checking out!

• http://dt.prohosting.com/pic/midi.txt Dave Thomas's PIC code for midi output
  (has apparently moved)