MIDI Files

[Mark Smith]

Exactly. A midi file is effectively a description of the music (a  
list of notes to be played, with some other information), like a  
written score, as opposed to a recording.

Mark

On 11 Dec 2005, at 13:11, Charles Hartman wrote:

>
> On Dec 10, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Scott Kane wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.  I assumed they were binary, didn't
>> know they were text.
>
> They aren't, but they're like text: getting music out of them is  
> analogous to getting speech out of a text file. (It's interesting  
> to think about the relative algorithmicity of the two processes …)
>
> Charles Hartman
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