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Here's a collection of articles to help people understand what MIDI is. Please keep in mind that some of these articles are fairly old. There are some references to things that 'will happen' that have indeed already happened ...
Band in a box styles for Songwriters:
Each demo below was created in BiaB using a different style and then saved as a midi file.
Yes, they have guitar bends, and yes, those bends were generated by the styles. They were not added later!
What you hear was done in Band in a Box!
The MIDI Manufacturers Association (also known as "MMA") is where companies work together to create the standards that assure compatibility among MIDI products. Since 1985 we've produced 11 new specifications and adopted 38 sets of enhancements to MIDI.
Most film and TV scores, as well as popular recorded music is written and performed using electronic keyboards and other MIDI-equipped musical instruments. (Thanks to advances in digital sampling and synthesis technologies, the orchestra playing behind that big-screen block buster is more likely to be the product of MIDI than a real orchestra with dozens of acoustic instruments.) ...
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Lesser life forms communicate in more primitive, less artistic manners such as barks, chirps, roars, or any of the many human verbal languages in use throughout the globe. But, gods communicate using MIDI messages. Even a picture, whose value is often equated to a thousand words, cannot match the scope of emotional and intellectual power unleashed by a stream of MIDI messages. But, try to tell that to the visual-and-print-fixated, tone-deaf heathen who infest this planet ...