Multimedia: MIDI
Functional Description

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

There are several conceptual areas to MIDI.

• Specification of hardware interface for communication between music devices.
• Specification of the MIDI protocol, message format, for real-time interaction between music devices.
• A file format (e.g. Standard MIDI file format - .mid, .midi) for storing a musical score - serialized version of the MIDI protocol with time-stamping for ordering of musical events.

Qt Extended is concerned with the playing of music scores stored in the Standard MIDI file format.

Features

• Patch file support
• Play Standard MIDI format files.
• Supported MIDI events

Patch file support

• Compatibility with GUS patch files

Play Standard MIDI format files.

The multimedia subsystem plays Standard MIDI format files.

Supported MIDI events

• Program change
• Key pressure
• Channel main volume
• Tempo
• Panning
• Damper pedal (Sustain)
• Pitch wheel
• Pitch wheel sensitivity
• Change drum set