Introduction to Electronic and Computer Music

Homework: MDI. Answer the following questions.

1. What does MIDI stands for?

2. How many MIDI channels are there?

3. For most MIDI parameters, values go from 0 to what number?

4. This most common MIDI message is a channel voice message. Two kinds of MIDI channel voice message are "note on" and “note off” messages. Name 3 other kinds of MIDI channel voice messages.

5. Name as many pieces of (musically useful) information that cannot be sent with MIDI from a computer to a synthesizer.

6. What does quantization mean in a sequencer?

7. Sequencers are sometimes compared to multi-track tape machines, as are digital audio programs like Pro Tools. What are some of the advantages that sequencers have over digital audio programs? What are some of the advantages that digital audio programs have over sequencers?