Talk:MIDI 1.0

WikiProject Video games template removed
Per a discussion at WT:VG, I've removed the WikiProject Video games scope template from this article. This article describes a technical specification for a technology often used to produce music in video games, but an article specifically about video game music would be more appropriate for inclusion in the project, and that in turn could link to this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KieferSkunk (talk • contribs)

Page move discussion
This article has been renamed from The MIDI 1.0 Protocol to MIDI 1.0 as the result of a move request. - Move.

Suggesting that we rename this page to MIDI 1.0 - the current name (The MIDI 1.0 Protocol) is not a proper title of a book, movie, game or other form of media. Alternative suggestion would be MIDI 1.0 protocol (note caps and lack of definite article). Please discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KieferSkunk (talk • contribs)

MIDI 1.0 is probably the place for it. Andrewa (talk) 03:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm gonna give it a couple more days. If no more discussion occurs, I'm going to go ahead and move it. &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 00:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Support. I don't feel "protocol" is required so simply MIDI 1.0 --Lox (t,c) 12:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Done: Since yours was the only comment since I said I was going to do it, I'm moving it as non-controversial. :) &mdash; KieferSkunk (talk) &mdash; 19:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

RTP MIDI Reference removed
There is a mention in the body of an external reference to RTP MIDI "below" but it was obviously removed a long time ago. Tsk Tsk. Charlie Richmond (talk) 05:59, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Standard MIDI Files
Should this article mention the Standard MIDI File format (and/or have links to information about it)? Musanim (talk) 02:53, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Table being worked on
Feel free to finish and paste into the article. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 23:56, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

A message begins with a status byte, in the range 128–255 (0x80–0xFF, high bit set), followed by a message-dependent number of data bytes, which are in the range of 0–127 (0x00–0x7F, high bit clear). 7 of the messages (status bytes from 0x80–0xEF) encode a channel number in the low nibble. Status bytes from 0xF0–0xFF are system-wide messages. These are further divided into system common messages from 0xF0–0xF7 and system real-time messages from 0xF0–0xF7. The latter have no data bytes and are specially permitted to appear anywhere in the MIDI data stream, even in the middle of other MIDI messages.

If two data bytes are combined into one 14-bit value, they are always sent least significant bits first.

Redirect to MIDI
I don't understand why we need this article.


 * Notable, relevant, encyclopaedic information about midi 1.0 should be covered in the MIDI article.
 * This article seems only to comprise extensive tables of technical information. This might be useful to those seeking technical information about midi, particularly how to use it, but that is not the purpose of Wikipedia (see WP:NOT). We should serve a general readership (see WP:TECHNICAL).
 * As per WP:INDISCRIMINATE, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. As the policy says, To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources.
 * The article has very few sources, which is a fundamental requirement of Wikipedia (see WP:CITE).

Let's redirect it to MIDI. Popcornfud (talk) 15:38, 7 March 2020 (UTC)