midi
    adj 1: used of women's clothing having a hemline at mid-calf;
           "midiskirts"; "wore her dresses midi length" [ant:
           maxi, mini]
    n 1: the southern part of France
    2: a standard protocol for communication between electronic
       musical instruments and computers [syn: musical instrument
       digital interface, MIDI]

MIDI
       Musical Instruments Digital Interface (MIDI)
       

Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDI

    (MIDI /mi'-dee/,
   /mee'-dee/) A hardware specification and protocol used to
   communicate note and effect information between synthesisers,
   computers, music keyboards, controllers, and other electronic
   music devices.  It is basically a high-speed serial
   connection with separate connections for MIDI in, MIDI out and
   MIDI through (to allow devices to be chained).

   The basic unit of information is a "note on/off" event which
   includes a note number (pitch) and key velocity (loudness).
   There are many other message types for events such as pitch
   bend, patch changes and synthesizer-specific events for
   loading new patches etc.

   There is a file format for expressing MIDI data which is like
   a dump of data sent over a MIDI port.

   The MIME type "audio/midi" isn't actually registered so it
   should probably be "audio/x-midi".

   Filename extension: .mid or .midi

   <http://update.uu.se/~vick/Coordinator.html>.

   Usenet newsgroups: <news:comp.music.midi>,
   <news:alt.music.midi>.

   (1998-06-27)