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From: salzman@randvax.UUCP (Isaac Salzman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Re: Musical information coding
Message-ID: <2236@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 15:55:26 GMT
References: <3830@vtt.vtt.fi>
Reply-To: salzman@rand.ORG (Isaac Salzman)
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In article <3830@vtt.vtt.fi> lucenius@vtt.vtt.fi (Jan, puh 4566511, Lue heti !) writes:
>Locally you can connect computers (even very small) and instruments
>through the MIDI. Does the Midi standard include any kind of file
>interchange format which also could be distributed over networks ?
>
>If there exist one or more standard formats, which products do currently
>conform to it ?
>

there exists a standard "MIDI File" format. It has the notion of tracks
and sequences for transferring song data. it also handles non-MIDI events
and MIDI system exclusive events, so you can store comments and synthesizer
specific information (synth patches, etc.). 

several vendors support it. i use Opcode's Vision and Korg M1 patch
editor/librarian on a Mac, and both of these programs support MIDI files.
many of the Bulletin Boards that carry MIDI programs and such (including
CompuServe) have song archives in MIDI file format. i'll mail you a copy of
the MIDI File spec. in a private message. ciao!

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