MIDI 1.0

First published1983
Issuing bodyConsortium
DomainMedia and Formats
StatusCurrent, universally implemented

About MIDI 1.0

Musical Instrument Digital Interface, agreed in 1983 through a proposal by Dave Smith and Ikutaro Kakehashi, lets synthesizers, computers and controllers exchange note events over a 5 pin cable at 31,250 bits per second. Its creators received a Technical Grammy in 2013, and forty years on every studio still runs on it.

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