We’ve come a long way in our use of MIDI. When the standard was introduced in the 1980s, getting different instruments made by different manufacturers to communicate with each other was a huge step ...

I've spent the last three days trying to write a simple piece of software that translates specified MIDI messages into Open Sound Control messages. I'm very new at this, so I decided to code it in ...

In this installment of our tour of Linux MIDI software, we look at some experimental MIDI music-making environments. I've divided this class of software into command-line and GUI-based applications.