computer then follows to produce digital images and sounds. These instructions, like all
aspects of digital computing, are encoded as bits and bytes.
Sounds can be encoded as commands by specifying musical actions, such as striking
a particular organ key with a certain force and duration. This is the approach used in the
popular MIDI format (Musical Instrument Digital Interface; see Chapter 7). A MIDI file
stores the commands used to produce sounds, rather than the sounds themselves. As
the computer executes the commands, specialized software and hardware (sequencers
andsynthesizers) produce the corresponding ...
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