Sound and Music for Games: The Basics of Digital Audio for Video Games

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R. CieslaSound and Music for Gameshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8661-6_7

7. Introducing MIDI 2.0

Robert Ciesla¹  

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HELSINKI, Finland

 

Having explored the well-established MIDI 1.0 specification in the previous chapter, we’ll now find out about its exciting follow-up. In development since 2005, MIDI 2.0 was finally unveiled in 2020. The new specification is impressive, but it will not be replacing MIDI 1.0—mostly because it’s designed not to do that.

MIDI 2.0 at a Glance

MIDI 2.0 offers a whole host of new features designed to improve data resolution, timing accuracy, and configurability of devices. Despite of these technologies, the specification absolutely ...