CHAPTER 4
Systems Interconnections
From Chapter 1, we know that MIDI is a digital language that’s used to communicate control information between connected devices within music or other production systems. As such, there are numerous ways that this data can be communicated within a connected system; these include:
- Direct wired connections using dedicated MIDI cables
- Wired communication over USB and other cabled connections
- Communication over the Web or other ISP systems
- Direct wireless communication
The MIDI Cable
The original method for communicating data between connected devices in a system, which of course is still in common use today, uses MIDI cables to get the job done.
A single MIDI cable is used to transmit 16 discrete channels ...
