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General MIDI

An addition to the original MIDI specification that allows for consistent playback on any instrument that is GM compatible. Achieved by requiring that groups of sounds have very specific locations (a piano sound on one synthesizer will have the same location on another,) that all instruments have 24-voice polyphony, and that certain continuous controllers are similarly defined.

MIDI Time Stamping

A term coined by MOTU to denote a method of coding MIDI data to allow the computer to re-trigger this information with grater accuracy. Before time stamping, MIDI transmission suffered from a certain amount of "slop" due to a sequencer program having to rely on the host computer's clock to manage timing issue.

Standard MIDI File

A standardized file format for exchanging MIDI data independent of originating software or platform. Comes in two flavors. Type 0, which is a single track that contains all sixteen MIDI channels and pertinent information. It should be noted that although the information is presented in a single track, the individual channel information is kept discreet and can be easily extracted.

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