MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. These days, as we all know, entire albums can be made using nothing more than a laptop, a DAW ...

Many MIDI devices, like MIDI keyboards, are capable of playing multiple instruments at the same time, each on a different MIDI channel. By connecting the MIDI device to a Mac computer, you can record ...

[Arvydas] recently bought a Rock Band 3 Wii keyboard thinking it would be an excellent and very inexpensive (£9.99) MIDI controller. The keyboard has a proper DIN-5 MIDI out port, so theoretically the ...