MIDI as communication protocol and musical score digital format

This seminar will be an introduction to MIDI as communication protocol between instruments/applications and as file format for digital representation of musical scores.

We will present the main control events, their codification protocol, MIDI note numbers details, sound banks and musical symbols support, among other topics.

Also, it will be exhibit two of the most commonly used audio APIs in Linux and some free MIDI tools (synthesizers and score editors, for example).