MIDI. Musical instrument digital interface
Wednesday March 18, 2026. 2 hours. Start 19:00
You have been making music on a laptop or with hardware electronic music instruments and you’ve noticed that thing called MIDI. It seems to be the language machines use to talk music. That’s right! This lesson helps you to learn to speak that language.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
You will get a thorough description of the MIDI protocol and how it’s used in both software and hardware environments. We will talk about the physical forms the interface can take (DIN plug, USB, minijack) and we will discuss possibilities and tools that MIDI provides us (transforming MIDI data, arpeggios, sequences, chord players etc, MPE). We’ll also tell you about the history and the future of the protocol.
WHAT DO WE NEED?
Something that talks MIDI. Normally this would be your laptop with DAW and a synth or drumcomputer/ groove box. It’s probably useful to bring your laptop, we’ll do a couple of exercises.
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WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?
This course is for beings that make music with a DAW on a laptop and / or other hardware electronic music instruments. If you’ve never made any music with electronics before it’s probably not for you.
AND AFTERWARDS?
You will receive a PDF for reference after the lesson.
ANYTHING ELSE?
This course is taught in groups of a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12 people and will be in English unless there are only Dutch speaking participants. The course takes place in Den Dolder.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
The cost is 60 euros including VAT and you can register at lessons@sonartraffic.nl with MIDI as subject. Registration closes on March 16th