Let's talk about MIDI
summary
Shows how raw MIDI messages arrive in the browser via Web MIDI API, converts those messages to sound with the Web Audio API or to lights and visuals using MIDI Show Control and the MIDI Visual Control spec, demonstrates a browser emulated keyboard and pressure‑sensitive pads, notes latency that breaks perfect sync and the draft timing API that aims to fix it, highlights a live experiment with 30,000 launchpads and the emerging MIDI BLE / Web Bluetooth path for wireless controllers.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:18Welcome
- 1:12What is MIDI
- 2:00History of MIDI
- 3:45Messages
- 4:22Web MIDI
- 6:06Data
- 7:01Sound
- 7:50Keyboards
- 9:14Timing
- 11:08Recording
- 12:13MIDI Instruments
- 15:19Hardware
- 15:52MIDI Transport
- 17:05MIDI Show Control
- 18:20Launchpad
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