The computer may be the centre of your studio, but it’s unlikely to come with a method of ‘talking’ to any external musical hardware straight out of the box. A MIDI interface provides that connectivity, and allows MIDI data from all manner of sources to be recorded by software and then edited.

This article will look at what MIDI is, how it’s used to connect different devices, and some of the more popular MIDI interfaces.

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