MIDI Usage And Applications
The two organizations responsible for the creation and oversight of the MIDI standard, the US MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and Japan's Association of Musical Electronics Industry (AMEI), have jointly standardized many extensions to it. General MIDI (GM) is one of these, an attempt by the MMA to create a standardized map of instrument programme numbers. AMEI members developed General MIDI Level 2 (GM2), which increased the number of available instruments, specified additional message responses, and defined new messages. GM2 is the basis of the instrument selection mechanism in Scalable Polyphony MIDI (SP-MIDI), a MIDI variant for mobile applications. The hardware connection specified in the original standard has been augmented with support for additional forms of transport. MIDI is also used as a control protocol in applications other than music, including show control and theatre lighting.
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