Other Applications of MIDI
MIDI is also used every day as a control protocol in applications other than music, including:
- show control
- theatre lighting
- special effects
- sound design
- Console automation
- recording system synchronization
- audio processor control
- computer animation
- computer networking, as demonstrated in 1987 by the early first-person shooter game MIDI Maze
- animatronic figure control
Non-musical applications of MIDI are possible because any device built with a standard MIDI Out connector should in theory be able to control any other device with a MIDI In port, as long as the developers of both devices agree on the meaning of the MIDI messages the sending device emits. This agreement can come either because both follow the published MIDI specifications, or in the case of non-standard functionality, because the message meanings are agreed upon by the two manufacturers.
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