The 0 or 1 suffix on the download button indicates the type of the MIDI file: Type 0 or Type 1. To download a MIDI, click its download button, to add it to Download Queue. You may start your MIDI discovery by clicking 'By Composer', 'By Contributor', or typing what you're looking for, into our search box above. MIDI files can also be converted to sheet music, with the appropriate software. It was originally developed in the 1980s as a standard communications protocol for connecting hardware synthesizers together with sequencers, keyboards, and other devices which controlled them. Digital pianos, physical pianos and other real instruments, synthesizers, computerized virtual instruments, and even stage sets of an opera can all be controlled by MIDI. It is primarily used to communicate which, when, for how long, and how loud to play musical notes, and with which 'instrument.' But it can be used to communicate a great range of other performance data. In a nutshell, MIDI is a digital protocol, that is, a language which communicates performance instructions for any musical instrument or device (such as your sound card) which understands the language.

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