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A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like…

— Charles Petzold

Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up, change notes…

— Tim Hecker

Well, I don't really use MIDI that much. But I do record audio around me a lot, and just layer it up and see…

— Jon Hopkins

Midi is my hobby.

— J. J. Johnson

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and…

— Jamie Woon

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one…

— Charles Petzold

We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear…

— Synyster Gates

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

— Mike Shinoda

Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool.

— Yael Naim

Some sounds are coming from the keyboard and they are very important in the writing process, but on the other hand, we have melody…

— Nicolas Godin

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very…

— Eric Whitacre

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result…

— Brian Eno