The Web MIDI API is intended to connect a browser app with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) devices and make them interact. Such an interface deals with exchanging MIDI messages between a browser app and an external MIDI system, either physical or virtual. The standardization by the World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium started about 10 years ago, with a first public draft published on October 2012, and the process is not over yet. Because this technology can pave the way for innovative applications in musical and extra-musical fields, the present paper aims to unveil the main features of the API, remarking its advantages and drawbacks and discussing several applications that could take benefit from its adoption.

Authors: Baratè, Adriano; Ludovico, Luca A.
Affiliation: Laboratory of Music Informatics Department of Computer Science University of Milan Via G. Celoria, 18 - 20133 Milan, Italy
JAES Volume 70 Issue 11 pp. 918-925; November 2022
Publication Date: November 15, 2022 Import into BibTeX
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