Format
MIDI Audio
Summary
- Name
- MIDI Audio
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: audio/midi
- PUID: x-fmt/230
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- A format that utilizes the cxcal Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) protocol to record, store, and read sound event instructions such as pitch, tempo, velocity, and sustain. As the file does not contain actual recorded audio, the file size is greatly reduced.
- Note
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI#MIDI_file_format https://fileinfo.com/extension/midi
- File extensions
-
mid,midi - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
MIDI Audio
- Note
- <Chunk type>MThd <header length> 32-bit representation of the number 6, followed by <format> 2 bytes (must be 00, 01 or 02); <number of tracks> 2 bytes; and <division>2 bytes; followed by MTrk <track header>
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
4D5468640000000600[00:02]{4}4D54726B- Endianness
- None