The incidences of âon a tearâ is on rise from 0.000001 in 1970 to 0.0000025 after 2000 and onward, but incidences of 'in a tear' have been flattened out at the low level of 0.0000012 - 0.0000016 throughout the tracked period.
1 Used literally, MIDI controller refers to any hardware or software that generates and transmits MIDI data to MIDI-enabled devices. 2  in practice, MIDI controller refers to a device that controls parameters of a performance.
MIDI is nothing more than data -- a set of instructions. MIDI data contains a list of events or messages that tell an electronic device (musical instrument, computer sound card, cell phone, et cetera) how to generate a certain sound.Here are a few examples of typical MIDI messages:1  Note On signals that a key has been pressed or a note on another instrument (like a MIDI guitar or clarinet) has been played. 2  The Note On message includes instructions for what key was pressed and at what velocity (how hard the note was played).nd since MIDI files don't contain sampled audio like MP3 or WAV files, they're comparatively much smaller than audio files. A minute of compressed audio adds up to around 10Mb (megabytes) of data, while a minute of sound translated into MIDI only takes up 10Kb (kilobytes) [source: MIDI Manufacturers Association ].