12-12-2010, 06:06 PM
(12-12-2010, 04:12 PM)Kristovski Wrote: Midi is not a language. It is a protocol
"[MIDI] is an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments (synthesizers, drum machines), computers and other electronic equipment (MIDI controllers, sound cards, samplers) to communicate and synchronize with each other."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_Ins..._Interface
So basically it is a language since:
"Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
Language is just a protocol of communication understood by the emitter and the receiver.