A MIDI sound card connects musical instruments to a computer for recording and editing in a MIDI format. It can be built into a motherboard or installed separately, and allows for audio input and output. MIDI data is digital and can be synthesized, often using a keyboard as the input device.
A music instrument digital interface (MIDI) sound card is a piece of computer hardware that allows a user to connect musical instruments and similar devices via a MIDI connector to a computer. This is typically done to use a computer to record music, especially for use in a MIDI format, and the sound card can often double as a standard sound card, allowing microphones, speakers, and similar devices to be connected. A MIDI sound card can potentially be built into a computer’s motherboard, but is often a separate device installed on the motherboard inside the computer case.
MIDI is a standard used across several industries as a way to get audio information onto a computer hard drive. This audio data can then be recorded, edited and used in a number of different applications, depending on what is needed by the computer user. A MIDI sound card is an audio device that uses this type of interface and is installed on a computer’s motherboard, allowing you to connect a musical instrument, often a keyboard, to your computer. The instrument can then be used as an input device to create music or audio information that can be saved on the computer.
A MIDI sound card has often been used in digital music creation. Typically it won’t actually record the audio information, because the device you’re using for input doesn’t actually play the music into your computer. Any audio information is not sent as sound waves but as digital information indicating pitch, volume, tempo and other information which can be translated into audio sound through the use of an audio editing program or similar software. This means that the audio resulting from using a MIDI device typically sounds somewhat synthesized and may appear to be digital or computer in nature.
Just like other types of sound cards, a MIDI sound card typically allows a user to connect speakers and a microphone to the computer as well. Sometimes multiple sound cards are used to allow one MIDI card to be used solely for audio input and a separate card to function as speaker or headphone output. The input device used with a MIDI sound card is typically a keyboard, which will have a MIDI connector running from a jack on the keyboard to the sound card. These can be standard keyboards that can also produce music, or specialized MIDI keyboards that don’t make music and only serve as a digital audio input device.
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