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| MIDI
Musical
Instrument
Digital Interface |
| An
interface card or adapter board for connecting a
musical
instrument to a microcomputer is called a MIDI Adapter. Multiple
musical instrument keyboards can be daisy-chained together and played
simultaneously with the help of the computer and related software. The
various operations of the musical keyboard can be captured, saved,
edited, and played back to one or more musical instruments.
Each
instrument, of course, must be MIDI compatible. |
| DSP
digital signal processor |
| A
microprocessor like device designed to
process electrical signals very quickly, just as an FPU is
designed to
perform floating-point math at. highdS DSPs are used for a
variety of
devices personal computers, including high-speed modems, multimedia
sound boards, and realtime audio/video compression and
decompression
hardwa |
| MCI
Media
ControlI Interface |
| The
Windows component that allows multimedia devices such as CD-ROM
drives and videodisk players to be programmed using high-level
function calls that insulate the software from the nuances of
the
hardware. You can use the MCI play command, for example, to playa song
on an audio CD or a video clip on a videodisc player MCI
drivers
provided with Windows translate the play command into low-level
commands specific to the intended output device |
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