What is the MIDI format? What are the advantages and disadvantages of MIDI?

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A popular music format is the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) format, which synthesizes musical sounds through the use of mathematical functions describing the pitch, length, and volume of each note. MIDI files are much smaller than music stored in other audio formats: A MIDI composition lasting several minutes is less than 20 kilobytes in size, while a similar file in WAV format would be several megabytes in size, and a comparable MP3 would be only several hundred kilobytes in size. However, the MIDI format is limited to instrumental music and cannot be used for general sounds, such as speech.

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