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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a digital communication pro-

tocol that allows you to interconnect musical instruments and digital elec-

tronic equipment, such as lighting control consoles. If you are not familiar

with MIDI and would like more information on how it works,

Control Sys-

tems for Live Entertainment

, by John Huntington, includes several sec-

tions that deal with the subject.

Insight 2x supports two versions of MIDI. In addition to ETC MIDI, a pro-

prietary MIDI implementation developed by ETC, you may also use the

entertainment lighting industry standard, MIDI Show Control 1.0 (MSC).

ETC MIDI

The console both transmits and receives MIDI messages with any MIDI

instrument

The MIDI protocol can operate cues, macros and submaster

bump switches.

ETC assumes that MIDI users have a working knowledge of MIDI

This

section provides ETC MIDI interface information, message formats and

message definitions

See

Installing MIDI

on page 303 for installation infor-

mation. If you need more technical information about MIDI, contact ETC.

Note: Macros cannot execute MIDI commands.