MIDI - The Music Education Tool K-12 Can't Live Without: New Benchmarks for Chromebooks

 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the technical standard for connecting electronic musical instruments and computers to record, edit, and playback music.Created in 1983 and 40 years later, it is still essential in music education because playing any keyboard note can generate:

• Notation
• Pitch
• Velocity
• Panning
• Vibrato
• Clock Signals
• Key Pressure
  
  
  
  

… and much more, plus hundreds of instruments and sounds; these MIDI messages act as instructions for the computer and music education software. 

All this and a bag of chips:looping, randomizing, instant transposing, cut, copy, paste, drop and drag and more. 

But it is Web MIDI, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for MIDI on the Internet that has driven Chromebook adoption in the music education market.

More information at  https://midi.org/midi-articles/midi-the-music-education-tool-k-12-can-t-live-without-new-benchmarks-for-chromebooks