Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!router!vtt!lucenius From: lucenius@vtt.vtt.fi (Jan, puh 4566511, Lue heti !) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: Musical information coding Message-ID: <3830@vtt.vtt.fi> Date: 14 Sep 89 08:44:43 GMT Organization: VTT/TEL Lines: 17 I would like to know whether there exist any standard or de facto standard format for musical information and notes. You can of course send notes as pictures (i.e. by fax) and music as digitized sound, but then you can't edit the notes, nor drive any instruments. The amount of information required for that kind of info is also (if appropriately coded) considerably smaller than that of digitized sound and/or picture. Locally you can connect computers (even very small) and instruments through the MIDI. Does the Midi standard include any kind of file interchange format which also could be distributed over networks ? If there exist one or more standard formats, which products do currently conform to it ? Regards Jan Lucenius