MIDI Monitoring in a PC
Douglas A. Kerr · 2008
We may wish to be able to “observe” the MIDI message streams emitted by various electronic music programs in our computer, such as scoring programs or MIDI editors, perhaps in connection with trouble shooting. Various software tools (“MIDI monitors”) allow these message streams to be captured, parsed, decoded, and displayed and/or printed for us. Their use is sometimes complicated by a gender issue at the computer’s internal (logical) MIDI interface. In this article, we describe a typical MIDI monitoring tool (MIDI Ox); discuss the gender issue, and explain how it can be overcome; and give basic guidelines for the use of MIDI Ox.