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What is the main purpose of MIDI?

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Representing images, sound and other data

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What is the main purpose of MIDI?.

  1. A.To store instructions describing musical performance events
  2. B.To store a recording of the sound waves produced by instruments
  3. C.To compress a video recording of a concert
  4. D.To convert all music into image data

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  • To store instructions describing musical performance events

Explanation

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MIDI represents music using event messages that describe what should happen during a performance, rather than storing the complete sound recording.

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