MIDI Audio

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MID, MIDI

• Format Type : Audio
  
• Endian Order : Big Endian
  
• Signature : MThd
  

Format Specifications

// MThd chunk header
4 bytes (char) - signature // "MThd"
4 bytes (uint32) - length of the MThd chunk  // always 6

// MThd chunk data
2 bytes (uint16) - format type  // 0 - one single track containing midi data 
                                // 1 - file contains one or more simultaneous tracks
                                // 2 - file contains one or more sequentially independant single-track patterns
2 bytes (uint16) - number of tracks
2 bytes (uint16) - pulses (i.e. clocks) per quarter note (abbreviated as PPQN)


// other chunks
num_of_chunks *
{
   4 bytes (char) - chunk signature  // "MTrk"
   4 bytes (uint32) - length of the chunk
   x bytes - MIDI data
}

MultiEx BMS Script

Not written yet.

Notes and Comments

None.

Games

List of games using this file format:

• Akuji the Demon (*.MID) (PC)
• Alonix (*.MID) (PC)
• Atoll (*.MID) (PC)
• Atomaders (*.MID) (PC)
• Ball Breaker 3D (*.MID) (PC)
• Blood
• Boppin
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Hi Octane
• Hocus Pocus
• Ksiaze i Tchorz (*.MID) (PC)
• Magic Pockets
• Prince of Persia
• Rise of the Triad
• Sango Fighter
• Shadow Warrior
• SimCity 2000
• Wacky Wheels
• Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Compatible Programs

• Media Player Classic
• Winamp

See Also

• MID file format (modding wiki)