I wonder why Status byte must start with 1, and the other data bytes must start with 0. I mean, I read that this is the way the midi reciever recognize each byte. However, that doesn't make sense to me.
they're probably using a continuous controller command or a non-musical command.
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if you can figure out which one, then you can copy it with Arduino or whatever hardware you plan on using.
I'm looking all over here trying to find what software you are using to compose your music. I'm just getting started with this midi thing and don't want to drop a chunk of cash on software that doesn't work with my USB to midi converter. Any tips? I was thinking of Rose Garden.
I'm planning to compose some tunes, send them to my Arduino, and have it play a xylophone or something.
I've been using Rosegarden on Linux for the last 18 months and found it to be quite stable with a cheep usb-midi cable converter I found on ebay. I wasn't able to get it working with a Moto box I was gifted but I think that is a problem with Linux.
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According to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, his Sith Master Darth Plagueis could influence the midi-chlorians to create life. In the New Republic Era, Imperial scientist Doctor Penn Pershing experimented with blood samples that he harvested from Grogu, a Force-sensitive youngling with a high midi-chlorian count.
Midi-chlorian was the scientific name[2] for a species of sentient and microscopic organisms that inhabited the cells of every life form.[1] Their existence was integral to the all-encompassing energy field known as the Force, connecting the Living Force to the Cosmic Force.[3] By serving as the link between the two aspects of the Force, the midi-chlorians made it possible to achieve immortality after death. With sufficient training[4] and total immersion in the light side of the Force,[5] the deceased could preserve their identity in the form of a Force spirit after becoming one with the Force.[4]
Midi-chlorians were detected through a scientific analysis of blood samples taken from a life form. In this case, the purpose of examining blood was to calculate the number of midi-chlorians that resided within the living cells of a subject, and therefore, determine the natural strength of the connection between said subject and the Force. During the Republic Era, the highest known concentration of midi-chlorians in a life form was approximately twenty-thousand according to the records of the Jedi Order. This record was broken following the discovery of Anakin Skywalker, whose midi-chlorian level surpassed all Jedi, including Grand Master Yoda.[1]
The Wellspring of Life, a mystical world located in the center of the galaxy, was the birthplace of a microscopic species that served as the link between the Living Force[3] within all life forms and the infinite Cosmic Force.[8] It was also the foundation of life,[3] with all life forms serving a symbiotic host for the living organisms[1] native to the wellspring.[3] In modern science these intelligent microbes became known as "midi-chlorians."[9]
The existence of midi-chlorians was known to both the Jedi[1] and the Sith.[10] The Jedi Order utilized the scientific procedure of blood testing to estimate the number of midi-chlorians within prospective initiates. In addition to their scientific knowledge of midi-chlorians, Jedi philosophy held that the midi-chlorians were the foundation of all life itself. Therefore, life could not exist without the midi-chlorians.[1]
Following Skywalker's liberation, he was taken to the Jedi Grand Temple on Coruscant, the capital world of the Galactic Republic, where Jinn hoped to see him trained in the ways of the Force with the permission of the Jedi High Council. Jinn disclosed the results of Skywalker's blood test in his report to the High Council, as well as his belief that Skywalker may have been conceived by the midi-chlorians. Though initially skeptical of the maverick Jedi Master's claims, the High Council ultimately accepted Skywalker into the Order in the aftermath of the Battle of Naboo.[1]
By 19 BBY,[11] over a decade after the discovery of Anakin Skywalker, the spirit of the late Qui-Gon Jinn made contact with Yoda. After journeying to the planet Dagobah at Jinn's insistence,[4] Yoda discovered the birthplace of the midi-chlorians, where he learned of their role as the link between the Living Force and the Cosmic Force,[2] a connection embodied by five ethereal beings: Anger, Confusion, Joy, Sadness, and Serenity.[8]
In the waning days of the Clone Wars, Skywalker became fearful of losing his secret wife, Senator Padmé Amidala, due to premonitions of her death in childbirth. Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith whom Skywalker knew as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, sought to lure Skywalker to the dark side of the Force[10] by recounting a so-called Sith legend[13] that involved the midi-chlorians. According to Sidious, Darth Plagueis was a wise and powerful Sith Lord who could manipulate midi-chlorians to create new life, an ability that extended to preserving life from death itself. Skywalker ultimately turned against the Jedi, becoming Sidious' Sith apprentice, Darth Vader, in the hope of gaining Plagueis' knowledge through his new Sith Master.[10] In reality, Plagueis was able to coax midi-chlorians to create new life, as he believed that the secret to immortality laid in science, but his experiments, although encouraging, were incomplete.[14]
During the rise of the New Republic, a remnant of the Galactic Empire sought to acquire a Force-sensitive foundling known as Grogu.[16] Doctor Penn Pershing, a member of the remnant, extracted samples of Grogu's blood which contained a high count of midi-chlorians. Due to Grogu's size, however, Pershing could only harvest a small amount of genetic material without killing the asset.[15] Grogu was ultimately taken from the remnant by Din Djarin, a Mandalorian bounty hunter who formed an attachment to the mysterious alien foundling.[17]
Losing Grogu left Pershing with a limited supply of blood samples that he used in his experiments at the behest of Moff Gideon. Despite the early trials showing promise, the experiment was a failure as the test subjects rejected the blood transfusion. Pershing noted in his report to Gideon that, for the project to continue, they needed to harvest more blood samples from the original source. The scientist was also doubtful that they would find another host with a high midi-chlorian count, making Grogu vital to their program.[15]
Lucasfilm maintains that midi-chlorians were first conceived by George Lucas as early as 1977. However, there is no evidence of this before the publication of The Making of Star Wars in 2007; the book's author, Jonathan W. Rinzler, said that Lucas added the passage about midi-chlorians in the run-up to the book's publication.[20] Lucas incorporated the explanation of midi-chlorians into the film as part of Anakin Skywalker's journey towards understanding the Force.[21] When discussing the story treatment for 1983's Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi in 1981 (then titled Revenge of the Jedi), and in particular the backstory for Anakin (who had been revealed to be Darth Vader), Lucas implied that the precepts of being a Jedi could be practiced by "anyone" when comparing it to yoga or karate.[22] As recorded in Star Wars: The Making of Episode I The Phantom Menace, the midi-chlorians were incorporated into the film's story in the second screenplay draft, finished around 1995.[23] In the interview given to Paul Duncan, author of the Star Wars Archives books, Lucas confirmed that "everyone has the Force", since every single living organism has midi-chlorians inside their cells. Despite this, according to Lucas, only those with enough midi-chlorians in their body could "have a certain amount of control over our Personal Force and learn how to use it, like the Buddhist practice of being able to walk on hot coals."[24] A different explanation would be provided in the Ahsoka episode "Part Three: Time to Fly," released on August 29, 2023 in Disney+, where Ahsoka Tano assures Sabine Wren that she can become a Jedi with proper training even if she isn't Force-sensitive like others.[25]
Midi-chlorians in The Phantom Menace are part of a recurring theme throughout the movie, that of symbiotic relationships.[21] They were loosely based on mitochondria, organelles that provide energy for cells; like midi-chlorians, mitochondria are believed to have once been separate organisms that inhabited living cells and have since become part of them; even now, mitochondria act in some ways as independent lifeforms, with DNA all their own. Lucas established this relation with mitochondria, in particular the necessity of midi-chlorians for life to exist, as a metaphor for society; namely, he says all parts of society must get along in much the way the midi-chlorians and their symbiont do.[26]
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