MIDI and DMX, a very popular communication standard in stage lighting, do have some interesting similarities. Both have grown well beyond the modest goals of their creators. MIDI was first envisioned as a way to connect two keyboards together. DMX was intended to replace the thick analog cable running from lighting consoles to dimmer racks.

Fender’s Guitar Digital Entertainment Center (G-DEC) can communicate with computers or other G-DECs via a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connection. This document contains “how to” information for the following topics:

1. Playing external MIDI files, PC and Apple Mac
2. Saving custom presets
3. Loading custom presets
4. Transferring G-DEC software updates from your computer to the G-DEC
5. Copying G-DEC internal MIDI loops to a PC (Personal Computer)
6. For programmers – Fender MIDI dump file format.

This booklet was written to help students to learn the basics of linear FM synthesis and to better understand the Yamaha DX/TX series synthesizers. It is not intended to be a complete course of study on either FM synthesis or the DX7. There are already several very comprehensive books plus a fairly substantial users' manual that provide a mountain of information.

MusicXML is a new music interchange format for music software programs. The goal is to create a universal translator for common Western music notation. The musical information is designed to be usable by notation programs, sequencers and other performance programs, music education programs, and music databases.