Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
12019-04-17T04:01:16-07:00Nikita Guedj26e5e59f5c86b075d03e3719dbc6b89b70271c8f335201plain2019-04-17T04:01:16-07:00Nikita Guedj26e5e59f5c86b075d03e3719dbc6b89b70271c8fMIDI is a standard communications protocol that allows computers, controllers, interfaces, etc., to talk to each other and send each other information about sound. A MIDI file in and of itself doesn't contain any audio – there are no sound waves in the file.