The MIDI protocol is a beautifully endearing thing. It's been around, virtually unchanged since 1982! But it's awfully compact and does some tricky and creative stuff when it comes to exchanging larger formats of data.

Join Julian as he reverse engineers a 'system exchange message' from a Korg monologue synthesizer. We will be looking at the raw signal on a spectrogram, observing the bit packing structure and discussing the absurdity of 7 bit bytes!

There will be an interactive component where you are encouraged to use the synthesizers provided and try your hand at decoding some MIDI signals too!

Karaoke - Sing!