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GENERAL INFO:

: MIDI Spec

Fairly detailed description of MIDI, from Harmony Central, with charts and graphs, and everything.
: History

Tutorial/FAQ on both the synthesizer's history and MIDI.
: MIDI Fanatic

Essays, detailed explanations, tech data, and so on.
: MIDI Papa

Links to MIDI sites and files, and so on. But a site put up really more to just explain the basics of uploading/downloading MIDI to UseNet newsgroups, problems/features of various newsreaders, how to ask for MIDI files, and more.
: MIDI Music

Dan Jansson's site with a lot of informative pages about MIDI, and more. Check out his tutorial intro to MIDI.
: Alt.music.midi FAQ

Interesting stuff about what is midi, what sequencers might you use, and so on, with a long section on the ever popular - can I convert wave to midi? (with a list of all avail. programs to do this, as well as they are able).
: UseNet Newsgroups

The two groups in one may ask questions, discuss problems with MIDI hook-ups, things to do with future industry developments, and whatever, at:

comp.music.midi
alt.music.midi

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INFO on SYNTHS:

: Canvas Carry-All

Various tech info put together by Gord Braun on the Roland GS synths.
: SCUG

Sound Canvas Users Group. Run by Gary Agnew, Gord Braun, and David Peters. Original MIDIs for the Roland, info, how to get on the mailing list, and so on.

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MIDI PROGRAMMING:

: Maximum MIDI

If you have a mind to try programming MIDI, it can be challenging, to say the least. But this guy has put together a bunch of C++ routines and simple apps to get you up and running real fast. The book is called, Maximum MIDI. And if you do buy the book, the author has his own web board, to help answer your questions, one on one. It's a good deal.
: GN MIDI

Gunter Nagler's shareware MIDI utilities, and a host of assorted little freebie aps (as well as his excellent original MIDI songs).
: Utilities

Some interesting Windows/DOS MIDI and SysEx utilities, particularly if you want to start writing programs for MIDI, yourself (there's a fair amount of source code included in all these).

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CHATS / BOARDS:

: MaxMIDI Support

As noted above, Paul Messick's own web board where he answers technical, C++ programming questions on MIDI, if you bought his book.
: HitSquad

Generally messages about software and the sort of thing you get on the newsgroups.
: Harmony Central

Mostly hardware questions, but with some requests and discussion of MIDI files, too.