Binary and Hexadecimal math

[VTgreen81]

In my music tech course we are starting to study Binary and Hex, and although I understand the relationship, I wonder, how often do you experienced MIDI composers use either?

[AlChuck]

Probably never. It's used in part of the details of how the MIDI protocol is built. If you were writing code to interpret MIDI files or MIDI messages, then you would use that. But it's not something you would use at the user level.

[TexRoadkill]

There are ten types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

[VTgreen81]

Originally posted by TexRoadkill
There are ten types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

roflmao

[AlChuck]

Only problem with that joke is that if it's in binary, you wouldn't call 10 "ten," it's "one-oh."

If you phrased it this way:

"There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't."

that would make it perfect...

[sk8ingsnowman]

There are "00000101" types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

[AlChuck]

00000101 binary = 5 decimal

so I guess you're one of the "don'ts"

[sk8ingsnowman]

Forget one "0" and all goes to hell

But back on topic, Yes I have used Binary and hexadecimal on a few rare ocassions. (tracking down problem messages/notes in the midi events list) Its not hard stuff (but it is easy to mess up) so why not learn it just in case.

[AlChuck]

Its not hard stuff (but it is easy to mess up)...

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