Editing MIDI (section)

===USB and FireWire===
Members of the USB-IF in 1999 developed a standard for MIDI over USB, the "Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for MIDI Devices".<ref>Ashour, Gal, et al. [http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/midi10.pdf "Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for MIDI Devices"]. ''USB Implementers Forum''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150426221331/http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/midi10.pdf |date=26 April 2015 }}. 1 November 1999. Accessed 22 August 2012.</ref> MIDI over USB has become increasingly common as other interfaces that had been used for MIDI connections ([[ISA card]], [[game port]], etc.) disappeared from personal computers. Linux, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Apple iOS operating systems include [[USB device class|standard class]] drivers to support devices that use the "Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for MIDI Devices".

[[Apple Computer]] developed the FireWire interface during the 1990s. It began to appear on [[DV (video format)#Connectivity|digital video]] (DV) cameras toward the end of the decade, and on G3 Macintosh models in 1999.<ref name="WiffenFW1">Wiffen, Paul. "[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug00/articles/mlan.htm An Introduction To mLAN, Part 1]". {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102133428/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug00/articles/mlan.htm |date=2 January 2016 }}. ''Sound on Sound''. SOS Publications. August 2000.</ref> It was created for use with multimedia applications.<ref name="WalkerLate" /> Unlike USB, FireWire uses intelligent controllers that can manage their own transmission without attention from the main CPU.<ref name="WiffenFW2">Wiffen, Paul. "[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep00/articles/mlan.htm An Introduction To mLAN, Part 2]". {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110210330/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep00/articles/mlan.htm |date=10 January 2012 }}. ''Sound on Sound''. SOS Publications. September 2000.</ref> As with standard MIDI devices, FireWire devices can communicate with each other with no computer present.<ref name="Cables" />