Aside from the music applications, MIDI is a great protocol to tinker with for beginners who wish to exchange data between a microcontroller [1] and a computer,

Aside from the music applications, MIDI is a great protocol to tinker with for beginners who wish to exchange data between a microcontroller [1] and a computer, because of its simplicity. [1] https://github.com/FortySevenEffects/arduino_midi_library https://github.com/FortySevenEffects/arduino_midi_library