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Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by bcook on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:38PM (#13554415)
Are MIDIs still being used by any popular services, apps, OSs, etc?
Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by flatcakes on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:46PM (#13554494)
Well, MIDI data itself is still in heavy use in music production, both to interconnect hardware, and within software itself. It's the standard way to represent notes, timing, events, etc. within music-making software (DAWs).

Actual MIDI files themselves? Mostly just used as a file format to share musical/rhythmic motifs or export between music apps, not as an end product in itself.

Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by janwillemb on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:00AM (#13558269)
Midi's are also used in streetorgans. (Which sounds way too 'computerized' in my opinion. Example[1])

[1] https://youtu.be/U9dxscRz5ek

Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by mkesper on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:22AM (#13558523)
I prefer this one (no MIDI in action to see, though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnb7EqfykF4
Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by janwillemb on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:26AM (#13558744)
Ha! Nice! (After all the system used is a precursor of midi.)
Re:Show HN: AutoMIDIFlip – An automatic MIDI flipper by SeanLuke on Friday February 03, 2017 @05:58AM (#13558991)
What are "MIDIs"? MIDI is a singular mass noun, like USB or Firewire.

The MIDI protocol is still dominant in the professional field for which it was designed: controlling electronic musical instruments.

By "MIDIs" I presume you don't mean MIDI but rather so-called "MIDI Files" (SMF) and the "General MIDI" (GM) spec. This junk was originally designed for consumer-level products like Casio keyboards. General MIDI eventually devolved into the ghetto of cell phone ringtones and other trash. But don't confuse this with MIDI proper, which is a long-lived professional specification controlling often very sophisticated (and costly) devices.

Dave Smith -- largely regarded as the founder of MIDI, lamented this recently too. See 00:25 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnemYKi8Tb4