In the sprawling underground of digital music creation, two extremes exist. On one side, you have MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)—the rigid, 1980s-era protocol of note-on/note-off messages, designed for samplers and synthesizers. On the other, you have Bytebeat—the raw, mathematical trick of generating audio by shoving arithmetic formulas directly into a DAC at sample rate.
Bytebeat generates sound by evaluating a single mathematical formula (e.g., (t*(t>>8|t>>9)&46&t>>8)^(t&t>>13|t>>6) midi to bytebeat patched
formula = ((t >> (divisor % 8)) | (t >> v_coeff)) & 0xFF
outdata[i] = (formula / 128.0) - 1.0
t += 1
which features full MIDI implementation, or software-based solutions like Evaluator (VST/Standalone) MIDI Sequencer From Notes to Numbers: The Alchemy of "MIDI