Listing of MIDI Status Codes
TABLE 1: Summary of MIDI Status & Data Bytes
(adapted from "MIDI by the Numbers" by D. Valenti, Elec Musician mag 2/88)
STATUS BYTE | DATA BYTES
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1st Byte Value | Function | 2nd | 3rd
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Binary |Hex| Dec| | |
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10000000= 80= 128| Chan 1 Note off | Note Number | Note Velocity
10000001= 81= 129| Chan 2 " | (0-127) | (0-127)
10000010= 82= 130| Chan 3 " | see | "
10000011= 83= 131| Chan 4 " | Table | "
10000100= 84= 132| Chan 5 " | 2 | "
10000101= 85= 133| Chan 6 " | " | "
10000110= 86= 134| Chan 7 " | " | "
10000111= 87= 135| Chan 8 " | " | "
10001000= 88= 136| Chan 9 " | " | "
10001001= 89= 137| Chan 10 " | " | "
10001010= 8A= 138| Chan 11 " | " | "
10001011= 8B= 139| Chan 12 " | " | "
10001100= 8C= 140| Chan 13 " | " | "
10001101= 8D= 141| Chan 14 " | " | "
10001110= 8E= 142| Chan 15 " | " | "
10001111= 8F= 143| Chan 16 " | " | "
10010000= 90= 144| Chan 1 Note on | " | "
10010001= 91= 145| Chan 2 " | " | "
10010010= 92= 146| Chan 3 " | " | "
10010011= 93= 147| Chan 4 " | " | "
10010100= 94= 148| Chan 5 " | " | "
10010101= 95= 149| Chan 6 " | " | "
10010110= 96= 150| Chan 7 " | " | "
10010111= 97= 151| Chan 8 " | " | "
10011000= 98= 152| Chan 9 " | " | "
10011001= 99= 153| Chan 10 " | " | "
10011010= 9A= 154| Chan 11 " | " | "
10011011= 9B= 155| Chan 12 " | " | "
10011100= 9C= 156| Chan 13 " | " | "
10011101= 9D= 157| Chan 14 " | " | "
10011110= 9E= 158| Chan 15 " | " | "
10011111= 9F= 159| Chan 16 " | " | "
10100000= A0= 160| Chan 1 Polyphonic | " | Aftertouch
10100001= A1= 161| Chan 2 aftertouch | " | pressure
10100010= A2= 162| Chan 3 " | " | (0-127)
10100011= A3= 163| Chan 4 " | " | "
10100100= A4= 164| Chan 5 " | " | "
10100101= A5= 165| Chan 6 " | " | "
10100110= A6= 166| Chan 7 " | " | "
10100111= A7= 167| Chan 8 " | " | "
10101000= A8= 168| Chan 9 " | " | "
10101001= A9= 169| Chan 10 " | " | "
10101010= AA= 170| Chan 11 " | " | "
10101011= AB= 171| Chan 12 " | " | "
10101100= AC= 172| Chan 13 " | " | "
10101101= AD= 173| Chan 14 " | " | "
10101110= AE= 174| Chan 15 " | " | "
10101111= AF= 175| Chan 16 " | " | "
10110000= B0= 176| Chan 1 Control/ | See | See
10110001= B1= 177| Chan 2 Mode change | Table | Table
10110010= B2= 178| Chan 3 " | three | three
10110011= B3= 179| Chan 4 " | " | "
10110100= B4= 180| Chan 5 " | " | "
10110101= B5= 181| Chan 6 " | " | "
10110110= B6= 182| Chan 7 " | " | "
10110111= B7= 183| Chan 8 " | " | "
10111000= B8= 184| Chan 9 " | " | "
10111001= B9= 185| Chan 10 " | " | "
10111010= BA= 186| Chan 11 " | " | "
10111011= BB= 187| Chan 12 " | " | "
10111100= BC= 188| Chan 13 " | " | "
10111101= BD= 189| Chan 14 " | " | "
10111110= BE= 190| Chan 15 " | " | "
10111111= BF= 191| Chan 16 " | " | "
11000000= C0= 192| Chan 1 Program | Program # | NONE
11000001= C1= 193| Chan 2 change | (0-127) | "
11000010= C2= 194| Chan 3 " | " | "
11000011= C3= 195| Chan 4 " | " | "
11000100= C4= 196| Chan 5 " | " | "
11000101= C5= 197| Chan 6 " | " | "
11000110= C6= 198| Chan 7 " | " | "
11000111= C7= 199| Chan 8 " | " | "
11001000= C8= 200| Chan 9 " | " | "
11001001= C9= 201| Chan 10 " | " | "
11001010= CA= 202| Chan 11 " | " | "
11001011= CB= 203| Chan 12 " | " | "
11001100= CC= 204| Chan 13 " | " | "
11001101= CD= 205| Chan 14 " | " | "
11001110= CE= 206| Chan 15 " | " | "
11001111= CF= 207| Chan 16 " | " | "
11010000= D0= 208| Chan 1 Channel | Aftertouch | "
11010001= D1= 209| Chan 2 aftertouch | pressure | "
11010010= D2= 210| Chan 3 " | (0-127) | "
11010011= D3= 211| Chan 4 " | " | "
11010100= D4= 212| Chan 5 " | " | "
11010101= D5= 213| Chan 6 " | " | "
11010110= D6= 214| Chan 7 " | " | "
11010111= D7= 215| Chan 8 " | " | "
11011000= D8= 216| Chan 9 " | " | "
11011001= D9= 217| Chan 10 " | " | "
11011010= DA= 218| Chan 11 " | " | "
11011011= DB= 219| Chan 12 " | " | "
11011100= DC= 220| Chan 13 " | " | "
11011101= DD= 221| Chan 14 " | " | "
11011110= DE= 222| Chan 15 " | " | "
11011111= DF= 223| Chan 16 " | " | "
11100000= E0= 224| Chan 1 Pitch | Pitch | Pitch
11100001= E1= 225| Chan 2 wheel | wheel | wheel
11100010= E2= 226| Chan 3 range | LSB | MSB
11100011= E3= 227| Chan 4 " | (0-127) | (0-127)
11100100= E4= 228| Chan 5 " | " | "
11100101= E5= 229| Chan 6 " | " | "
11100110= E6= 230| Chan 7 " | " | "
11100111= E7= 231| Chan 8 " | " | "
11101000= E8= 232| Chan 9 " | " | "
11101001= E9= 233| Chan 10 " | " | "
11101010= EA= 234| Chan 11 " | " | "
11101011= EB= 235| Chan 12 " | " | "
11101100= EC= 236| Chan 13 " | " | "
11101101= ED= 237| Chan 14 " | " | "
11101110= EE= 238| Chan 15 " | " | "
11101111= EF= 239| Chan 16 " | " | "
11110000= F0= 240| System Exclusive | ** | **
11110001= F1= 241| System Common - undefined | ? | ?
11110010= F2= 242| Sys Com Song Position Pntr | LSB | MSB
11110011= F3= 243| Sys Com Song Select(Song #)| (0-127) | NONE
11110100= F4= 244| System Common - undefined | ? | ?
11110101= F5= 245| System Common - undefined | ? | ?
11110110= F6= 246| Sys Com tune request | NONE | NONE
11110111= F7= 247| Sys Com-end of SysEx (EOX) | " | "
11111000= F8= 248| Sys real time timing clock | " | "
11111001= F9= 249| Sys real time undefined | " | "
11111010= FA= 250| Sys real time start | " | "
11111011= FB= 251| Sys real time continue | " | "
11111100= FC= 252| Sys real time stop | " | "
11111101= FD= 253| Sys real time undefined | " | "
11111110= FE= 254| Sys real time active sensing| " | "
11111111= FF= 255| Sys real time sys reset | " | "
** Note: System Exclusive (data dump) 2nd byte= Vendor ID followed by more
data bytes and ending with EOX.