What is the MIDI Mapper?

Answer 1

The MIDI mapper in Microsoft Windows allows you to customize Windows to work with your particular MIDI hardware and software. It functions much like the Windows printer and video drivers -- once they are correctly configured, you can use any Windows program with these devices.

I'm sure you already know that Midis are music files. A MIDI file is a data file. It stores information, just like a text (ie, ASCII) file may store the text of a story or newspaper article, but a MIDI file contains musical information. Specifically, a MIDI file stores MIDI data -- the data (ie, commands) that musical instruments transmit between each other to control such things as playing notes and adjusting an instrument's sound in various ways.



http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/midi/html/midi_mapper.html

setting it up
http://www.sseyo.com/products/koanpro/html/koan_Setting_Up_the_MIDI_M.htm

Answer 2

Definitions of MIDI Mapper on the Web:

* A Windows applet that automatically maps (shifts the value of) channel, program change, and note numbers. For example, a map could cause all notes coming in on MIDI channel 3 to go out on MIDI channel 7.

Answer 3

the beginning of a long and painful nightmare ;)