A performance protocol, not a recording format — and a wire running at a speed fixed in 1983. Almost everything MIDI does well, and everything people blame it for, comes out of those two facts.
The most common misunderstanding about MIDI is that it is a kind of audio file — a compact way of storing sound. It is not, and almost every wrong expectation people bring to it starts there.
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