What MIDI Transfer is

MIDI Transfer is a small, self-contained utility for moving files and text between machines using nothing more than a MIDI cable and a modern browser with Web MIDI support. It doesnt use HTTP, WebSocket, or any other network transport.

Instead of treating MIDI as only a music control protocol, this page treats it as a low-bandwidth, serial link. Payloads are encoded into 7-bit values, sent as Control Change events, and reconstructed on the other side by a companion tool or script.

Why it exists: privacy and locality

Some workflows do not need, or do not want, cloud storage, shared drives, or ad-hoc networks. For situations where you already have a MIDI connection between two systems, it is often simpler and more controllable to reuse that link as a basic data channel.