Do you guys listen MIDI music?

[rc5]

Considering their amazing size, the audio quality isn't all that bad. Although there's no human voice, it gives you a even large space to imagine and feel.

 

[yellowperil]

I have a Vortex2 Superquad, and while it is a good card for everything else, the MIDI is not so good. I have a keyboard that has good samples but haven't tried playing any music off it.

 

[sohcrates]

b4 mp3's were the rage, i had thousands of midi samples of all my fav songs...

man, we've come a long way

they're still cool to listen to every now and then

 

[linuxboy]

yes. I have collections of all my fav classical pieces. I can also convert them to sheet music using sibelius (expensive pro music soft) and play them on a keyboard if I want to really feel the music. It's actually very convenient since I have easy access to many compositions and they don't take up too much space

 

[Killbat]

The best MIDI music is that composed as MIDI, not copies of real songs.
Find anything you can by a group called "Cryogenic Emotions"

 

[rc5]

I have a crappy sound card. But I'm using Yamaha SoftSynthesizer from yamaha to listen MIDI songs. That program works under win98. It comes with a very nice jukebox which could change the tone of the MIDI and add some special efforts. I haven't seen similar program working on mp3 yet.

I feel MIDI songs are still good for classical music, but they don't sound very good on pop and rock.

 

[dc]

midi's are awesome.

 

[geno]

Are there any sites that have good techno converted to MIDI? I've heard a couple examples before but there were only a couple on the site

 

[Antoneo]

Basically only for classical pieces... SB Live is awesome esp. with soundfonts

 

[Joony]

someone list some good midi places...

 

[Lithium381]

MIDI's kick @$$!!!!

i have tons, mostly game themes, or anime midi's, since i can't understand japaneese anyways, i have 'em in mp3 format to, so i can use those if i have the urge. the latest thing ive gotten into is MOD files(MOD, XM, IT) all those, mostly techno beats, but they kick butt

try this one

<edit>fixed link</edit>

 

[Bozo Galora]

i just wish everyone could hear midi's played with the audiophile 2496 card and aego speakers

the yamaha synthesizer is good, and if you buy a phillips AE card you get the -80 version free with it. i believe the free one on their site is the -50 which doesn't have as many options

every player makes them sound different, and the type of output also changes the enjoyability. On the Yamaha you can use the midi mapper port, the FM synthesizer, MPU-401, the SXG driver, or the microsoft GS wavetable synthesizer. (You will retain all the latter if you do not override the application for midi files when installing)

I have found if you have more than one midi player active (like SXG and Windows media player) it doesn't sound as good. And of course you can download both free and pay &quot;voice sets&quot; for your midi-player, so instead of five piano voice possibilities, you can have 500.

One of many favorite sites (stride and ragtime piano) is as follows:


link

There are a few &quot;gem&quot; songs on each page for download starting with the above linked page
scroll to bottom and then go to each page for each guy:
John Arpin
Alex Hassan
Matthew Liver
Terry Parrish
John Petley
Tom Roberts
Bill Rowland
If you right click the basic windows media player pop up window (the little rectangular one) you can &quot;save as&quot; the file after you listen. Dont save while playing.
I have found that with the Yamaha Synth, the piano sounds the most natural with the FM synthesizer port (change by going to the green wrench icon)
These 10 or 12 piano pieces are my listening standard to see how good a speaker system is

www.banjo.com has dozens of bluegrass tunes.

 

[geno]

Lithium, that track was pretty good - got any more?

 

[Bozo Galora]

http://www.coho.net/~glenns/topsites/
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/2541/
http://members.xoom.com/thejmen/index.htm
http://www.spaceports.com/~bhamdave/
http://www.windowsaudio.com/midifind/
http://www.cyber-nurse.com/veetac/gm.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~anny/midis.htm
http://www.ncemsf.org/midi/polka/
http://www.icok.net/~bkd/midi/midi.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Stage/4950/
http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/2838/index2.htm
http://www.ifni.com/beatles/PleasePleaseMe.html

 

[JediKnut]

I used to love collecting them... Don't care much about them anymore!

 

[Lithium381]

heres a few more that i've got:

11
12
13
14
15

 

[Joony]

how do i play XM files?

 

[Joony]

heres one

http://www.geocities.com/will37328/jack.mid

copy and paste it...lousy geocities

 

[Deeko]

Yea....I have a few midi songs in a collection I call &quot;D Squared&quot;