Favorite Midis? (preferably on youtubes)

[kenbobo]

I know this is weird, but I was listening to a MIDI that called itself a Kareoke Track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvfebbxKaqY

Go ahead and post your favorite Midis!

[gamowin]

Nah but really,

Edited July 22, 2015 by gamowin

[HoloYolo]

What are they?

[WinkAllKerb'']

[TrainEngie]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=midi+file information on midis.

[Flymetothemun]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=midi+file information on midis.

Better Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI#File_formats

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/midi-file.htm (I know it's about.com but they have pretty good dead-simple explanations sometimes)

http://en.wikiaudio.org/MIDI_file

http://www.midishack.net/midiinfo.htm

http://www.monster-tracks.com/aboutmidi.html

http://www.midi.org/techspecs/index.php (Very technical)

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/express/issue18/midifilespart1.html

Just linking to Google isn't a good way to give information. Google can present false information or information of a caliber or density that isn't needed for the topic or able to be understood. Also, I think people know how to execute a web search at this stage of the game.

Also, DuckDuckGo's better, in my personal opinion.

Edited July 22, 2015 by Flymetothemun

[windows_x_seven]

I twerk to that every once in a while.

[tg626]

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface was a universally agreed upon way to interconnect keyboard instruments and various devices that could record their output and play it back later.

The fact is that a so called "MIDI" (file) can sound just as authentic as the synthesizer/sampler it's connected to, but the term has come to mean a recording of such a file being used to trigger an older FM synthesizer which, like so called "chip tunes" can be easily identified by it's unique tone which at times bears little resemblance to the real world instrument it was meant to replicate.

Today, MIDI has been largely supplanted by the use of USB.

[pincushionman]

I know this is weird, but I was listening to a MIDI that called itself a Kareoke Track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvfebbxKaqY

Go ahead and post your favorite Midis!

Not a midi file, and not a .kar either; but the music sounds like it would have been sequenced by software that could be used to make .mids. Except the voice track. That means it was something else. .st3 files can do graphics, but again not voice. Tough to say exactly how it was put together, but ultimately it was recorded to video and published that way.

I was into .midis way back in the '90's, but with everybody having high-speed internet and huge hard drives, as well as good audio compression (.mp3, .aac, .ogg, etc.), the chief advantages of the format (uber-small file size) are largely unimportant anymore for consumers.

Still very important for musicians transferring work amongst themselves, though. I'm sure NovaSilisko has the plenty of knowledge and opinions on the subject; more than me since I've been out of the scene for some time.

[T-Bouw]

The soundtrack of Tyrian 2000 is among my favorite MIDI-songs of the nineties!

[windows_x_seven]

Oh, this one is also very good:

[moogoob]

http://vgmusic.com/

This site is still around!!!! It's been around since 1996 and was among the very first websites I visited more than once (probably around then, too as I didn't get access to the net until 96-97 through school). It's an archive of video game music in MIDI format.

I remember putting midi files on a floppy to take home from school

A FLOPPY.

Edited July 23, 2015 by moogoob

[Starwhip]

[longbyte1]

http://vgmusic.com/

This site is still around!!!! It's been around since 1996 and was among the very first websites I visited more than once (probably around then, too as I didn't get access to the net until 96-97 through school). It's an archive of video game music in MIDI format.

I remember putting midi files on a floppy to take home from school

A FLOPPY.

Yeah I have this bookmarked on my browser and was about to say something about it. Really good stuff. Doesn't have everything, but it does have a large portion of it.

Also don't forget to run your MIDIs through GXSCC for +5 coolness.

[JetJaguar]

That site looks like web pages did back in 1996, too. It's like a time capsule.

I had a pretty large library of MIDI's back then. Most people think they sound terrible, but that's because of the crappy FM synthesizer chip computers generally come with. My computer back then had a soundcard with wavetable samples, and MIDI's sounded fairly realistic (though I remember it never could do a really convincing guitar). I would load them up in Winamp (remember that?) and leave them playing in the background.

In the mid-90's I had my own personal web page, and I had a section on there where I posted up the best MIDI's I had, maybe around a hundred of them. Then one day I got an email from the Harry Fox Agency demanding that either the MIDI's be taken down, or I pay a mechanical reproduction fee that was something ridiculous - IIRC, something like $36 per download. So, that was the end of that. Kids these days, with the iTunes and the Pandoras and the Blueteeth, may not realize that at one time the music industry actively fought to keep music off the internet.

[WinkAllKerb'']

remind me that old hdd sector boot wiped with over 10 000 mp3 ; ) rip my old hdd never mind now we have you tube, ru tube, daily motion etc ...

Edited July 24, 2015 by WinkAllKerb''

[T-Bouw]

Wow! You guys are my heroes!

That site vgmusic along with GXSCC as player really does a number on my nostalgia!

Before we had a 486, we had an MSX. That thing was awesome. My family and I played on it all the time.