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Title: MIDI files?
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on February 18, 2009

I'm looking for a very small type of file, I know of MIDI already. Is there such a thing as a good MIDI artist? I mean much of it sounds so synthetic and scratchy.

Title: Re: MIDI files?
Post by: Clyde on February 20, 2009

Id recommend you best of using a Mod or an XM. But suggesting that, I dont know if Mr Sibly has worked on the music side of BMAX for you to be able to play them.

Check this place out anyhows as it's pretty cool. If you have winamp that will play them.
http://modarchive.org/

Title: Re: MIDI files?
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on February 20, 2009

Thanks :)

Title: Re: MIDI files?
Post by: Jim on February 20, 2009

Midi only contains the note information not the sound waves or 'Patches', one reason it is so small compared to other formats.  The quality of the midi file being rendered often depends on the quality of the patch bank installed on the playback device.  There is a standard patch set called General Midi (GM) which is often used - Windows has one built in - but many musicians use midi and just associate the note data with sampled sfx or other sounds on their synth.
Closest formats you'll get to this, ie. formats that don't contain patch data, are stuff from old consoles, like SID, AHX, YM that often had custom trackers, or more recently that Farbrauch synth that Rbz has been posting library bindings for.

Jim