MIDI

I wonder why I didn't blog about this despite being so fascinated by it. I still do not understand much about midi, cause I only use it for conventional music listening as oppose to other people who use it in music production. Midi is just like a music file, like mp3 is a music file. But if compare to mp3, midi has 100x smaller file size. I could very likely store 1000 music files in just 10 MB, when mp3 could only store like maybe 10.

How is this achieved? You know how sound is made out of waves, mp3s stores sound in form of these waves. Midi on the other hand, stores notes, instruments, times, etc... something like...a music sheet. Just imagine the difference in file size. MP3 stores waves thats why it uses more hard disk space while midi store very little data when compared. One thing to note is Midi does rely on wave, but it is stored in a sound font (just like text font, but for sound) file which is pre-installed in every pc.

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To help you get an idea of the sound of midi, I'll just post a few examples to listen to:

Gundam Invoke (58kb)

Plants vs Zombies - Zombies on ur lawn

SNSD - Gee

Just share what I some software and websites related to midi. If I don't have links, it is because their official download is gone, use google for mirrors.

Midi Players (The Windows' preinstalled one is good enough, but these for more features):

WinGroove (Can adjust instruments like a dj in real time, has reverb effects, commercial)

vanBasco (Displays lyrics, has some nice stuff)

Sound Fonts: (The Windows' preinstalled one sounds ok, but these can make some midi files sound different)

AirFont 380 (legend said to be the best sound font and is very rare 300mb+)

WeedsGM3 (Decent, recommended by the author of Synthesia)

Sound Font Installer:

BASSMIDI driver (I use it to change sound fonts)

Game that uses Midi:

Synthesia (Infact, this software made me interested in Midis)

Midi download site:

HamieNet.com (has alot of songs, has quite good features such as forum, online midi player, online midi-mp3 converter with custom soundfont)

VGMusic (Has alot of music related to video games)

There are many other midi download sites by googling "midi"

Kpop Midis

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