Posted by WB2 on 03/26/07 02:50

On Mar 25, 2:52 pm, anira...@yahoo.com wrote:

> I consider that one of the amazing invention in the creation of
> digital music file is a midi file. Unfortunately, the inventors of
> midi music did not appear to receive acknowledgements or adequate
> praises from the general public.
> ...

You might be surprised. Although the popularity of .mid files with
the listening public may not be high, midi is more than just the
creation of .mid files. It's also a protocol to allow electronic
instruments and computers to communicate with each other, and it's
used very heavily by arrangers, bands, live concerts, television, etc.

What bugs me is that, from what I've heard, the Ipod's or other
personal digital music players don't have .mid file play capability,
but some of them have ways to convert .mid files to .mp3's, etc.
Actually, that's easy and can be done on any Windows computer as long
as your sound card is full-duplex. Just open Sound Recorder and
your .mid player at the same time, and click to record with the
former, and the play button on the latter, then save it to disk, etc.
I think it's funny that there are commercial and shareware programs
just to do that, when you can already do it easily with what comes
standard in Windows.

As far as voice capability goes, I understand that there are software
now where the vocal part can be stored in a .wav file, instruments in
the .mid file, and they're synchronized when the song is played.

When you go to a live concert and you see various keyboards and
keyboard players playing them, I believe that, more than likely, they
have soundcards inside that are doing midi processing just like the
sound card in your computer, and I have no reason to believe that the
soundcard technology in either their electronic instruments or your
computer is necessarily any better than the other.

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