Posted by Laurence Payne on 03/26/07 11:37

On 25 Mar 2007 21:02:37 -0700, aniramca@yahoo.com wrote:

> I still wonder, despite
>of the 30 years or more of the midi invention, that they managed to
>package the sound of an instrument (such as piano or other
>instruments) into those tiny storage file.

They didn't. They recorded the information of which notes to play.
YOU had to provide the instrument. If all you have available is the
built-in synth in Windows, you'll recognise that it IS a piano, and
what the tune is. If you provide an expensive and large multi-sampled
"virtual piano" and have good speakers, it can be pretty realistic.

But all MIDI is providing is the piano-roll. It's your job to insert
it into a rattletrap pub piano or a Steinway grand.

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