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\ Sound Cards - Sound Fonts - MIDI Players - Your Computer
MIDI Help and Credits This page gives a general explanation of MIDI music and general instructions on how to set up the synthesizer on your system to achieve the best sound results. MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Midi files are music files in which the sounds of the instruments are produced by your computer using a synthesizer (synthetic music). The MIDI files contain instructions on how your computer should generate the synthetic music. Since MIDIs only produce the sounds of musical instruments, there will be no voice (singing) on them. On a good system the music is indistinguishable from actual recorded music. Sound Cards You have a sound card in your computer (includes synthesizer software) that produces the sounds you hear. Not all sound cards are created equal! If you have an older computer chances are your sound card is not up-to-date. I use a Creative Labs "Audigy Platinum EX" card and it performs excellently. Excellent sound cards are currently inexpensive, so you may want to consider an update. Make sure your computer system sound properties (in Control Panel for Windows® users) point to the correct sound settings for your sound card. Sound Fonts Your synthesizer probably has a choice of "Sound Fonts" (software - also often called "Sound Banks" or "Wave Tables") that determine the sound of the individual instruments. You may have many "Sound Fonts" and each one will sound different. You can probably choose which "Sound Font" you want to produce the sound in your sound card synthesizer (see your sound card properties). I recommend you try all of them to see which "Sound Font" sounds best to you. Also make sure your computer system sound properties (in Control Panel for Windows® users) point to the correct sound settings for your sound card. Midi Players There are many midi players! All midi players are NOT equal! Your sound card comes with one. Windows Media Player has one. You may have downloaded a "Quicktime" player from "Apple", which has a midi player. Most have their own "Sound Font" which may or may not be the best "Sound Font" on your system. I suggest you try all of them and assign the one that sounds (and works) best as your default midi player. Your Computer As with other programs MIDIs need enough computing power to process the files. If you don't have enough processing power the MIDIs may skip, stop, or play erratically. You may be able to close other programs running in the background to correct this. The scripts for the Random Music players were written by Wayne "Gringoloco" Fetherbay of Gringoloco Graphics. The Random Music players are a free service by Gringoloco Graphics available to non-commercial web sites. There are currently 9 random juke box type players available. They are "Jazzy & Snazzy", "Easy Listening", "Random Western Music", "Random Bluegrass Music", "Random Irish Music", "Random Classical Music", and "The Little Music Box" (with children's traditional sing-alongs), "Christmas Music", and "Harmonica Jukebox". Many of the Random Music Players also have a cute little dance scene done using DHTML. Other scripts will be added as time permits. Feel free to add a Random Music Player to your site! Click For Instructions The MIDI files are either sequenced by Gringoloco Graphics or versions of MIDIs (believed to be public domain property) sequenced by others and modified by Gringoloco Graphics. If you feel that you have a copyright on any of the MIDIs please notify Gringoloco Graphics. If the copyright is valid the MIDI will be removed or you will be given credit (at your option). The sequences by others include:
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