MIDI files

freecraft · Post by **freecraft** » July 6th, 2005, 9:41 pm

I would like to know, why MIDI isn't being used for music? Problems running midi on linux, patents problems or something third?

Btw, I found a guy who will likely compose a song for wesnoth, after he returns from camping

Post by **allefant** » July 6th, 2005, 10:55 pm

From what I remember, you can use MIDI (as well as IT/XM/S3M/MOD and anything else SDL-mixer supports..).

An obvious disadvantage of midis is that they will never sound the same, since they only store the notes and midi instrument id, but not the actual samples for the the instruments.

Post by **Aleksi** » July 6th, 2005, 11:31 pm

Forget midi. Most basic sounds just aren't good enough. OGG Vorbis is just fine.

freecraft · Post by **freecraft** » July 7th, 2005, 2:40 pm

Aleksi wrote:Forget midi. Most basic sounds just aren't good enough. OGG Vorbis is just fine.

... and just 100 times bigger filesize ...

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » July 7th, 2005, 3:01 pm

freecraft wrote:
Aleksi wrote:Forget midi. Most basic sounds just aren't good enough. OGG Vorbis is just fine.
... and just 100 times bigger filesize ...

... and just 100 times worse quality and inflexibility ...

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » July 7th, 2005, 3:55 pm

XJaPaN wrote:
... and just 100 times worse quality and inflexibility ...

How?
many people do not have a great sound library on their computers, but most composers do (I think...) which means that the music sounds better when the composers are converting it to .ogg than when the listeners are listening to the MIDI version, which sounds horrible with their crappy sound library.

And .ogg has more quality than .mp3, as well as being free.

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » July 8th, 2005, 10:53 am

Depends on your soundcard! But you can't do any cool sound effects with midi files.

Roel · Post by **Roel** » July 18th, 2005, 10:26 pm

XJaPaN wrote:Depends on your soundcard! But you can't do any cool sound effects with midi files.

midi supports lots of stuff, I think it would work fine for me but I know I don't like people listening to my tunes with a lousy soundcard.

freecraft · Post by **freecraft** » July 24th, 2005, 12:10 am

I think MIDIS are fine since 1990 so ...

OGG is ok, but only if voice is included, otherways, midi is better choice, my opinion.

Btw, my friend is doing intro music for wesnoth, I hope you will like it when he finishes it.

jimmyj · Post by **jimmyj** » July 24th, 2005, 8:50 am

Well, my midi software is horrible so i use ogg