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How to Put Sound and Music on Your Web Site
MIDI - MP3 - WAV - AU - SND MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface - in computer science, a serial interface standard that allows for the connection of music synthesizers, musical instruments, and computers. MIDI files are composed of numbers - different than WAV or MP3 files - so file size is much, much smaller. That makes them ideal for web sites. Using MIDI, computers, synthesizers, and sequencers can communicate with each other. The standardization of MIDI by the major synthesizer manufacturers is partially responsible for the huge success of computers in the music profession. It allows musicians to be more creative on stage and in the studio. It also allows musicians to distribute music in a standard format What does this mean? Well, if you're like me it doesn't mean all that much. The only thing I can use midi for is to embed sounds into my web page, and give them a bit of a personal touch! If I want to listen to my favorite band, I'm going to buy the CD. You won't catch me banging my head to a midi! On the other hand, midi to a musician has become a huge deal. It gives a musician another medium of which to work with. It allows them to be creative on a www level. Most music today (except for vocals) is done on MIDI keyboards, even in the fanciest studios. They are much, much smaller (read "faster to load") than WAV or even MP3 files. Whereas an MP3 file may be 3-4Mb, the same MIDI file may be only 30-50Kb. The downside is quality, because MIDI files sound good or bad depending upon the sound card, processor and speaker system of the end user, far more than MP3 or WAV. WHat sounds terrible on one machine may sound great on another. Can you convert WAV files to MIDI format? I'm sorry but no! You cannot convert a wav file to a midi file, because the wav file does not say which note to play! The way to make a midi file is to play it on a synthesizer, create it with your mouse on a computer with sequence software, or to use other midi devices, such as guitar midi converters. Some people sell or even give away so-called MIDI to WAV converter programs but they are terrible!!! | ||||||||||||||||||
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