Am I weird for enjoying MIDI files?
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So.... 20+ years ago I remember when there was no proper internet or PC power to use MP3 as ordinarily as we do today. Back in the day a midi file was a treat.
Fast forward.... I recently stumbled upon an article about classical music, and thought I would listen to some Mozart or Beethoven or whatever... And noticed for classical music the midi files actually sound nice!
I know I know, those are not "music files", they only have the information of what to play and the decoder (Timidity is in the repos) does the sound work. But hey, it sounds great!
Am I too weird for in an age of HD and 10.2 surround, I prefer to listen to midi files that only "emulate" the classical music?
Also, as you probably guessed, I know next to nothing about classical music, so if anyone else is an expert, please do share some suggestions. I prefer slow relaxing tunes :)
Thanks!
Like from here? https://kunstderfuge.com/beethoven/sonatas.htm
It depends. I downloaded a Beethoven piano piece, and it sounded pretty good. But then I downloaded the allegro from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik which has a lot of string music, and it has too much of that annoying midi vibration sound, doesn't sound accurate or good.
I agree, that one doesn't sound very good. I do prefer some others.
I'm not sure, but I'd guess that it doesn't really matter, and perhaps it's just an issue of skill with the music arranger?
I can actually agree that some don't sound too good (or sound good only up to a certain part).
Here, I share 3 that I actually enjoyed. I do prefer violin and piano, not sure what other instruments sound good or bad (had to compress them, sorry, forum won't allow MID files).
Also, Timidity plays well, but I wonder if there are other better players for Trisquel?
In the old days I remember it had a lot to do with the hardware (SB24 was great, OPL3 was meh but ok, other soundcards were usually bad). I think here it's the CPU doing the work. So different players could provide better sound?
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had to compress them
You did not compress. A .tar archive is essentially all files concatenated. Compressed with XZ, the attached ~23 minutes of music weight fewer than 23.4 kB.
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You are quite right. I didn't know that.
Funny thing at first I tried zipping them, and the Forum wouldn't allow the zip format. I then used TAR. But the funny thing is I did noticed the difference between TAR and ZIP files. I didn't know though that TAR was different in that manner. Thanks!
Btw, anyone feel free to comment what you think of these musics. Like I said, in Timidity I think they sound very nice, simple yet enjoyable.
I used wildmidi from the command line to play these tunes. It's a small, simple program, in the Trisquel repo.
I did think of installing wildmidi (and playmid as well) but I doubt I will notice any difference. I am not really much of a music expert, lol.
Timidity has the advantage of a GUI (I do prefer to have one at this point, CLI are great to have though!)
Thanks!
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Hi,
I never tried timidity. I compose midi files by myself. You can enjoy midi files with using musescore3, an application for notation, for example. It uses soundfonts so you can hear the notes. I would give it a try and watch the notes while listening! for my own compositions I use my own instruments. For this I use samplv1 that has midi-in.
I suggest to you "Chopin - Nocturnes". Slow, deep and relaxing piano music.
I am not much a music guy myself lol. I only like to listen but can't even make much of what I hear.
That's actually one that I have listened to many times already :D I did love it.
If you could suggest other similar ones I would be very grateful, I did get a great sense of relaxation from Nocturnes.
Thanks!
A few more that I have enjoyed:
scarlatti sonata k32 d minor (no idea what k32 means)
Pachelbel canon in d
Autumn
I think I kinda prefer violin and piano together, but some multiple strings together (violin, viola, etc) also sound good.
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scarlatti sonata k32 d minor:
Hello, K stands for Ralph Kirkpatrick, 32 the number of the edition
Kirkpatrick an others released scarlatti's work if I understand right. (for people who want to buy a print?)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solo_keyboard_sonatas_by_Domenico_Scarlatti (where you can also listen to music)
Thank you a lot!
I didn't know that :D
In the wiki page only find piano solos, I actually enjoy mixes with piano and violin (or multiple strings).
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Something about midi I have heard:
A lot of music that you can listen on the radio is using midi. So perfectly played parts are possible. But it is also possible to "humanize" these midi notes by using BSchaffl, a lv2-plugin. I was using this already, too. A lot of things are possible with midi, like using a sampler, like I mentioned above. Hardware with midi support (synthesizer, keyboards, midi-controllers, sampler, ...) are also on the market and are widely used till today.
Actually, not even close. I love midis too and for that matter old graphics of DOS games as well. Aka, really old games from before the 2000s.
The more modern computer games get, the more I start to lose interest.
I play computer games to escape reality as much as possible usually.
Unless its an online game of course. But those are usually unwise.
I should add, when I say old games, stuff that looks like old DOS games as well.
Yeah, your username checks out as a DOS era lover ;)
I also enjoy from time to time to check on old DOS stuff, or modern stuff for old DOS.
Though the midi I was referring to was (in this particular case) classical music, and not DOS games era kinda music.
Odd.. when I think of DOS I always think of the system not anything else.
Very strange.
Chex Quest, Cosmos Cosmic Adventures and of course DOOM and DOOM2 are all DOS games.
The 2nd game has like at least half of their tracks are good for falling asleep to if you are a childhood fan of that game.
:D
They are relaxing ya know?
Teck 4 especially.
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