We have done a rundown of some of the best MIDI sites below that are a full-fledged repository of free piano MIDI files, backing tracks, loops and other great resources. 1) FreeMidi.org Dedicated to the noble cause of making music more accessible to music learners across the world, Freemidi.org provides scores of MIDI files for commercial usage. This is the jazz piano site of Doug McKenzie. It contains many downloadable video files in either MP4 or WMV format and midi files of live played songs. Click on the links to access the video, audio and midi files. The audio or video files should ‘stream’ to your media player as they load. You can also view videos on my YouTube channel.
About MIDI
MIDI (an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing and recording music. The specification originates in a paper published by Dave Smith and Chet Wood then of Sequential Circuits at the October 1981 Audio Engineering Society conference in New York City then titled Universal Synthesizer Interface.
A single MIDI link through a MIDI cable can carry up to sixteen channels of information, each of which can be routed to a separate device or instrument. This could be sixteen different digital instruments, for example. MIDI carries event messages; data that specify the instructions for music, including a note's notation, pitch, velocity (which is heard typically as loudness or softness of volume); vibrato; panning to the right or left of stereo; and clock signals (which set tempo). When a musician plays a MIDI instrument, all of the key presses, button presses, knob turns and slider changes are converted into MIDI data. One common MIDI application is to play a MIDI keyboard or other controller and use it to trigger a digital sound module (which contains synthesized musical sounds) to generate sounds, which the audience hears produced by a keyboard amplifier. MIDI data can be transferred via MIDI or USB cable, or recorded to a sequencer or digital audio workstation to be edited or played back..
More info on MIDI can be found on Wikipedia - MIDI
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