MIDI files

MIDI is a flexible and low bandwidth technology for sonifying the web, games, ringtones, music composition, live performance,synthesizer programming and other multimedia. The tradeoff for small file size is varying playback on different sound cards. Sound cards have a variety of synthesis methods: two common ones are wavetable (sample based) and FM (frequency modulation) synthesis. Wavetable samples sound more realistic than the mathematical tones of FM. Listen and download MIDI files below.

Fusion Groove - 4 piece fusion unit

Big Band - jazz ensemble evoking memories of Doc Severenson on the Tonight Show

An eleven count - mellow and jazzier

FunPop - bubblegum pop for the kids

Island - reggae tropical groove

Sunday - mellow afternoon

Freedom - inspired by flying over canyons...exhilarating

Groove - rhythmic clavinet drives this one

Turn Up the volume - this MIDI file plays no music but instead maxes the volume on your MIDI playback device (to geek out, specifically, Volume Controller 7 value 127 messages to all 16 MIDI channels). Sometimes this may be why you can not hear MIDI well or at very reduced levels.