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MIDI...
First, an intro on MIDI. MIDI stands for Musical Instrument
Digital Interface. So what's that mean? It uses sound devices
on PC's and Macs to do music. It's not "taping" sounds...it's
recreating them.
MIDI uses various commands to make music happen. Note
On makes a note play and Note Off makes
it stop. Key pressure works like a piano.
Sometimes it's called velocity. And the higher
the number, the harder the pressure and the louder the note.
Controller Change tells the computer to use the
foot petals for sustain or quiet or such, or also modulation
wheels (to transpose the music) or volume sliders. Finally is
a Program Change. This is when a channel changes
from one instrument to another. Say channel 11 was a clarinet
for the first 54 measures and later on I decide that it should
be a trumpet, that would be a program change.
General MIDI Facts
- 128 standard voices, in 16 families of 8 instruments
- Channel 10 strictly used for percussion. 46 percussive
sounds at specific note numbers. In plain English, each sound
(snare drum, crash cymbal, bongos, etc) have a specific piano
key, and it's the same on all keyboards and sound boards
- Mode 3 -- Standard. This means that each channel plays any
and all notes sent to it, whether it's one or a million, until
the synthesizer can play no more.
- Minimum 24 voice polyphony and 24 multi-timbral voices. In
other words 24 notes to be played at once.
Wow, sounds confusing, don't it? Yeah, it does. Well, it
really isn't because you don't have to deal with it exactly like
that. All these MIDI were composed and/or arranged using
Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0. What you do with this is paste ordinary-looking whole or eighth or whatever length of notes you need onto an ordinary looking staff.
So what's this mean to you? Maybe not much. Maybe nothing
at all. But to me making my music public is my pride and joy and the original writings in my Big Book of Staff Paper along with the lyrics here and there are only way I can express myself. Following this pragraph is my list of MIDI.
Omar! Originals
- The Dance
- Untitled
- Untitled 2
- Untitled 3
- Another Untitled
- Yet Another Untitled
- Touch Me --lyrics by Eddie Rick
- You Guessed It...Untitled
- Untitled, needs help
- Most Famous Untitled Work
- One More Untitled
- Untitled, Unfinished
- DragonChlyde --for Creed
- No Fears Text available here.
- Omar's Lament
- Smile
- Waves
- Heart of Gold
- The Difference Text available here.
- The North Wind
- Can't Break Out
- Illusionary
- Screaming in Silence
- Everything I'd Hope to Be
- Thank You For Your Love words by Jimmy Gialelis
- Please Let Me Love You words by Jimmy Gialelis
- When I Close My Eyes words by Jimmy Gialelis
Other Peoples' Stuff Arranged by Omar!
- Rave Dancetune by Tommy Tollarico from Cool Spot (Virgin Games)
- Axel F Artist Unknown...please help!
- Miki Finn I have NO idea who wrote the music, nor do I really care. All I know is that it's � Excalibur Films, Inc. I did this for miss Micki's place in web world
One last thing I HAD to include was "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.
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