Topic awaiting preservation: Midi Sound Effects (Page 1 of 1)

Hello.

Does anyone know where to find soundeffects, in midi format, if there is such a thing ?

MIDI, which is a acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface is, as the name suggests, instrument based as opposed to most digital 'audio' formats which are wave based. The reason why midi is so small is because it's just a series of notes (as opposed to millions of numbers representing sound waves) that your sound card then uses to interpolate into various instruments, which is why it sounds sooo crappy, at least compared to a recording of the real thing.

In short -- no, there is no such things as a midi sound effect as you can't actually *record* sound waves in midi, just notes and their corresponding instrument types.

I guess that told him...

I do understand that midifiles are just instructions, but those instructions could maybe be used to simulate sounds, sounding like explosions or whatever.

It can be done with a damn PC Speaker, so I was thinking, maybe it could be done with midifiles.

What you're looking for then are called SoundFonts, they're like the PC version of the MIDI samples that MIDI processors lay over the instructions contained in MIDI files

I have a cd 'sounds of multimedia' with a bunch of midi sound fx... squeaking door... dog barking cars racing etc....but they're all pretty cheesey. If you head down to your local computer store you'll likely be able to find something similar on one of those cd shareware racks.