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Archonian
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Sweden, Malmoe
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 11-03-2003 01:39

Hello.

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

Dracusis
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: Brisbane, Australia
Insane since: Apr 2001

posted posted 11-03-2003 02:12

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.



Xpirex
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Dammed if I know...
Insane since: Mar 2003

posted posted 11-03-2003 08:46

I guess that told him...

Archonian
Nervous Wreck (II) Inmate

From: Sweden, Malmoe
Insane since: Jan 2003

posted posted 11-03-2003 10:51

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.

Skaarjj
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: :morF
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 11-03-2003 11:39

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

NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

posted posted 11-03-2003 12:04

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.

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