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by sigg3 1473 days ago
I love but really only tinker with sound. But my first webpages in the '90s had MIDI so I have fond memories of downloading file after file and creating catalogs of sci-fi and fantasy music for roleplaying stuff or webpages (sorry).

People who got into the internet after the mp3 revolution may not appreciate how awesome mods and MIDIs were, in a world where WAVs took forever to download over brittle 56K connections (and Realmedia never became mainstream in my country).

Edit: what I wanted to say that for me MIDI was Internet music, the markup language of sound and orchestra. Thank you!

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One of my hobbies is loading some old MIDI file from the era into Logic Pro X and produce a finished track using all my synths. Results are surprising, some times I think "the guy who tracked this MIDI didn't know it could sound so well!"