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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008MIDI confusion
Trying to explain to my 13 year old the difference between an audio file and a MIDI file To demonstrate, tried downloading random MIDI files off the 'net and playing with the MIDI settings in QT player to show how you can make it sound different. Problem was, there were no MIDI settings in QT player. It was as if they were audio files rather than MIDI. But I'm sure that's not the case. There were a number of them from different sources, and in every case the finder said they were MIDI files. What am I doing wrong? MBP 10.4.10 QT player 7.4.1 Pro Thanks for any pointers > To demonstrate, tried downloading random MIDI files off the 'net and > playing with the MIDI settings in QT player to show how you can make it > sound different. If you've got Garageband installed you can drap and drop MIDI files into a new project, and then play with instrument settings to your heart's content. >>To demonstrate, tried downloading random MIDI files off the 'net and >>playing with the MIDI settings in QT player to show how you can make it [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > into a new project, and then play with instrument settings to your > heart's content. Something wrong..... GB won't open the files. Obvious answer is that something is wrong with the files. But this happens to any / every MIDI file I download. Can't be right. Maybe my QT is broken ??? > Something wrong..... GB won't open the files. > > Obvious answer is that something is wrong with the files. But this > happens to any / every MIDI file I download. Can't be right. Garageband won't open MIDI files, but they can be dragged and dropped from the Finder into an existing project. It'll then use software instruments to render the music. Unfortunately without and extra Jam Packs there's only a limited number of instruments available to play with. > Trying to explain to my 13 year old the difference between an > audio file and a MIDI file Try this on him/her: an audio file is like the actual comic book; but a MIDI file is like a set of instructions on how to draw that book, which would be obeyed a little bit differently by different comic book artists, colourists and letters, giving the same story (pretty much) but different versions of it. Howzat?  SignatureAndrew Stephenson > > Trying to explain to my 13 year old the difference between an > > audio file and a MIDI file [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > comic book artists, colourists and letters, giving the same story > (pretty much) but different versions of it. Howzat? Like Goscinny's typing and Uderzo's drawing. Unfortunately comic books are rarely produced twice by differnet artists. Why not compare it to a musical score on paper? Jan |
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