Some of the songs are so professionally done that they sound like the original recordings. I have used MIDI song files for years on various digital pianos and I really like them. Generally speaking these MIDI playback & recording digital pianos with authentic piano touch & tone have been very expensive starting at $3000 on up, so few people wanted to spend that kind of money, but that is changing now due to some lower prices. There are certain digital pianos (with the General MIDI format) made to accept these new kinds of devices so that MIDI songs can be played, recorded, and saved. Piano students can purchase entire lesson book MIDI song accompaniments as well.įor years the MIDI songs were available on floppy disk, but since that format is now extinct, USB flash drives (left pic) have pretty much taken over as storage memory devices for digital pianos. The more authentic & professional sounding the song is, the more money it typically will cost. The MIDI songs can be downloaded from on-line MIDI song web sites for about $1-$5 each, and there are also web sites that provide free MIDI songs although they may not sound as good. Thousands upon thousands of songs in every style and era are available including Classical Beethoven & Bach, Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Carrie Underwood, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Michael Buble, Kelly Clarkson, Celine, Big Band, Swing, R&B, Latin, Rock, Christian, Broadway, Waltz, Movie themes, Disney, Children's music, current pop, jazz, blues, Latin, you name it and you can probably get it! Just about any song, composer, or band you can think of has their music in a General MIDI format. This gives the piano the ability to playback & record big orchestral, rhythmic, and other styles of music. This song format is designed to play up to 16 separate instrument parts including percussion (from a general menu of up to 128 instrument sounds or more) which can play simultaneously on an General MIDI equipped digital instrument or device that can take a digital memory device like a USB flashdrive. General MIDI was developed in the early '90's and is available in various brands and models of new digital pianos. When your computer is playing music through a program like a game, etc, that music is using the General MIDI multi-instrument format from your computer soundcard which is located inside your computer. " General MIDI " (aka: GM) is a standardized format of instrument sounds & effects that refers to the playing of actual songs in a General MIDI or multi-instrument MIDI equipped digital piano.
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