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Oh, definitely. Even after MP3 compression came along, MIDI and MOD files were just so much smaller and quicker to download over a modem at my baud rate.

• pantulis 4y ago
  I collected them from FTP sites and still keep them (later on vanbasco.com made hoarding MIDIs unnecessary) One of my guilty pleasures is to get a well done MIDI file from that era and render it using my Kronos and Logic loaded with NI, Arturia stuff. It’s impressive how you can produce something that was basically inconceivable to the original MIDI author that was using perhaps a Gravis Ultrasound.
  • pantulis 4y ago
    Just in case someone is curious, from my archive this MIDI file is from Aug, 1994 (!!!) and renders like this: https://soundcloud.com/pantulis/swing-out-sister-breakout https://soundcloud.com/pantulis/swing-out-sister-breakout
    • cainxinth 4y ago
      That was awesome!