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Sucks that I can’t seem to listen to these on mobile. Does iOS Safari not ship with a midi player?

by Waterluvian 3y ago

hcarrega 3y ago
Try this https://apps.apple.com/app/id393964792 https://apps.apple.com/app/id393964792
- ace2358 3y ago
  This app looks great. Any recommendations on where to get files compatible with this?
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  Oh wow. An app that you just pay for once and that’s it. I’m in love.
londons_explore 3y ago
Midi has been kinda dying - android can't play them out of the box either, nor Ubuntu.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  For the uninitiated: MIDI is a fundamentally different ideology of storing sound compared to MP3, AAC, and so on. Whereas MP3 and their brethren store actual sound data, MIDI stores what is most easily described as musical scores. When you play a MIDI file, you are expected to literally provide the musical instruments to play the musical score with. In the past this was provided by your sound card with a synthesizer, and in more recent times provided by your operating system as a software synthesizer. The reason behind MIDI being structured this way was to reduce file size. Remember, we are talking the 1980s when MIDI was invented; disk space was expensive. Storing the raw sound data requires a lot of space, but MIDI only needs to store the musical scores which are significantly smaller. The actual sounds were stored locally and synthesized by the sound card. In an era where disk space is worth pennies, MIDI is an obsolete solution for a problem of a bygone age. But the technical considerations and compromises that went into its design and the innovative creations that composers made within the technical restrictions imposed are nonetheless a hallmark of computing history.
  - boredhedgehog 3y ago
    I'd say the openness of the format deserves more recognition and is far from obsolete. Its rightful successor is tracker music, which includes the instrument samples along with the musical score. Pure waveform is a lot like closed-source software, with many inherent drawbacks.
  - bzzzt 3y ago
    MIDI was designed as a way to link up a controller like a piano keyboard to a synthesizer and transmit the notes being played. In that area it's certainly not obsolete: synthesizers still transmit and receive MIDI messages and sequencer software still records them. It's the only sane way to edit and view note data because you can't edit audio easily to change a few notes. As a way of transmitting musical scores it's obsolete, but mostly because it was really hard to get MIDI soundtracks to sound as intended because there were so many different synthesizer implementations.
  - deleted 3y ago
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Sucks that I can’t seem to listen to these on mobile. Does iOS Safari not ship with a midi player?

hcarrega 3y ago

Try this https://apps.apple.com/app/id393964792 https://apps.apple.com/app/id393964792

ace2358 3y ago
This app looks great. Any recommendations on where to get files compatible with this?
Waterluvian 3y ago
Oh wow. An app that you just pay for once and that’s it. I’m in love.

londons_explore 3y ago

Midi has been kinda dying - android can't play them out of the box either, nor Ubuntu.

Dalewyn 3y ago
For the uninitiated: MIDI is a fundamentally different ideology of storing sound compared to MP3, AAC, and so on. Whereas MP3 and their brethren store actual sound data, MIDI stores what is most easily described as musical scores. When you play a MIDI file, you are expected to literally provide the musical instruments to play the musical score with. In the past this was provided by your sound card with a synthesizer, and in more recent times provided by your operating system as a software synthesizer. The reason behind MIDI being structured this way was to reduce file size. Remember, we are talking the 1980s when MIDI was invented; disk space was expensive. Storing the raw sound data requires a lot of space, but MIDI only needs to store the musical scores which are significantly smaller. The actual sounds were stored locally and synthesized by the sound card. In an era where disk space is worth pennies, MIDI is an obsolete solution for a problem of a bygone age. But the technical considerations and compromises that went into its design and the innovative creations that composers made within the technical restrictions imposed are nonetheless a hallmark of computing history.
- boredhedgehog 3y ago
  I'd say the openness of the format deserves more recognition and is far from obsolete. Its rightful successor is tracker music, which includes the instrument samples along with the musical score. Pure waveform is a lot like closed-source software, with many inherent drawbacks.
- bzzzt 3y ago
  MIDI was designed as a way to link up a controller like a piano keyboard to a synthesizer and transmit the notes being played. In that area it's certainly not obsolete: synthesizers still transmit and receive MIDI messages and sequencer software still records them. It's the only sane way to edit and view note data because you can't edit audio easily to change a few notes. As a way of transmitting musical scores it's obsolete, but mostly because it was really hard to get MIDI soundtracks to sound as intended because there were so many different synthesizer implementations.
- deleted 3y ago
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