First of all:
Wow!
Beautiful!
I'm looking forward to the next one as well (again a more cheerful tune which I suppose everyone will recognize immediately)
I wonder if they have something like what you're doing in the job department, becuase you'd be perfect for such a job.
Jobs in the MIDI field do exist, and I would love to get my hands on one of them. As a matter of fact, that is *partly* why I'm building these midis; to set up a sort of "portfolio" of my midi abilities in case I ever get lucky enough to apply for such an opportunity.
Jobs in this field include a wide variety, such as:
Professional MIDI file creation (if you search for professional midis of popular songs, you will find a number of them out there. MIDIs that users must pay for to access, as they are sequenced (produced) by professionals who have probably written the midi from the original artist's data directly (though I don't know for sure on that, I wouldn't be surprised if professional midi file sequencers have access to the original music to save having to do it all be ear, which is difficult and time-consuming).
Music composition for TV, video games, and films. Much of the music found in the media, especially TV and games, is written using MIDI instructions with bigger, more expensive synthesizers (as I explained to Malte a bit over MSN, MIDI is nothing but a language that a sound synthesizer understands. MIDI itself contains no sound data, just instructions (
for example: Note C5 on, Note A4 on, note C5 off, change to instrument 005, note E5 on, change to instrument 023, change volume to 46, change volume to 48, change velocity to 72, change panning to 105, note A4 off, note E5 off, etc, etc, etc ok I'm done 
: ).
These instructions can be sent to any sound generator (Synthesizer, sound library, whatever you want to call em
: ) for use in a number of applications.
MIDI is a Very powerful tool in the modern world of digital audio, far beyond that which we see here, in our cutesy music and cheap sound cards.
Throw a midi instruction file to a $3500 sound library
to a $3500 sound library, and it sounds just like a live orchestra! Incredible stuff, really. Check out the demos on the link above. They're nothing but midis thrown at a Hollywood-quality sound library. I'd love to get more into it...but I don't have $3500 to spend on the software (not to mention, the powerhouse of a computer required to operate it! Mine could probably run it decent, but I don't know for sure...):cry2
I'll just stick with my $200 instruments that I"m using in the If We Hold On Together MP3
I'll just stick with my $200 instruments that I"m using in the If We Hold On Together MP3 
Check out the
Action Adventure demo. Picture That as a MIDI file. THAT is what MIDI can be. Crazy stuff
And if you think that's crazy, Check This Out!
Check This Out! And you thought voices would never get into MIDI music!
None of this is performed live. It's all electronic, using nothing but MIDI and sound libraries. Trust me, you've never heard MIDI choirs until you hear this!
And people say MIDI sucks
:
(hmm, now I feel like going and writing a MIDI article on The Fridge
)
Another option: ringtones for cell phones!
musical ringtones are nothing more than MIDI files. This would be a fairly straight-forward job B)
don't find any problems with it really, you did incredably well.
"High praise, coming from you."
-Pterano
Weren't you the one who said I messed up on the early release of this one? LOL
(but yeah - I did mess up on the early releases
)
Keep up the good work. I hope for your next one to come soon.
Thanks a lot!
More coming as soon as I can! My computer is giving me some trouble right now though. Looks like the hard drive that I load Windows off of, is basically dead
I may be slightly delayed, due to technical and other reasons, but I shall indeed do my best. My computer is being...less than reliable, but at least it's being cooperative enough to let me write this response!
