Country Midi Files?

Tony Harris · Post by **Tony Harris** » 23 Sep 2002 7:54 am

Any suggestions where to find the best country midi files? I really only need to 'steal' the drumtracks (maybe piano) to make my own demos, as I'll be adding real guitars, steel, bass etc...I have an old Roland hardware sequencer, and find the easiest way is to start with a complete song and edit around whole chunks - verse, chorus etc.

Don Benoit · Post by **Don Benoit** » 23 Sep 2002 12:20 pm

MIDI site come and go. The best way to find a file is to go to Google then type the song that you want with the word MIDI after it and search.

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Bob Lawrence · Post by **Bob Lawrence** » 23 Sep 2002 3:52 pm

Tony,

You can get a few here:
http://www.dickanderson.net/pages/country.htm

Anyone looking for Steel Guitar Rag can find it under Standard.

I have a small collection of Midi Files, so if there is a song that you can't find I may have it. Let me know and I can send it as a e-mail attachment to you.

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Jimmy Dale · Post by **Jimmy Dale** » 23 Sep 2002 7:07 pm

Tony, try this one I think you'll like it. I get all mine here. http://midistudio.com If it doesn't come up for you, just type in your browser: (Don Carroll midi ) That's the way I found it. Jim Miller I'D RATHER BE STEELIN'

Joel Glassman · Post by **Joel Glassman** » 26 Sep 2002 11:10 am

http://country.mididb.com/country/

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 27 Sep 2002 8:09 pm

http://mp3.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fcaptain-dave.com%2Fmusic%2Fcountry.html

over 600 Country midi files on this site.

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Bill Moore · Post by **Bill Moore** » 28 Sep 2002 5:44 am

I have a question, I've never used midi files, don't know how to use them. But I listened to a couple and they seem like good backup tracks for practice, so, can I put them on a cd and play them on a regular player? Do they need to be changed to another type of file, if so, what is the best way to do it? Thanks in advance.[This message was edited by Bill Moore on 28 September 2002 at 06:46 AM.]

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 29 Sep 2002 6:49 am

MIDI files don't actually contain sound. Istead, they contain instructions on how to produce sound, like "Use the piano instrument to play a middle C quarter note". Think of them as sheet music for computers.

The MIDI player in your computer works with an internal synthesizer (often a cheap Yamaha chip) to "render" the MIDI file to audio. You can record the output of your computer to tape, but that's a pretty lo-fi way to go.

I use a program from Roland that comes with BIAB. It's called Virtual Sound Canvas (version 3.2). VSC is a sofware-based synthesizer that includes the ability to render MIDI into a high quality WAV file. WAV files are audio files - they contain the same data that you need for an audio CD.

Once you have rendered your MIDI files into WAV format, you can burn those to an audio CD-R, which you can then play on any CD player.

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