

When you are ready, go to your Download Queue, and follow the download instructions. You should experiment first to see which type is compatible with your hardware. Some Disklavier, for example, can only play one or the other type. The 0 or 1 suffix on the download button indicates the type of the MIDI file: Type 0 or Type 1. To download a MIDI, click its download button, to add it to Download Queue. You may start your MIDI discovery by clicking "By Composer", "By Contributor", or typing what you're looking for, into our search box above. MIDI files can also be converted to sheet music, with the appropriate software. It was originally developed in the 1980s as a standard communications protocol for connecting hardware synthesizers together with sequencers, keyboards, and other devices which controlled them. Digital pianos, physical pianos and other real instruments, synthesizers, computerized virtual instruments, and even stage sets of an opera can all be controlled by MIDI. It is primarily used to communicate which, when, for how long, and how loud to play musical notes, and with which "instrument." But it can be used to communicate a great range of other performance data. I am really surprised that this seems to be so difficult.In a nutshell, MIDI is a digital protocol, that is, a language which communicates performance instructions for any musical instrument or device (such as your sound card) which understands the language. Is there some way to make this work across browsers (minimum: current Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, IE6+, Android, iOS) without requiring any plugins? Probably some clever mix of all the tags listed above? use a Java applet: Not available everywhere, and seems like overkill.-tag: Requires HTML 5 also not sure if it supports MIDI across browsers.Both suggest QuickTime, but neither installs it correctly. Classical MIDI Files : This page lists all our MIDI Classical Music in Composer order (alphabetically by surname). -tag: Chrome and Firefox require a plugin.Note that the Files were prepared for use with an English translation of the libretto, and thus that to fit the different words some notes have been split into two or more smaller notes which, though separate, may, in the translation's associated score, look tied or slurred.

Firefox requires a plugin, which it can't even install automatically. Here is a 'clickable' Table of the available Midi Files for this Work. -tag: IE only must be careful not to use with other tag that IE might interpret also.I've found several approaches, each with their own problems: And I will give the option to turn it on or off.)

It's for a kids-page and they love this stuff. (Now, please don't answer with "don't do it! it's annoying as hell!". Is there a cross-browser way to play background MIDI files in a website without the need for a plugin? I never thought, I'd have to ask THIS question:
