Mark's General MIDI Page

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"One of These Nights" by Eagles) uploaded on November 09, 2007

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I do not take credit for the creation, sequencing, or arrangement of these files. I just enjoy collecting them. A few I may have tweaked a little to sound better on the (at the time) AWE64 or to fix a stuck note or sustain pedal. Credit belongs to the authors as listed in the copyright notes/properties of the files. Also, all of these files are assumed to be in the public domain.

This page was originally designed to work with the Crescendo plug-in in Netscape. Alas, Crescendo is toast and I haven't used Netscape in forever. Well.. now it's designed to work best with Internet Explorer and uses Windows Media Player for the plugin.

Some of my favorite MIDI files for download:

Note: I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro and these sound great on it. All of the files here use the General MIDI format and do not require any special Sound Fonts or anything. For those with a X-Fi / Audigy / Live / AWE64 / AWE32 / SB32, check out my Sound Blaster page for stuff more specific to it.

RESET.MID (play it in midi frame) - I created this MIDI file out of frustration when I would play one particular MIDI file and certain ones I played after it sounded wrong (wrong instruments, the absence of some instruments, and so on). Also, every now and then I would get hold of a MIDI file that had a stuck note at the end of it and the only way to stop it was to reboot the system or load up my copy of Cakewalk Apprentice (by Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.) and hit the Panic Button in it. What I wanted was a MIDI file version of Cakewalk Apprentice's Panic button. With some help from their Tech Support and my own investigation, this is what I've come up with.

= Play the file in the embedded player on the bottom-left corner of the page.

Bluegrass

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith: "Dueling Banjos" [2:23]
Ervin T. Rouse (composer): "Orange Blossom Special" [2:35]

Johnny Horton: "Battle of New Orleans" [2:35]
Traditional: "Red Haired Boy" [2:16] sequenced by R.G. Allen

Classical

Beethoven: "Fur Elise" [2:21]

Modest Moussorgsky: "Night on Bald Mountain" [11:12]; "Pictures at an Exhibition" [29:43]

Country

Conway Twitty: "Slow Hand" [3:58]
Garth Brooks: "Friends in Low Places" [3:44]; "The Thunder Rolls" [3:54]

The Charlie Daniels Band: "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" [3:47]

Dance

Bee Gees, The: "Night Fever" [3:39]
C&C Music Factory: "Gonna Make You Sweat" [4:07]
Chic: "Le Freak" [4:55]
Commodores: "Brick House" [4:56]

Lips Inc.: "Funky Town" [5:40]
Los del Rios: "Macarena" [4:10]
The Tramps: "Disco Inferno" [4:06]
Unlimited: "No Limits" [3:27]

Folk

Gordon Lightfoot: "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" [6:40]

Heavy Metal

Dokken: "Dream Warriors" [4:04]

Metallica: "and Justice for All" [9:59]; "Blackened" [6:43]; "Damage" [5:01]; "Enter Sandman" [5:32]; "Harvester of Sorrow" [6:21]; "Jump in the Fire" [4:43]; "Master of Puppets" [7:54]; "Nothing Else Matters" [6:22]; "On Through the Never" [4:04]; "One" [6:57]; "Sad But True" [5:20]; "Unforgiven" [6:09]; "Wherever I May Roam" [6:42]

Miscellaneous

Andre Dossinger: "Space" [2:29]
Joerock: "Joerock's Megamix" [5:37] See megamix.txt for more info.
Mark Headrick: "Reset MIDI Device" [0:02]

New Order: "Blue Monday" [7:37]
Unknown Mixes: "Mix97" [9:09]; "UltiMix" [7:36]
Warlock / Grace S.: "Guitarous" [4:07] Instrumental Guitar converted from a MOD file

New Age & Celtic

Bomi: "Drunken Sailor's Dance" [2:49] I remember singing this in vocal music class.
Enigma: "Mea Culpa" [3:52]; "Return to Innocence" [4:12]; "Sadeness" [4:28]
Enya: "Carribean Blue" [2:56]; "Cursum Perficio" [4:25]; "Orinico Flow" [4:20]; "Storms in Africa" [4:04]

Ronin Hardiman (from Lord of the Dance): "Gypsy" [2:13]; "Riverdance" [5:48]; "Siamsa" [4:38]; "Victory" [2:47]
Suzanne Ciani: "Mozart" [3:48]; "The Velocity of Love" [4:25]

Pop & Rock

Ace of Base: "All That She Wants" [3:26]; "Don't Turn Around" [3:46]; "Happy Nation" [3:32]; "The Sign" [3:12]; "Wheel of Fortune" [3:52]
Bangles: "Walk like an Egyptian" [3:15]
Billy Idol: "Flesh for Fantasy" [4:06]; "Mony Mony" [3:29]; "White Wedding" [3:22]
Bob Seger: "Old Time Rock and Roll" [6:17]
Britney Spears: "Baby One More Time" [3:24]
Chantays, The: "Pipeline" [3:42]
Chris Rea: "Road to Hell" [4:08]
Club Nouveau: "Lean On Me" [5:30]
Crash Test Dummies: "Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm" [3:44]
Danny & the Juniors: "At the Hop" [2:30]
Dire Straits: "Money for Nothing" [8:04]; "Sultans of Swing" [6:04]
Donna Summer: "She Works Hard For The Money" [4:05]
Doors, The: "Riders on the Storm" [7:34]
Eagles: "One of These Nights" [4:35] Has lyrics!
Elton John: "Candle in the Wind" [6:36]; "Pinball Wizard" [3:22]
Eric Clapton: "Cocaine" [3:57]; "Layla" [5:02]; "Tears in Heaven" [4:24]; "White Room" [5:36]
Europe: "Final Countdown" [5:26] this song Rocks!!!
Falco: "Rock Me Amadeus" [2:36]
Foreigner: "Waiting For A Girl Like You" [4:38]
Frankie goes to Hollywood: "Relax" [3:37]
Gap Band, The: "You Dropped the Bomb on Me" [4:14]
Genesis: "I Can't Dance" [4:03] but the banana can!; "Mama" [5:23]
George Michael (Wham): "Careless Whisper" [5:52]
Human League, The: "Don't You Want Me?" [4:03]
Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls of Fire" [1:56]
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller: "Love Potion No. 9" [2:08] It even has Lyrics
Joan Jett: "I Love Rock and Roll" [3:01]

Journey: "Oh Sherri" [3:50]
Kansas: "Dust in the Wind" [3:27]
London Beat: "I've Been Thinking About You" [3:18] (Karaoke)
Madonna: "Borderline" [3:57]; "Get Into the Groove" [5:26]; "La Isla Bonita" [3:55]; "Like a Virgin" [3:15]
Marvin Gaye: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" [4:24]; "Sexual Healing" [4:29] good song
Men At Work: "Land Down Under" [3:25]
Men Without Hats: "Safety Dance" [4:32]
Michael Jackson: "Beat It!" [4:14]; "Smooth Criminal" [3:29] Contains Lyrics!
No Doubt: "Don't Speak" [4:26]
Pet Shop Boys: "West End Girls" [4:29] Has Lyrics
Peter Schilling: "Major Tom" [3:43]
Queen: "Another One Bites the Dust" [2:57]
R.E.M.: "Losing My Religion" [4:37]
Rolling Stones: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" [3:37]; "Start Me Up" [3:36]
Shocking Blue: "Venus" [4:04] Bananarama performed cover of song in 1986
Steve Miller Band: "Abracadabra" [3:51]; "Fly Like an Eagle" [4:04]; "Joker" [4:34]
Sting: "Every Breath You Take" [3:40]
STYX: "Mr. Roboto" [4:36]
Surfaris: "Wipe Out!" [4:48] great drum track!
Survivor: "Eye of the Tiger" [4:05]
Talking Heads: "Burnin' Down the House!!!" [4:09]
Thompson Twins: "Hold Me Now" [4:30]
Toto: "Down in Africa" [4:13]
Ugly Kid Joe: "Cats in the Cradle" [4:01]
Van Halen: "Jump" [4:22]
Yes: "Owner of a Lonely Heart" [6:17]
ZZ Top: "Under Pressure" [3:39]

Rhythm & Blues

Bill Withers: "Ain't No Sunshine" [3:38]

Trance

DJ Sammy and Yanou: "Heaven" [4:04] Not too bad..
Jason Flaherty: "Trance Dominant" [4:05]

The Shamen: "Boss Drum" [3:47]
Unknown: "Trance" [5:46]

TV & Movie Themes

Bill Conti: "Rocky: "Gonna Fly Now"" [2:46] by Bill Conti
Ennio Morricone: "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" [3:15] by Ennio Morricone
Ian Lewis: "Bad Boys" [3:59] the theme to Cops!

John Williams: "Jaws Theme" [1:45]; "Lost In Space" [2:11] (New Mix) (John Williams); "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Raider's March" [5:09]; "Star Wars: "Duel of Fates"" [4:09] Sounds good on the X-Fi; "Star Wars: "Imperial March"" [1:46]; "Star Wars: 20th Century Fox logo and Main Theme" [2:23]
U-96: "Dasboot" [5:21]
Unknown: "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Theme" [3:40]; "Star Trek: First Contact Theme" [2:48]; "Star Trek: Generations Theme" [1:45]; "Air Force One" [1:56]; "Apollo 13" [2:35]; "Axel-F Theme" [2:46] 7/1/97 Better sounding version.; "Battlestar Gallactica" [3:16]; "Benny Hill Theme" [1:58] seq. by Don Carroll; "Blade Runner" [3:44]; "Budweiser Theme" [1:26] This Bud's for You!; "Ghostbusters Theme" [4:06]; "Gilligan's Island" [1:00]; "Gilligan's Island" [1:00] Variation of the above; "Holy Grail" [0:18]; "James Bond" [1:52]; "Mission Impossible" [3:14] Theme, variation 2; "Monty Python Theme" [2:03]; "Mortal Kombat Theme" [3:06]; "Superman Theme" [4:27]; "Terminator II Theme" [1:53]; "Thunderbirds Theme" [3:15]; "THX Intro Sound" [0:20]; "Titanic - "My heart will go on"" [5:00] (Celine Dion) seq. by Tim Akehurst, Dedicated to Lara; "X-Files Theme, Dance Version" [3:29]; "X-Files Theme, Full" [3:29]; "X-Files Theme, Intro" [0:45]

Links to other MIDI sites and resources:

Music of Cyberspace (www.keybdwizrd.com), contains original songs by Michael D. Walthius. His music is excellent and I highly recommend visiting this site. Per copyright restrictions, I cannot post any of his files here. 4/18/2007: Well, dang.. his website is gone. Hmmm... :(
Web Thumper's MIDI page. Many files broken down by style of music and artist. Extensive site.
Music King's Ultimate Midi Archive Great site, lot of quality MIDI files.
MIDI Studio Consortium
MIDI Farm, Just gobbs and gobbs of MIDI files. Some very good. Site has the files broken down alphabetically, type of music, and by the artist.
AISP MIDI Might, The files are broken down into styles of music.
alt.binaries.sounds.midi USENET Newsgroup. Great place for trading MIDI files. If you're looking for a particular MIDI file, this is the place to ask.
I had a link to the FAQ from alt.binaries.sounds.midi, a lot of useful information with many common questions about MIDIs answered, but it's not valid anymore. Looking for another site. If you know where it is now, me. For now, you can look at an old copy I have: absmfaq.txt.

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