LATEST MUSIC ADD MUSIC MIDI MESSAGES ABOUT THIS SITEone more (posted by Jim Taylor, 26 Aug 2008, 10:32) |
| Munching Ice Depleats Igloos |
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Hehehe (posted by Azer Mantessa, 26 Aug 2008, 04:27) |
| "Mantessa's Individual Devilment Included" hehehe |
MIDI Acronyms (posted by Dan Rowe, 25 Aug 2008, 08:10) |
| I'm partial to "Monacled Iconoclastic Dirty Inebriates", myself. |
Music Is Difficult Isn'it? (posted by Keith, 24 Aug 2008, 06:16) |
| Mainly It's Dan's Inventions Mantessa's Individual Devilment Included Mankind Is Desbiens Incarnate Minimalist Italian Doom-metal Improvisation Musical Instrument Dentistry Interface Muzak In Dance Implosion Mistaken Identity Delivers Ideograms Mind In Dump Input May Interlopers Desire Inclusion? Mower Is Dangerously Inefficient Music Idealism - Daintily Instrumental Mental Input Digitally Instantiated Morons ... In Dime Investment Madness Intrigues Decimal Interface Monsterly Isolation Decides Inebriation Mischievous Idealism - Dorsally Impassioned Movement Is Decidedly Internettable May Individuals Dump Intellectualism Merrymaker's Impression Delicately Instantiated Minim Incomprehensibly Delivers Ice Moaning Is Dangerously Ineffective Mulitlingual Instrumentality Double-reed Invasion? Marimbas In Density Instrumentation Melodramatic Intercultural Digerati Illustrator Mozzarella Interviewer Deficiency Incoherence Motto-Interdependent Defenseless Interconnect Malnourished Individuals are Dentally Intolerent Mustn't Invent Dilemma Inducements Must It Die Inwards? May Innumerable Dads Intoxicate Marry Into Devious Instrumentation! Metal Is Double Insulation Man-trap Isn't Definitely Invented Malnourished Implosive Dither Intoxication Middle-class Irrationality Discontinuously Incorporated Mixolydian Inbetween Dorian Isn'it? Mannerisms Itchy, Definitely Itchy ... Mama In Dog Incarcerated! My Inglish Doesn't Inspire? Mumbo-Iumbo Dumbo Icecream Music Inhibited Dwindles Inside Monacled Iconoclastic Dirty Inebriates Mozart is dangerously invisible |
acronyms (posted by Jim Taylor, 24 Aug 2008, 03:51) |
| Great idea. Let's see how many acronyms we can come up with for MIDI. Music In Data Increments. |
Multifaceted Integrated Diversionary Instrumentations (posted by Dan Rowe, 9 Aug 2008, 22:42) |
| I knew this "Acronym Creator" would be good for something! http://www.jasonblogs.com/acreator/ |
Media Inventions Discovery Invasions (posted by Azer Mantessa, 7 Aug 2008, 12:38) |
| Keith, Not bad an idea. Hope the words attract more lady composers. We are so lack of them. Life is about balance! :-) |
Fantasy (posted by Keith, 4 Aug 2008, 06:42) |
| Dan: Fantasy .... Hey, good one! That solo took me by surprise ... Azer: Brilliant mushroom morphs! Patrick: Ok then ... how about Cadenza MIDI and Media Diary? Or should we just stick with Cadenza MIDI Diary but say that the MIDI acronym means something different in our case? (Media Inventions Discovery Invasion???) Jerzy: Very atmospheric pieces from you recently ... thanks! |
Change of name (posted by Patrick May, 4 Aug 2008, 03:28) |
| Yeah, I'd be sad to see the MIDI in the title go too, since that's also what caught my attention. I found this site while I was searching for MIDI files on Google. If the name is to be changed, perhaps it would be better to change it to something like Cadenza MIDI & MP3 diary rather than omitting MIDI entirely. |
MIDI (posted by Azer Mantessa, 1 Aug 2008, 17:40) |
| Keith, Thanks for the comprehensive explanation on MIDI. I did miss one very important fundamental - in the end, it is the hardware :-) Regarding the singing, you are very motivational. The friend of mine is right here feeling embarassed LOL Patrick, Now I understand better the major difference between MIDI and MP3. To keep the intended sound of the music especially to the receiver's end. Now I can explain to my friends better. Thanks :-) Jerzy, I like the idea of changing the name MIDI into another word which is more progressive. A bit sad though because about a year ago, the word 'MIDI' caught my eyes. Come to think of it, life is like that. Things do change and I am yet to learn to acept changes. Two weeks ago, my 18 year old daughter called and told us that she is having a boyfriend and I was like ... what???!!! This is the thing. Kids grow. Next thing you know, they get married and live on their own. Learning to accept changes is something I'm yet to do as changes wil bound to happen anyway. Am studying your cinematic sound which I think is interesting. That you keep 'Your Medicine Man' ... wow ... that's really something ... LOL Am looking forward to writing something like that. Thanks :-) |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 31 Jul 2008, 11:22) |
| Yes, I do exactly think what Keith has written. In some sorts of composition sound is very important, and you must hear it properly to understand the whole composition. I myself started to compose music using MIDI as well. I must admit that MIDI has a perfect and comfortable way for notation music. What I meant, starting this discussion was that more and more composition uploading here is in different formats. So, MIDI in the name of this site only, is a bit inadequate. And, to Azer. I still have on my disk your flash "Your Medicine Man" and watch it from time to time. I like that voice and simplicity of drawing, sense of humour, which as a whole, gives splendid impression. I think you should do more that kind of work. Jerzy |
MIDI vs MP3 (posted by Patrick May, 30 Jul 2008, 23:46) |
| Yeah, it's best to use mp3 to keep the intended sound of your music. But still, MIDI has a certain charm to it. Ever since I've been young, I've enjoyed listening to the same MIDI file with different synths; it gives it a new interesting sound to a familiar tune. |
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MIDI friends and enemies (posted by Keith, 30 Jul 2008, 22:02) |
| With friends like yours, Azer, who needs enemies?! I guess it must be hot in Malaysia ... I agree with what you say about MIDI, but I think this is exactly why it's not more popular, at least on the web. It's great for applications and encoding your instructions in small files, but at the end of the day, if I send you music as a MIDI file, I've no idea how it's going to sound when you listen to it. I can't guarantee the balance between the instruments or anything about the timbres or voicings ... you could be listening on a 10 year old computer with a crappy sound card, or you might have a bank of expensive synths, samplers and effects units. You might even print out my MIDI file as a score and give it to live musicians to play. When we started this site in 1997, it wasn't so realistic to send big WAV and MP3 files everywhere ... MIDI made the files tiny and immediate - you could hear something straight away. Now we've got fast connections and gigs of webspace, it doesn't matter so much. MIDI's still great for building tracks, collaborating and realising music, but if you want us to hear your sounds as close as possible to how you hear them, then MP3s etc do that job much better. Only a few of us have been brave enough here to start using real sounds in their pieces ... I haven't yet had the courage to upload the sound of myself singing! I'm sure you know that you don't have the world's greatest voice, and I can tell you that neither do I. Singing's a bit different to creating MIDI music. What you DO have is a real gift for flash animations and telling stories in sound and images, and your voice makes these original and unique creations sound more personal and less computer-generated. So I think you should just hand in the gun to the police, buy your friend a copy of 'Anger Management for Dummies' and then relax and continue making music :) |
Nice (posted by Azer Mantessa, 30 Jul 2008, 14:29) |
| Hi all, yay! no more glaring screen :-) thanks :-) I hope both words ... cadenza and diary stay. one thing that i don't get it is ... why most media software developers hesitate to integrate MIDI with their applications? To me, MIDI sounds better, smaller, cheaper and simpler. One thing for sure, MIDI is programable for other music or sound development like music scores etc as MIDI is more digital-wise. i did write to macromedia and other multi-media software developers but until today, they never bother to reply. another thing is, i received this comment from a friend regarding my singing: "Why don't you just shoot yourself with a gun you piece of shit!" okay, i know that my voice sucks most of the time BUT the main problem is ... i think my voice is better than bob dylan. i am a bit confuse scratch head ... biting nails i've got the feeling that people here have been very nice that when comes to my singing, nobody really comment anything ... well, not much. what i'm afraid of is, i may destroy this site reputation by my singing. any honest take on this one? anyone? please ... PS: i'm kinda person who is hard to judge my ownself. |
Media (posted by Keith, 28 Jul 2008, 06:25) |
| Hi Jerzy, thanks for your Media Diary suggestion. I think it's a good idea. What does everyone else think? The new background changes colour every few minutes throughout the day, by the way. When Jerzy uploaded his latest piece and left his comment, the background was blue. Now, for me, it's a pinky red (but I see, in the cool light of day, that the transparent logo doesn't work very well using this colour, which is another good reason for making a new one ...) Thanks very much, everyone, for your continued support of whatever this site is called ... last week was a new busiest ever week with 32930 pages served. |
New background (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 27 Jul 2008, 21:39) |
| I see we have a new background. It's quite good, (light blue). It is only my suggestion but, because there is not only MIDI format on this site so, I think, more suitable name for this site would be, let's say: Media Diary. What do you think about this, Keith? |
Azer Mantessa agogo cats (posted by Joe Devins, 23 Jul 2008, 12:43) |
| Thanx for the compliment Azer ........... now its my turn .... I love Agogo Cats ... music and animation .... very surreal! |
Site Design (posted by Azer Mantessa, 18 Jul 2008, 07:48) |
| I prefer the simplicity of the design which is speedwise. BUT what I like most is ... behind the simplicity, there are great pieces by Joe Devins :-) Thanks Patrick for the info on Firefox. At 44, I too am having a bit problem with the glaring whitish background. Azer |
Site design (posted by Patrick May, 16 Jul 2008, 14:31) |
| Hey, Joe. Sorry to disagree, but I like the logo. It's nice and simple. Actually I like the entire site design; very simple with no pointless flashy stuff, and it stays out of your way to let you get on with actually reading the content of the page. But I do agree with you on the white text and black background. It's actually quite easy to get Mozilla Firefox to display pages in a set of custom colours. Just go to Tools -> Preferences, and then click on the "Colours..." button. |
 Cadenza with white text and black background |
Sore on the eyes (posted by Joe Devins, 15 Jul 2008, 20:04) |
| Why not change the color of cadenza and give it a more pleasing background color ... I find the white a wee bit sore on the eyes and the logo is ... dare I say ... a bit boring. A black background would be more pleasing to the eyes. |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 8 Jul 2008, 22:20) |
| Joe, Aldo - thanks for nice compliment. |
Haszysz (posted by Aldo Carpanelli, 6 Jul 2008, 09:39) |
| What a GREAT track, Jerzy! Really impressive. Highly dramatic. As violent as needed. Hats off to you. |
Jerzy's hashish (posted by Joe Devins, 3 Jul 2008, 12:16) |
| I really liked your latest mp3, Jerzy - lot of nice textures going on in there ... nice opening bass line. |
Bandon Homoyummy (posted by Anon, 2 Jul 2008, 08:29) |
| Bandon, you still make a piano musics? You clazy white boy. Cheng-Coors |
Jake Wharton's submission in .als format (posted by Keith, 29 Jun 2008, 10:55) |
| Hi Jake, thanks for your submission. Unfortunately our software doesn't accept .als format. Can you convert to one of the formats we accept (see ADD MUSIC above for details) and upload your piece again? Thanks, and welcome! Keith |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 26 Jun 2008, 23:13) |
| Thanks Michael. Now I'm trying to use virtual synthesizers. |
Dolphinarium (posted by Michael Fonos, 26 Jun 2008, 21:45) |
| Jerzy - it's a great, moody, atmospheric track. I really like it. What did you use to compose it if I may ask? |
My Apology (posted by Azer Mantessa, 22 Jun 2008, 06:58) |
| My humble apology to everybody for posting videos containing nudity particularly the song ... If I Could Have. Please do list out my postings which are considered inappropriate. Special thanks to Jim Taylor. Sometimes I do get carried away and reminders help :-) Azer |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 21 Jun 2008, 23:17) |
| Good Morning Sunshine - I like it, Ricardo |
Jim Taylor (posted by Patrick May, 21 Jun 2008, 02:39) |
| Yeah, sorry about that. Usually the people I show these things to are OK with it, since there's no actual nudity, and the guy's facial expressions are so happy so you can tell that nothing bad is going on. But I do understand what you mean. I'll tone down the pictures that I post to this site from now on. By the way, that's an impressive drawing that your brother has made. I like the details on the control panel, and the colouring of the craters on the moon. |
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Picture (posted by Jim Taylor, 20 Jun 2008, 22:31) |
| Here is a picture my brother made with the PAINT program. I am going to start a series of MIDI files to his pictures. Say guys - I don't mean to be a prude, but I send my band kids to this site to practice along with pieces I compose for band and post here. Could we cool it with the pics and movies of guys in their underwear? |
 Picture by Kelbert Taylor |
Message from Patrick May (posted 16 Jun 2008, 02:38) |
| Heh heh heh. Thank you very much, Azer. :-) |
Cool Flash by Patrick May (posted by Azer Mantessa, 15 Jun 2008, 17:15) |
| Cool flash by Patrick May ... I LIKE :-) Keep it up :-) |
Ultraviolet 6 (posted by Michael Fonos, 12 Jun 2008, 20:58) |
| Simply WOW! It's fantastic. This theme is simple but very catchy. But THIS arrangement...hmm... I love it! |
Hillary Concedes! (posted by Dan Rowe, 11 Jun 2008, 14:41) |
| Hard to believe visits to CMD have more than doubled in three months! Congratulations to all the contributors, especially Keith, who has worked hard on the new features here. Over the years I've seen a number of MIDI composers come and go (and there's been periods where only a few of us seemed to be keeping the Diary alive), but a lot of the most interesting music has come out in the last year. |
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Ultraviolet 6 (posted by Joe Devins, 11 Jun 2008, 09:31) |
| Interesting chords you used in a part of Ultraviolated which inspired me to do another mix of the track ... in music the possibilities are endless ... and you're absolutely correct, collaborations are good and can result in education and inspire invention. |
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ultraviolet 5 (posted by joe devins, 8 Jun 2008, 12:48) |
| for the purposes of your experimentation and usage of ultraviolet 5....you are welcome to do an arrangement of it with my permission.... interested to hear what you come up with! |
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some idea - to Joe Devins (posted by Michael Fonos, 7 Jun 2008, 14:26) |
| Joe - I really like your track "Ultraviolet 5" - great thing! While listening to it I came up with some idea. What would you say if I try and add something to it? I don't think it's a common thing but it would be great and interesting to post here some music that is the mutual effort of two composers (with mutual credits:). Of course I won't do anything with the music without your permission so I'm waiting for your decision. Thanks anyway for sharing this track:) |
Server statistics (posted by Keith, 5 Jun 2008, 06:08) |
| Just thought you'd like to see what's been happening on the MIDI Diary's server recently! Thanks to everyone for their continued support, and a big welcome to all the new contributors who have uploaded their first pieces here over the past few months. |
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Thanks Dan! (posted by Michael Fonos, 1 Jun 2008, 17:58) |
| Thank's a lot Dan. I listen to Coldplay, Sigur Ros, Alanis Morissette or Peter Gabriel but mostly I'm a big fan of movies and film scores. My favourite film composer is Hans Zimmer because of his usage of melodies (plus I like epic dramatic music which can be heard in my own work) but also Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, John Powell, Harry Gregson Williams or Danny Elfman. I'm not a prefessional musician and I treat composing as my hobby (quite a big one:). I'm inspired by film composers and their work but I like to think that the final product is still a result of my own imagination:) When writing music I always try to visualise the concept of the particular project I work on, explore the ideas and arrange it in a way that doesn't put me off. Mostly it's so so - from average to decent - but from time to time I am able to amaze myself and write something I couldn't imagine I would be able to. These are the best moments!:) |
Michael Fonos (posted by Dan Rowe, 30 May 2008, 22:19) |
| I am really enjoying your music. The quality of your work is consistently high. I'd be interested to know who your influences are. |
Robohop (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 17 May 2008, 21:10) |
| You may be right, Joe. Hip hop is not my favourite, so I wanted to make it a bit funny. |
Robohop (posted by Joe Devins, 17 May 2008, 17:14) |
| Great theme Jerzy ... that's one of your strengths!... but I think the robot spoils it ... I'd love to hear a hip hop version of this without the robot ... sorry robot! |
Dr. Filth: still filthy after all these years (posted by Dan Rowe, 12 May 2008, 08:19) |
| Thanks, Patrick. Using a search engine just now, I see there's a rock band called "Dr. Filth" that's come up in the last few years, long after I did that tune. But they must have gotten the name from the same place I did: a minor character in "Desolation Row", by Bob Dylan. "Doctor Filth he keeps his world inside of his leather cup. But all his sexless patients they're plannin' to blow it up. Now his nurse, some local loser, she's in charge of the cyanide hole. She's also in charge of the cards that read, 'Have mercy on his soul.'" |
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Doctor Filth (posted by Patrick May, 11 May 2008, 13:14) |
| I was looking through Daniel Rowe's music today. I really like "Doctor Filth" by Daniel Rowe. It has an interesting selection of instruments, and an interesting melody... and also an interesting name. |
re night heat blues (posted by joe devins, 21 Apr 2008, 14:46) |
| thanx for your comment jerzy. like to hear something from you soon, like your work. |
night heat blues (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 12 Apr 2008, 10:50) |
| Hi Joe. For me it' s blues/jazz. I like this piece. Good work. |
Monstruosity 2 -- for Daniel's eyes only? (posted by Aldo Carpanelli, 26 Mar 2008, 14:05) |
| I'm mainly playing live music these days, but I would be happy to try some tweaking (though modifying a masterpiece is usually a hard task!). A MIDI version of your song would make things easier and quicker. |
To Aldo Carpanelli (posted by Dan Rowe, 24 Mar 2008, 11:57) |
| Thanks for the compliment regarding "Monstrum". I can't think of anything to add to that tune right now, but if you like, you can play around with it and add something. I notice you haven't uploaded anything since mid-October...hope you are still making music! Dan |
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Excellent site. (posted by Patrick May, 23 Mar 2008, 23:51) |
| Hello everyone. I'm a young guy who likes to make music with the computer, though I've also taken up the guitar as well. Most of the music I make is basically just MIDI files. I came across here through google, and I'm pretty interested in this site. In this modern day, you don't find many new sites with MIDI files on them. Most of the sites I find haven't been updated since 1998 or so... But this site is still updated to this day, and has many original MIDI files posted each month, it seems. So from now on, I'll be posting some of my MIDI files here. Thanks for a great site. |
 A screenshot of my MIDI folder, containing the MIDI files that I made since 2004. |
Guitar pieces (posted by Ricardo Frantz, 23 Mar 2008, 07:07) |
| Hi Jerzy!! thanks for the compliment!! have a nice Sunday! |
Monstruosity! (posted by Aldo Carpanelli, 16 Mar 2008, 16:32) |
| Daniel (Rowe), my compliments for your horrific "Monstrum"! I find both the music and the photo really impressive. Why don't you try to expand such a valuable idea? |
Duettinos (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 13 Mar 2008, 23:45) |
| Hi Ricardo. As a former classical guitarist I do like your 2 pieces (duettinos for flute & guitar). Excelent work. Jerzy |
Thanks there Jerzy :-) (posted by Azer Mantessa, 6 Mar 2008, 06:59) |
| Thanks there Jerzy :-) |
Your Medicine Man (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 2 Mar 2008, 00:53) |
| Azer, It's an interesting idea - your voice (with helium). The flash movie - simple but corresponding to the music. Good work, I like it. |
Flash MX (posted by Azer Mantessa, 27 Feb 2008, 09:40) |
| Hi Keith, I use Macromedia Flash MX to generate Flash files. |
Medicine Man (posted by Keith, 27 Feb 2008, 07:30) |
| Hi Azer, Really enjoyed 'Medicine Man' ... how are you making your Flash files? I'm interested in putting some instructions online to help people wanting to make music files in various different formats. Keith |
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The Beast :-) (posted by Azer Mantessa, 22 Feb 2008, 12:48) |
| There is no safe seat at the feast Take your best stab at the beast The night is turning thin Azer is turning SIN :-) |
Six six six (posted by Keith, 22 Feb 2008, 11:57) |
| Arrrrggghhh! 666 - six six six - the number of the beast!!! (Sorry Azer - nothing to do with your flash test!) |
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Gong Xi Fa Chai (posted by Azer Mantessa, 8 Feb 2008, 06:43) |
| Happy Chinese New Year to chinese listeners and chinese all over the world. |
MIDI Diary visitors (posted by Keith, 4 Feb 2008, 00:20) |
| Hi folks ... here's some good news about the MIDI Diary ... it's getting busier. The graph shows the details (from the server logs) - that there's been consistent growth for the last four months. The left column of numbers is server requests and the right column is page views. This is thanks to everyone who has posted their music here. Keith |
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Scotsman in Calcutta (posted by Dan Rowe, 28 Jan 2008, 11:59) |
| Jerzy's latest track is brilliant. He should be doing movie soundtracks. (Or maybe, he has?) The other new tunes are good, too. |
Message from Ricardo Frantz (posted 28 Jan 2008, 05:14) |
| Hi Jerzy! thanks for listening to my piece! cheers! Ricardo |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 6 Jan 2008, 23:40) |
| Wow, new face of Azer. I like that. |
Message from Jerzy Kulik (posted 29 Dec 2007, 12:50) |
| Ricardo, I like your latest piece "Just Playing". Jerzy |
voices (posted by Keith, 26 Dec 2007, 01:04) |
| Jim: Thanks for your comments. Yes - I did run the voices backwards and also faster. Everyone: Compliments of the season! Thanks for supporting the Cadenza MIDI Diary for another year, and good luck with all your projects in 2008. |
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Keith's Song (posted by Jim Taylor, 14 Dec 2007, 11:06) |
| Keith: I really liked your "Goodbye and see you soon". It was unique in nature and innovative in style. I detected the very low spoken voice towards the end but I am not sure if you ran the voices backwards or at higher octaves at any point. I would think you could take one spoken word and convert it to any pitch and then make a composition using just that word for all notes. Keep up the good work. |
 Car available on ebay for four mil. |
animated gif (posted by Jim Taylor, 10 Dec 2007, 02:25) |
| Just as we write variations to music, Jerzy, I took your picture of Santa and used an animated gif program named Easy GIF Animator to have a little "Santa fun". |
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Azer's Symphony (posted by Jerzy Kulik, 6 Dec 2007, 12:43) |
| Azer, thanks for your symphony. Mary Christmas for everyone. |
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Christmas (posted by Jim Taylor, 4 Dec 2007, 02:18) |
| Merry Christmas, everyone!! |
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Brandon's HYMN (posted by Jim Taylor, 22 Nov 2007, 12:22) |
| Brandon, I liked your chorale. The first inversion chords and the major three chords to the minor six chords were nice. The last instrumental variation with the bagpipes was great. |
Gershwin (posted by Jim Taylor, 22 Nov 2007, 12:13) |
| I watched RHAPSODY IN BLUE yesterday, an old black and white movie about the life and music of George Gershwin. Every musician should see this movie, especially if you write music. By the way: have a great and happy holiday season/Thanksgiving/Christmas. |
 Happy Thanksgiving |
Great feature! (posted by Aldo Carpanelli, 19 Nov 2007, 20:31) |
| Great feature, Keith! In my opinion the MIDI Diary needed a place where one could comment on the others' music. Now it's available! Many, many thanks. Aldo |
My Angelina Jolie (posted by Dan Rowe, 18 Nov 2007, 13:43) |
| I like Azer's new piece "My Angelina Jolie", particularly the series of descending chords in the middle. Very unusual and inspired; I wish I'd thought of that! Fellow Angie fan, Dan Rowe |
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Viplove - duplicate piece (posted by Keith, 16 Nov 2007, 14:54) |
| This is a message for Viplove. We got your piece, but it's the same music as you sent in October (Internationale), which everyone here has already listened to, so have replaced your older submission with this one (and new comments). Hope that's ok. Keith |
Terragen (posted by Jim Taylor, 26 Oct 2007, 09:58) |
| www.planetside.co.uk Here is the link for downloading TERRAGEN. This free download allows you to create landscape picures like the ones I created for MUSIC FOR TERRAGEN posted 10/26/07. The installation of the program may require you to update your windows installer. You can create water, leaves, clouds, sun and haze color, mountains or plains, angle of sunlight, sand or grass, and many other aspects of your landscape picture. I can only imagine what the full version is like. Have fun, live long, and create. |
 This picture took about four minutes to create and generate. |
The big five oh oh (posted by Keith, 10 Aug 2007, 13:15) |
| Hi everyone ... looks like we're about to pass the big 500 mark ... five hundred music files uploaded since we switched to our new system in November, so a big thank you to everyone who's contributed to this. This means that we've probably easily doubled the number of pieces posted per month compared to last year, which is great. We're hoping to make some more improvements soon. UPDATE: 500 mark now reached ... thank you Jim (for Kylie's Song) |
Great MIDI Player (posted by Jim Taylor, 30 Jul 2007, 03:22) |
| The following is the address of the best free MIDI player (well, at least for windows) that I have found. It is the VanBasco's Karaoke player and it works great for MIDI. http://www.tucows.com/preview/193502?id=193502 (tucows) http://www.softsea.com/review/VanBasco's-Karaoke-Player.html (soft sea) Either link should get you the program |
 Me at the Grand Canyon this summer. |
where is keyz (posted by wonderingman, 29 Jul 2007, 19:48) |
| where is keyz? does anyone know what happen to the other side BBS |
other (posted by Jim Taylor, 30 Jun 2007, 12:00) |
| Here are a few Keith. Traditional. Quirky. Far-out. Bizarre. Conservative. Gallop. Deep-space. Out of control. Semi-classical. Over the top. Restful. Serene. bad jittery better jolly quaint tender beautiful kind quiet testy big long quick tricky lazy quickest tough bright magnificent rainyrare ugly clumsy many ratty vast crazy mighty watery dizzy mushy roasted wasteful dull robust wide-eyed fat new round wonderful frail nice sad yellow friendly nosy scary yummy funny nutty scrawny zany great nutritious short odd silly gigantic orange stingy gorgeous ordinary strange grumpy pretty striped handsome precious spotty happy prickly horrible tall itchy tame. Actually, I did the ones with a period after them, and then I just looked up a list of adjectives. |
Music in style 'other'? (posted by Keith, 30 Jun 2007, 02:14) |
| Just a quick question for everyone who has submitted a piece with style 'other' ... does this mean that none of the other listed styles match your piece? If so, can you suggest another style name that describes these pieces? |
looking for Jim (posted by Jim Taylor, 15 Jun 2007, 17:01) |
| Ich haba never been to Deutchland or das Holland. IB60. Sorry Marsha: I am not whom ye seek. There are lots of Jim/James Taylors floating around, and apparently, quite a few of them are musicians. Must go with the name. Good Luck. |
 A picture of me and one of my students. |
Looking for a Jim Taylor (posted by Masha B, 13 Jun 2007, 18:33) |
| Hello, my name is Masha, i am looking for an old friend called Jim/James Taylor. I have lost contact several years ago. I met him in Munich (Germany) in 1994, he is a musician and about 45 years old. He used to live in Holland. If you know him, please let me know. Thank you. |
A hundred in a day : 5 June 2007 (posted by Keith, 8 Jun 2007, 12:37) |
| Jim Taylor did another of his marathon music composing days, similiar to last summer, on Tuesday 5 June 2007 (4am until 11:50pm local time). You'll see each of his pieces on Jim's page - just click on the name Jim Taylor from one of his pieces on the LATEST MUSIC page. Jim sent No 86 of his pieces twice, so we have an 86 A, which means 101 MIDIs in total. Not only that, but besides Jim's 101 songs, we had 12 other submissions during the day, which means 113 new MIDIs in one day! |
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Parodies (posted by Keith, 28 May 2007, 05:31) |
| We've just added 'Parody' to the list of available music styles, at Jim Taylor's request. If anyone wants this (or any other 2nd style) added to any of the pieces they've already uploaded, please get in touch. |
Quicktime MIDI to WAV, MIDI to MP3 (posted by Keith, 28 May 2007, 05:16) |
| Hi Ryan, Apple Quicktime Pro will definitely do this job - you can hear the results if you listen to one of my files in the LATEST MUSIC list shown as MP3 format (but not 'effects'). I've only done this on Mac OS/X though - if you want to do this on a PC, please check with the Apple website before you buy. I realise this isn't free, but it doesn't cost much, and I think the results are very good. On Mac OS/X you can change patch sets too, if you want a different sound. Again - not sure if this works in the PC version. Anyone else got any other ideas? Keith |
Message from Ryan Nescio (posted 28 May 2007, 01:27) |
| Does anyone know of a free program (no free trials) that will convert MIDIs into MP3s, WAVs, etc without forcing you to sit there and record it manually? |
Real names (posted by Keith, 17 May 2007, 11:41) |
| Some people calling themselves 'Tau', 'jjqpphflow', 'wqwqspp', 'Bush', 'fgdfdeqiy', 'Omaculer', 'Mpmusicca', 'asd', 'Morrakaroj' and 'Cartolinent' tried to upload some music here recently, but the uploads didn't succeed. I think this is form spam failing to get through, but if any of these are from genuine composers/improvisers, please try again, but note that we only accept uploads from people who use their own real names! |
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Beetlepool (posted by Rhino, 3 May 2007, 09:28) |
| Hm ... got my liver from the beetlepool! :) |
ooppss (posted by Azer Mantessa, 2 May 2007, 15:52) |
| hi rhino, i was too happy and get carried away ... ooppss sowwie ... btw the beatles are from liverpool :-) |
'scourse (posted by Rhino, 2 May 2007, 15:37) |
| Scouse me, but ain't this a music websiyt not a futborl won nil! |
We Are In The FINAL! (posted by Azer Mantessa, 1 May 2007, 21:43) |
| LONG LIVE LIVERPOOL! |
 Athens, Brings It On !!! |
Firefox (posted by Keith, 18 Apr 2007, 16:07) |
| Just singing the praises of the Firefox web browser a bit. One of our regular composer contributors asked me today about having spell check and auto-complete facilities in the Cadenza MIDI Diary. Well ... install the latest version of Firefox (Mac or PC) and you'll have both these features straight away. I think they're switched on by default. Another advantage over Internet Exploder (or at least the versions of it that I've played with recently in their default configurations without special plugins) is that it streams MP3 files, which means that you can start listening to these items before they've finished downloading - great if you don't want to wait around. |
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messages (posted by Jim Taylor, 15 Apr 2007, 03:48) |
| Good to see the messages are back up. |
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Message from hobbysport (posted 6 Apr 2007, 08:15) |
| Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several MIDI paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, breaking in, evading security, getting out and escaping with the goods, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: -- (brace yourself) -- -- (this is going to hurt) -- "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh." |
Neil Sedaka's Miracle Song (posted by Keith, 24 Mar 2007, 13:06) |
| Hi Paul, Thanks for getting back to us. When you uploaded this music you wrote: This song is the one that was made famous by Neil Sedaka i sequenced this one myself !!!!enjoy!!!! We appreciate that you sequenced it yourself, but isn't there copyright on the actual song? The Cadenza MIDI Diary is a forum for original pieces written by the person uploading them, not arrangements of copyright songs. Warner/Chappel, for example, hold the copyright on the tune Happy Birthday To You so arrangements of that, too, are technically illegal, although it would be easy to make the mistake that it's a public domain tune that anyone can arrange. Sorry to be difficult, but we need to be very careful that we don't use copyright works. As mentioned below, you'd be very welcome to upload your own original music here. All best wishes Keith |
re-miracle song midi (posted by Paul Erroch, 23 Mar 2007, 21:20) |
| Hi Keith, Paul here yes the midi of the Miracle song i posted was a version that i made myself honestly, as i was trying to get that track but with no joy. So decided to build it up through my Cakewalk program. It took me a while to do it but i got there in the end so there really is no copyright infringement there. Once again thankyou for your response Keith hope to hear from you soon God bless, Paul. |
Azer and Ryan (posted by Keith, 20 Mar 2007, 09:10) |
| Hi Dan, thanks for the posting. Yes - I like Azer's music too. I also like the one just submitted by another new face - Ryan Nescio, and the new ones by you and Ricardo. Continued thanks-muchos to everyone sending in new pieces! |
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Message from Dan (posted 12 Mar 2007, 13:18) |
| Azer Mantessa is quite the original talent. "Terbang Lagi" is my favorite. Keep up the great work! |
Paul Erroch please get in touch (posted by Keith, 10 Mar 2007, 04:38) |
| I'm trying to get in touch with Paul Erroch, who posted a MIDI here on 8 March 2007. Paul: the email address you gave is bad - I couldn't write back. I think the MIDI you posted is copyrighted by one of the big organisations, so we can't use it, but please feel free to post music that's really yours. Similarly, someone called 'kweni' posted something too, which sounds as if it's copyright, so the same comments apply. |
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Welcome back to MIDI Messages (posted by Keith, 4 Mar 2007, 23:04) |
| Just got this forum going again, after a gap of a few months! Messages can now have photos attached to them. Thanks for all the new music, folks. |
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Message from anonymous (posted 11 Nov 2006, 05:46) |
| A sore-loser Republican, no doubt... |
Message from anonymous (posted 1 Nov 2006, 16:38) |
| John Kerry IS a botched joke! |
Message from Keith (posted 27 Oct 2006, 17:49) |
| You'll have to wait another 24 hours or so, Freddy - we're running Dan's three Halloween pieces on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday! |
Message from Freddy Fenderbender (posted 27 Oct 2006, 00:19) |
| Where's the spooky music?? |
Message from anonymous (posted 24 Oct 2006, 02:47) |
| Cyndi Lou Who, that's who! |
Message from anonymous (posted 17 Oct 2006, 17:51) |
| New Who! Who Knew? Woo Hoo! |
Message from Rick Frazier (posted 16 Oct 2006, 19:06) |
| Thanks Jim for the compliment. I don't know that alot of people like my musical style (Prog Rock) and I know that is a classical oriented site, but I get a nice reception here most every song I submit. I appreciate it. Thanks again. |
Message from Jim Taylor (posted 16 Oct 2006, 03:20) |
| Great theme and variations Rick. That's the best percussion backup of a MIDI file I have heard in a long time. Keep up the good work and welcome to Cadenza. |
Message from Keith (posted 15 Oct 2006, 16:47) |
| Welcome back to Rick Frazier, whose latest MIDI appears here in a few hours' time ... |
Message from Jim Taylor (posted 8 Oct 2006, 19:26) |
| A teacher the other day told me I must be crazy because I seemed to be enjoying teaching. I took it as a compliment! We played X----- last night there. The director, who had years of experience but was new at X---- this year said the discipline was so bad that all they could do was play straight through their music in rehearsal. He couldn't stop to try and correct anything because the kids would go crazy. These 1A and 2A football games are a hoot. At X----, the coaches rode a little tractor onto the field and filled in low places with shovel's full of dirt just before kickoff. Friday night at X-----, my band sat on wood bleachers. The steps to them were rotten and they rocked from front to back around three inches, almost like a spook house at the fair. The lady announcing X's half time said one of the girls names was "band-aide." I almost fell out of the bleachers I was laughing so hard. Apparently, she was a last minute choice to announce, and as the twirlers and what they did with the band were announced, she got ahead of herself. Ya just gotta look for the humor in life 'cause you never know what you will find next! |
Message from Keith (posted 2 Oct 2006, 17:46) |
| And where are the sticklebacks? I reckon they've been eaten by the Unidentified Fishing Objects! |
Message from Jim Taylor (posted 30 Sep 2006, 20:02) |
| In American football, you have quarterbacks and halfbacks. Where are the eighth and sixteenthbacks, not to mention the wholebacks? |