The Place Of Modern MIDI Music?

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 11, 2005 @08:52PM from the cue-zelda-theme dept.

-1-Lone_Eagle writes "With the free availability of literally thousands of MIDI files on the Internet, and increasingly powerful home desktop systems and software, virtually anyone can take a MIDI file and using a program such as GarageBand or Reason create a near-studio-quality rendition of their favorite song. This opens up an interesting discussion, is a remixed MIDI file an original creation? Or is it simply a copied work with the rights belonging to the original author? Is it piracy? What do you think?"

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Re:Instrumental Music by ultranova · 2005-11-11 21:33 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Greetings, Mr. Noculture. There's a such thing as music without vocals.

But there are no songs without vocals, Mr. Incomprehension.

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