Welcome to The Midi Collection! Midi stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface; it's computer interpretted music. MIDI files are just coded instructions that tell the soundcard which instrument sound to produce at which note for how long. Most PC soundcards use a method known as FM Synthesis where different instrument sounds are created through algorithms. In my opinion, FM Synthesis MIDI sounds totally artificial. You can get much better performance and quality if your soundcard has Wavetable capabilities. Such cards generate the music through sampled instruments rather than complete synthesis; the result is a more natural, realistic sound and better mixing. Simply put, wavetable will "rock" your system. Don't waste your money on big speakers; a better PC soundcard will improve the sound quality more. In order to listen to these MIDI files your computer must have a soundcard and MIDI drivers. Newer computers come equipped for multimedia these days, so sound is a must-have feature for home systems. If you are using a Macintosh computer, you'll probably need to acquire a MIDI processing program. Instead of letting a soundcard process the data, such programs read and convert the MIDI to a format that Macs can play. I personally am not a Mac user, but I think Quicktime audio is somehow involved... The files found on this site are a small portion of my personal MIDI collection. Over the years, I've collected nearly 1,000 files. The absolute best way to find MIDI files are through web pages like mine. You'll be surprised how much you can get by doing a search on the key word "MIDI"... The next best place is the USENET newsgroup, alt.binaries.sounds.midi. Happy hunting to you MIDI enthusiasts out there... and if you're not currently a collector, I hope visiting my page will change your mind... You can also add MIDI on your personal webpages... Here's the simple code you can use that will instruct Netscape and Internet Explorer to play a song on an HTML document: <embed src="midi/super.mid" volume=100 WIDTH=45 HEIGHT=13 CONTROLS=smallconsole autostart=no loop=true> Warning: The music on the following pages my cause you to tap your feet or get off your chair and dance. Other effects may be the uncontrollable urge to sing along. These pages are for music lovers only.