MIDI...

MIDI uses various commands to make music happen. Note On makes a note play and Note Off makes it stop. Key pressure works like a piano. Sometimes it's called velocity. And the higher the number, the harder the pressure and the louder the note. Controller Change tells the computer to use the foot petals for sustain or quiet or such, or also modulation wheels (to transpose the music) or volume sliders. Finally is a Program Change. This is when a channel changes from one instrument to another. Say channel 11 was a clarinet for the first 54 measures and later on I decide that it should be a trumpet, that would be a program change.

General MIDI Facts

• 128 standard voices, in 16 families of 8 instruments
• Channel 10 strictly used for percussion. 46 percussive sounds at specific note numbers. In plain English, each sound (snare drum, crash cymbal, bongos, etc) have a specific piano key, and it's the same on all keyboards and sound boards
• Mode 3 -- Standard. This means that each channel plays any and all notes sent to it, whether it's one or a million, until the synthesizer can play no more.
• Minimum 24 voice polyphony and 24 multi-timbral voices. In other words 24 notes to be played at once.

Wow, sounds confusing, don't it? Yeah, it does. Well, it really isn't because you don't have to deal with it exactly like that. All these MIDI were composed and/or arranged using Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0. What you do with this is paste ordinary-looking whole or eighth or whatever length of notes you need onto an ordinary looking staff.

So what's this mean to you? Maybe not much. Maybe nothing at all. But to me making my music public is my pride and joy and the original writings in my Big Book of Staff Paper along with the lyrics here and there are only way I can express myself. Following this pragraph is my list of MIDI.

Omar! Originals

1. The Dance
2. Untitled
3. Untitled 2
4. Untitled 3
5. Another Untitled
6. Yet Another Untitled
7. Touch Me --lyrics by Eddie Rick
8. You Guessed It...Untitled
9. Untitled, needs help
10. Most Famous Untitled Work
11. One More Untitled
12. Untitled, Unfinished
13. DragonChlyde --for Creed
14. No Fears Text available here.
15. Omar's Lament
16. Smile
17. Waves
18. Heart of Gold
19. The Difference Text available here.
20. The North Wind
21. Can't Break Out
22. Illusionary
23. Screaming in Silence
24. Everything I'd Hope to Be
25. Thank You For Your Love words by Jimmy Gialelis
26. Please Let Me Love You words by Jimmy Gialelis
27. When I Close My Eyes words by Jimmy Gialelis

Other Peoples' Stuff Arranged by Omar!

• Rave Dancetune by Tommy Tollarico from Cool Spot (Virgin Games)
• Axel F Artist Unknown...please help!
• Miki Finn I have NO idea who wrote the music, nor do I really care. All I know is that it's © Excalibur Films, Inc. I did this for miss Micki's place in web world

One last thing I HAD to include was "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.

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