midi or mp3?

[Matthew]

:confused: What do you think?:confused:

MIDIs or MPegs? which is more efficient

[fredal]

Depends what you want to do with them

Midi are great as backing as long as they are decent versions

But MP3's are better for full tunes with vocals etc

[Richard_M]

Totally agree with you fredal. I use Midi's a lot for backing as there are only a couple of us in the band atm.

[Cindy]

I also agree.
mp3 are good to listen at.
midi are great for backing.

[Jurgen]

mp3's are listen songs, midis are great for backing

[DJ_Twiglet]

I agree, I use midi files whener I do productions and shows!

Dave,

[Danny72]

midi files on a top keyboard is the best option i think

[NiC]

may seem silly but i use midi's for stationery. :rolleyes: everyone laugh!

mp3's are great for listening to though. be cool to have an mp3 player. :)

NiC

[magicamente]

midi are way smaller too!

[NiC]

absolutely smaller! i can save a whole bunch of these whereas on my tiny computer i cant really save mp3's as they take up too much room.

nic

[Roger]

My band use MIDI files for backing tracks when doing live gigs. Whats good about that is that we can simply adress a click track to the drummer. If we shuld do the same thing with MP3 we would have to play the backing tracks in mono, and the click to the other channel. But if i did'nt have to care about the click i would go with the MP3-format because it''s more convenient without all the synths we have to setup each gig.

[§ereña]

I think everyone here agrees that MIDI'd are good for background music/backing and are ALOT easier to download.

MP3's are almost exactly the same as the tracks on an audio CD, but just a little less in quality....though you can't tell. If you have a 28.8k modem they will take from 40min-1hr to download one track.

If ur looking for a quick karoke, instrumental type file then go with MIDI.....otherwise if u want a proper song form an album, then MP3 is ur type of file.

[Steve25]

yea midi is better if you have a slower connection speed.

[MajBoothroyd]

Midi's I only use for Web Design. Otherwise it's MP3 all the way... I love my music collection. Well I sometimes use midi's as a place to start for creating ring tones as well. Since I still use the ancient Noteworthy which will put it in actual score sheets for me to read.

[Darkflame]

Midi files sound almost as good as MP3's to me if you make sure you have a high quality sound card with sound fonts or other type of hardware type soundbank...however when it comes to vocals, midi's just won't cut the cake unless it's a part of your sound bank but then again, that just makes mp3's more efficient seeing that your soundbank will occupy just as much space.

[rabe]

midis are good for edit mp3 are good for listen to :cool:

[sbouda]

I prefer Mp3. Im still trying to find an easy way to convert midi to mp3

[john.hankinson]

Its kind of an odd question. Its like comparing a pixel-based Bitmap image to a vector-based metafile image. They achieve different ends.

A MIDI file is effectively a complicated form of music script, where as a MP3 is sampled digital audio. One contains instructions of how to play the tune (MIDI) and the other is the actual performance (MP3).

[theARTiSAN]

What would you need an mp3 of a MIDI for?
Just curious...

You could record the MIDI in Cool Edit Pro, Soundforge, WavLab (etc etc) by playing it through your soundcard - or play from MIDI keyboard recording to your computer -
Save as a WAV then convert to mp3 with favorite mp3 encoder (Lame, etc...)

[glitter]

I think midi's are more professional to perform with than mp3's.

[cgkb]

I've only ever used mp3's until now for listening to.
but now I want to get into midi's. what's a good starting software for beginners to buy/use?

[RedXIII]

MP3

[theproducer]

strange question ---> mp3 or midi? :confused2

those 2 are totally different and for totally different use.

is combining them a solution? :d

[liquidbond]

i think mp3's are way better because u can actually here the person sing and stuff but wit a midi all your here is the melody of the song which is good because u can relax with the music

but i'd still pick mp3 over midi

[The Keeper]

From an onstage point of view, midi is the best option, you can also assign a track to a midi vocal effects unit to turn on or off the effects, a track for midi guitar so you don't need to dance on pedals. However, I find a midifile converted to an mp3 is clearer sound wise on stage, whether it be the way it is converted, I don't know. Also, you can add backing vocals to an mp3

[The Keeper]

But then again with midi you can hook up to a vocal harmonizer

[Ralph'e']

midi is a musicians tool!
mp3 is just, well, for playn..

ur right "theproducer"

two totally diff things!~

[Ronny]

Karaoke use mp3 mostly but to use it for a band is improbable.

You can't add a click track.
You can't change volumes on individual tracks to allow for difference in acoustics at different venues.

You can't bin the guitar a play it yourself.

You can't take the ending of one song and paste it onto the ending of another to get rid of a fade out track.

The list could go on and on.

[djdarren]

Midi is good if you have a good pc set up. I prefer Mid because i have a recording studio facility. i advise Mpeg for beginners

[Padder]

Sure that midi & mp3 are not the same!
there's no need to choose because not equal.