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Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by bitwize »

It just didn't get more Windows than Canyon.mid. 90s corporate Memphis in musical form, the kind of thing you'd hear over a 3D computer animation -- or opening a corporate training video. Its full title was "A Trip Through the Grand Canyon" or similar; no surprise, that was also the subject of many a 3D computer animation back in the day.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by mrblampo »

GaylordTuring wrote: post #10
littlebentoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> listening to this song Song? It’s just music there’s no singing in it. Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87

Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by frogulis »

underwater wrote: post #9
littlebentoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> listening to this song Song? It’s just music there’s no singing in it. Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.

Calling instrumental pieces "songs" does exist in real-life common usage even if it's not "technically" correct. After all, the ancestor post did just that.

Depends how prescriptive you want to be.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by pjbeam »

littlebentoo wrote: post #8
mrblampo wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing this! My sister and I used to love listening to this song on our Gateway 2000 when we were kids.

> listening to this song Song? It’s just music there’s no singing in it. Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

Since when does a song require singing..?

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by gfosco »

adamredwoods wrote: post #12

I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not made by Iomega, that were cheaper?

I think there were indeed some 3rd-party zip disks. I had several drives, thought they were really cool at the time.

Re: Canyon.mid

#26

Post by mrleinad »

gchucky wrote: post #13

There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds

I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by markshead »

underwater wrote: post #9
littlebentoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> listening to this song Song? It’s just music there’s no singing in it. Midi is an instrumental only declarative format.

How am I only just learning that a a piece of music is only a song if it has vocals? Even the name makes that obvious.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote a collection of pieces called Songs without Words for the piano. This might suggest that the term "song" can be more nuanced than simply whether or not there are vocals.
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