tion of a MIDI sound can be readily altered without producing distortions. Another
editing advantage of MIDI is that it allows a single skilled musician to create and play
an original composition that otherwise would require the efforts of many skilled pro-
fessional performers and technicians. This has provided multimedia developers with a
source of significantly less expensive original music.
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Small Files: MIDI sounds on computers also have another striking advantage: small file
size. A MIDI file is a listing of alphanumeric messages. These take up far less space than
the many thousands of samples per second recorded for sampled sound. In fact, MIDI
files may be up to 1000 times smaller than comparable sampled sound ...
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