A QuickTime movie that contains only a music track can
give you 10 minutes of music for 60K with similar fidelity, although you??™re limited to the sounds contained
in the QuickTime synthesizer.
Today, MIDI files appear on the Web in one of three ways:
n QuickTime Music: MIDI information is stored as a music track within a QuickTime movie, and
it is played back through the QuickTime software synthesizer (or through a hardware synthesizer
such as a sound card if the user has configured QuickTime to use one). The QuickTime synthesizer
sounds have often been criticized for being a little bland. Music tracks can coexist with all
other kinds of QuickTime media in one movie, so they make excellent soundtracks for digital
video tracks. QuickTime movies have a filename extension of .mov.
n Rich Music Format: Beatnik??™s hybrid audio/music format. MIDI information is played through
the Beatnik player??™s software synthesizer, which contains generally excellent and often original
sounds. Moreover, additional instrument sounds can be included in an RMF by adding digital
audio samples with the Beatnik Editor. RMF files are unique among music file formats in that
users cannot get the raw MIDI data out of them. Some content authors see this is as an advantage.
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