Then I found WinGroove
(for Win 3.1/95). I was very, very skeptical at first. Every other program
I had had some drawback to it, I was waiting hear this one's. The first
MIDI I played was the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Aeroplane.
I smacked myself in the face. I Whooed. I jumped for joy. I'm being literal.
"Did you hear those drums? Listen to that guitar! It's working! With no
slowdown!" As with anything that has this much wonder to a man, I was afraid
to touch it. It was a Godly program. I gave to my friend. He agreed. And
life was good. It can be installed as a driver. That means anything
that uses Windows for MIDI playback will play at Wavetable Quality. Even
on a 486 PC.
Of course there is the issue of it being only a 10-day trial period before you have to shell out 20 measly dollars. But I.. um, resolved that, and have been using this program over a year. I almost forgot what FM Synthesis sounds like. Yuck. My sound now almost matches that on one of my friends AWE 32. People: Really, truly, honestly: Try this. It'll take you 20 minutes (on a 14.4) to get this. And 20 dollars to register it or another 20 minutes to find the registration some other way, you slime of the internet. ;-)
I don't have enough server space to put up the WinGroove Zip file.
So instead, I'll offer up a link for the Official
WinGroove Web Site. Note that the site has an English and Japanese
version, only the author's English isn't too hot. Feel free to visit anyways.
On the official page you'll find samples as to what WinGroove
can do- that is if you're STILL not convinced; and updates for the program.
Here on my page I'm offering up my all time favorite MIDIs, individually
and in a ZIP file, which I highly recommend you get instead. ;-)
Long, huh? How 'bout I offer a trip to the Top
or maybe to My Main Page? I'm such a nice guy!
In No Particular Order, 'cept maybe Alphabetical
Get WinGroove, the MIDIs are back finally!
The "Demo" series Demo 1, Demo 2, Demo 6, and my all-time favorite Jazz Midi Martians in Love.
Wrestling MIDI music!
A Zip file with some old WWF wrestlers MIDI's (Not included in other ZIP)
Stone Cold Steve Austin's theme
Bret's WCW theme (So says the filename!)
Gooooldberg Goooldberg Goooldturd
nWo B-team music (pretty poor MIDI)
Lex Luger's WCW theme (go take everything, take
everything I want you to..)
DX's music
Taker Dude's AWESOME Undertaker Theme
Sorry I didn't site sources.. more MIDI's and order should be added to this page in three weeks, I'm on vacation!
Plus:
Jazzy Midi's taken from a "Best Of" Page:
Utilities other than WinGroove:
A XMI to MID converter. Play that game music you always wanted!
Midi Ripper. Damn those Apogee bundled files! Now tear those MIDIs right out of those group files!
GET A PACK OF COOL MIDI'S HERE:
A lovely MIDI file collection! A bunch of
my favorite songs (plus some that just make for good MIDIs) Plus "Groovy"
bonus!
Want more? Think I have something I'm holding back? Mail
me! Just be nice!
Let's play count the moochers! 1.. 2.. !!! Wow, you're my kind of people!
I have to go for more graphics and flashiness! Well now that you've mooched all you can here, go to my Main Page and find another spot to mooch!