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Until recently I never use a midi track. What I found out is that there are tons of them on the net and mostly 'free'. They are at less better than those tracks where you try to remove the vox from the original song. Thay are at less good enough for home use. I sub my last 2 songs using midi backing.

Don't know why people are avoiding them.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

First of all Badsinger, it depends on what kind of midi processing unit you have. With a good quality midi processor (e.g. the Roland SD-20 Studio Canvas) you can get great quality sounds. Of course the method of programming the music, plays a big role. When you record the midi tracks, and the actual instruments are used, say a guitar with a high quality midi converter, you will get a very good quality sounding guitar synthesized midi track.

So, in short, yes I agree with you. There are very well programmed midi sequences, as well as very cheesy ones, but then again, you have the same problem with some cd+g manufacturers. I have some midi tracks that are really good. Time and quality instruments were used during the sequencing of these songs.

One step up from that is midi sequencing with audio samples. Now that’s where the fun starts!

I know little; alost nothing about how MIDI is made, am more of the end user. The good thing about MIDI track is that it can be remix. You cant do that to an audio track. About the only thing you can do to an audio track is to change vol, key and may be tempo. But MIDI you can change the vol of each instrument channel, mute, pan the instrument or even change it. And all this using free play back program.
Some program can even restyled the song, say from rock to reggae at the push of a button.
Yet people are prefer to devox a song from thier cd.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

The only issue with midi files is that even though they are 'free' they lack the licensing needed for public playback in most cases.

I know a number of people that use them with their 'one man band' to do the drums, keyboards, and other instruments that they aren't playing at the moment.  If you use a good quality synth - especially one that has the samples loaded for the appropriate instruments - you can get sound quality that approaches that of a live band.  Lots of professional musicians use midi but because of the cost of the better quality synthisizers and such you find that most consumers aren't really getting into midi in anyway other than playing back through the lousy synth on most soundcards.