What is Midia?

  Midia is a SOFTWARE ONLY midi file player for Silicon Graphics
Indigo and Indy machines.

Features include:

  o Complete 88 key keyboard for displaying tracks during play
  o Uses GUS compatible .pat files for instrumentation
  o Options such as stereo, mono, spatialization mode
  o Transpose and tempo adjust
  o Adjustable polyphony from 1 -> 16 channels
  o General Midi instrumentation
  o Easily play non-GM compatible midi files using .cfg files
  o Point and click online help
  o Many more...


Where to get it:
  Anonymous ftp site:  archive.cs.umbc.edu
  directory:           /pub/midia


Files to get:
 README           - this file you are reading
 README.gmpack    - notes about the gmpack.zip file
 midia.1          - man page for midia
 CFG_FILE_FORMAT  - format for configure files
 midia.Z          - compressed executable version of midia
 instruments.zip  - zipped file of all general midi .pat files
      or
 instruments.tar  - tarred file of all general midi .pat files
 soundtrk.pat     - The soundtrk.pat file in the instruments.zip file
                    is CORRUPT. REPLACE it with this file.

Optional files to get:
 example_mids.zip  - zipped file of some example midi and .cfg files
 bestmid1.zip      - various midi files found on the net
 bestmid2.zip        Some of these sound ok, some not.
 bestmid3.zip
 bestmid4.zip
 gmpack.zip


Notes:

 1) GUS instruments were freely obtained from anonymous ftp site:
    archive.epas.utoronto.ca        /pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis/disk
 2) Midia's User interface was developed using the forms/fdesign package 
    by Mark Overmars.

Midia (c) Copyright 1994 
by Mike Friedman
Mid-Atlantic Engineering (mae@access.digex.net)