A scant few years ago, the sound of a symphony orchestra on computer would have been unheard of. Well, believe it or not.
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MIDI is an acronym that stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, and represents a technology that enables instrument sounds to be encoded in a very brief format, sent over a phone line, and played back using a digital wavetable sound card which stores actual digital recordings of real instruments.
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You've got to hear it for yourself to decide what you think, but the result is light-years ahead of the FM synthesis common on older sound cards which were common just a couple of years ago. Because of this technology, music-lovers can enjoy background music linked to the web pages they visit.
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