MIDI is only primitive if your soundcard is a piece of
trash. MIDI is like sheet music: sheet music is as
good as your orchestra/voice/whatever, and MIDI is
as good as your soundcard/synthesizer/whatever.
And there's no denying, you can store a whole lot of
music on a hard-drive full of MIDI files.
The only music I don't like MIDI for is music that
really has to have the lyrics, such as Weird Al's
stuff, or a capella music. For that, there's WAV
format. I have about 6 Gigs of WAV on my hard drive,
consisting of the songs I like from various albums.
I have way more music in MIDI format, but it takes
up a lot less space and sounds just as good.
The formats I *don't* like are the lossy formats, such
as MP3. I like my music to sound good, and lossy
formats don't deliver.
Of course, there's always that .pl format... mutters
something incoherent about polyphonic fractals
{my$c;$ x=sub{++$c}}map{$ \.=$_->()}map{my$a=$_->[1];
sub{$a++ }}sort{_($a->[0 ])<=>_( $b->[0])}map{my@x=(&
$x( ),$ _) ;\ @x} split //, "rPcr t lhuJnhea eretk.as
o";print;sub _{ord(shift)*($=-++$^H)%(42-ord("\r"))};
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