repository of public domain MIDI files?

Anything about MUSIC but doesn't fit into the forums above.
Post Reply New Topic
RELATED
PRODUCTS

Post

Would love recommendations! I've found a couple that are geared toward classical music but would love to find others that may include some pop/rock/alt songs as well.

thanks!

Greg K.

Post

Public Domain usually requires the author to be deceased over 70 years. There's hardly any pop / rock written before 1949 :shrug:
We are the KVR collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Image
My MusicCalc is served over https!!

Post

BertKoor wrote: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:14 am Public Domain usually requires the author to be deceased over 70 years. There's hardly any pop / rock written before 1949 :shrug:
Haha, good point. Well in that case, any rock oriented MIDI files that are available to be used non commercially?

Post

While not technically public domain, you can also find a lot of free (or very cheap) royalty-free midi files for more recent genres. I've found it harder to find free royalty-free guitar midi though iirc Cymatics had some.

For public domain music, the people providing midi usually claim copyright over the midi. Whether that's enforceable or not is questionable though, since a mechanical transcription of public domain material would not be copyrightable from what I've read, unless it added sufficiently original/creative elements....

Post

Have you looked here?

http://www.midiworld.com/

Post

RichieWitch wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:01 pm Have you looked here?

http://www.midiworld.com/
no, but thanks a lot!

Post

killmaster wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:21 pm
RichieWitch wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:01 pm Have you looked here?

http://www.midiworld.com/
no, but thanks a lot!
Glad I could help. 8)

Post

I'd like to look at some neo-soul/Gospel progressions.

Post Reply

Return to “Everything Else (Music related)”