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It was included in Windows since Windows 3.1 (maybe earlier) up to but not including Windows XP.įlourish, composed by Nathan Grigg. It was composed by George Stone for Passport Designs. The full title of this composition is “Trip Through the Grand Canyon”. It was included in Windows since Windows 98. It has been described as being “less bad” than the previously included MIDI files, and I think I’ll agree with that.

One Stop is the longest of the MIDI files in the media and features the most instruments. Raymond Chen says that they’re from WinXP, but I remember seeing it in WinME, so I’m going to say they’re from Win98. There seems to be some confusion over whether the three current MIDI files (flourish.mid, onestop.mid, town.mid) were first included in Win98 or WinXP. I’ve tried searching for the composer, but without success (apparently, George Stone knows nothing about it). It kind of sounds like the background music for a DOS game, like Commander Keen. This was one of two files (the other being CANYON.MID) included to promote Passport Designs. PASSPORT.MID was first included in Windows 3.1 and was included until (but not including) Windows XP.

Let’s go look in the MEDIA folder, shall we? The SoundFont used to render the MIDI file is indicated after the filename. In this post, I’ve rendered the MIDI files using one of two SoundFonts: Microsoft’s 2gmgsmt.sf2 and Finale’s synthgms.sf2. MIDI files don’t actually store any sounds it can be thought of like sheet music: the notes to play are contained in the file, and what it sounds like when played is up to the SoundFont used. The reason for that is because the critic didn’t use a good SoundFont. MIDI files are sometimes criticized for sounding terrible and dated. I won’t be featuring these in this post, just the original compositions. Ever since Windows 3.1, Microsoft has included MIDI files in the C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA folder so that if a user ever needed to troubleshoot a MIDI application, Microsoft support would have files that were reliably there.Īlong with original compositions, there were also MIDI files of well-known classical works, like Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.