- What Equipment Works Best With Midi Hits?
- Why Do Some Tracks Seem To Drag in Places?
- How Do I Test To See If I Have A Polyphony problem?
- How Do I Know which mix I'm getting?
- How can I check out your quality?
- What is included with the Audio CD format?
- How Quick Can I Get My Order?
- How Many Instruments Do You Use In Your Tracks?
- On some tracks I hear a hand clap that seems to be out of place. Why Is this?
- Something happened while I was downloading the order. How can I go back and download again?
- I'm Interested in downloading MP3s. I hear the melody on the samples. Will this melody be included in the MP3?
- What's the difference with Midi Type 1 and Midi Type 0 formats?
- During the order process, my system crashed (or lost connection). How do I know if my order went through, and if so, how do I get it?
- I don't have a credit card, can I pay by check/money order?
- Are all tracks editable?
- Do your tracks come with lyrics?
- How come there's nothing in my Shopping Cart even after putting songs in it?
- Can I Download an Audio CD?
- Do your tracks fade out?
- I'm hearing a hand clap that doesn't sound right. What's going on?
Midi Hits are very sophisticated sequences and require professional quality equipment. We strongly recommend a sound module with a minumum of 64 notes of polyphony. Midi Hits feature GS programming code (an advanced GM).. so a module that also contains GS will be a bonus. With improper equipment, you may not always get good results.
Additionally, equipment that plays less than 16 channels won't do. If you have an older keyboard, for example, that can only play 8 channels.. what will happen to the rest of the channels on the backing track? The results will not be nice...!
Some equipment claims to be General Midi, but actually does not include the
"Full GM" specs. For example, the GM specs call for 8 drum
kits. Some "so-called" GM keyboards only include 1 to 3 Drum
Kits.
Polyphony..! This is the only word you need to know in cases like
this. Sound modules are rated by how many notes they can process at a
given moment in time. The larger the number, the better your module
is. Suppose your module is rated for 32 notes and a Midi Hit tries to send
50 notes. Something has to give..! You may hear some
"click-offs" or your module tries to play the extra notes but plays
them "late"... and what you hear is the track lagging in places.
Mute everything but the Drums and Bass. Let these insturments play by
themselves. If the song plays in time, add another instrument to the
mix. Continue doing this until you begin to hear glitches, dragging, or
click offs. When this happens, you just added an instrument too much for
your sound module.
Great question...! Today, record companies are trying to bleed these
record productions as much as possible...so they have this marketing idea of
having several mixes of the same song. As a rule, Midi Hits always selects
the mix that is on the Billboard Charts.
If we do a different mix, it is noted.
Just browse or search for songs using our search engine. You'll see
speaker icons with hundreds and hundreds of songs. Just click the
speaker. You will need the free Real Player from real.com to hear the samples.
Our backing tracks on Audio CD are quite different than you will find on
Karaoke CDs or tapes. First of all, all of our tracks are designed for
professional performances and have that very special "live" feel with
emphasis on the bottom end. With midi where you have the ability to tweak,
the Audio CD is your final mix. We remove the melody track and any
background singing tracks.
If you are having your order emailed to you, we try to get it to you within a
couple hours during our business hours. It may be a bit slower on
Mondays... but you will always get your order the same business day. If you
don't get it the same business day, there may be a problem with the order.
You should email us or phone our order department.
Midi Hits follows the actual recording. Whatever instuments that are on
the recording, you will get (within reason) in your Midi Hits Tracks. When
we say "within reason", we mean that if there were 8 violins, 3
cellos, 3 trumbones, 4 saxes, etc in the actual recording, we are going to have
to put some of this into sections, because the current midi specs allow only 16
instruments.
If you hear a "hand clap" that's out of place, 99% of the time you
should be hearing a "brush hit". The reason you are not is
because the instrument you are playing it on is not 100% GM and does not have
the General Midi Brush Drum Kit included. The "hand clap" and
the "Brush Hit" occupy the same midi note number. The only thing
that causes one to play rather than the other is the drum kit.
On the piano menu, select "my profile". This will bring you to the MY PROFILE MENU. Select "View Orders". You will now
see a summary of your orders. Click on the order you want to download
again. You will be brought back to the download page.
On the contrary. All MP3s are in CD resolution minus the melody.
Additionally, all backup singing is gone from the MP3 and CD formats.
The melody is only there for a reference point in the samples as well as in the midi
formats. (Of course, with the midi format, you can mute any track you
wish. There is no melody either in the Audio CD formats.
Midi Type 1 is a General Midi File with multiple tracks. This
format retains the track label and can be seen by most sequencer software
products.
Midi Type 0 is a General Midi File with a single track. This format does
not retain any track label information. We recommend this format only if
your equipment requires it (and some equipment does).
First of all, look in your SHOPPING CART. If the songs you
ordered are still there.. then your order did not get completed. You can
simply checkout again.
If your SHOPPING CART is empty, this would indicate your order was
processed. Click on MY PROFILE.. Then click on VIEW ORDERS. You will
see a summary screen of all our orders. Click on the "Details"
link of the order you wish to visit. This will bring you to a download
page.
Yes, of course. Order as usual. When you get to the check
out screen, form payment select 'check'. You will be asked to print out
the order form and mail it in with a check. The address will be on top of
the order form. Payment in US$ is required.
For all midi formats, the answer is Yes. How to edit really
depends on the equipment and/or software you are using. In some cases, you
will need to make your edits in the 'event list' page.
(MP3's and AudioCD formats are not editable).
Most of our songs do come with embedded lyrics. Lately, we have
been synching these lyrics to follow the melody for those of you who have
equipment that can show lyrics while the song plays. All titles that show
up in Maroon color have synched lyrics.
If you have something on your computer that is blocking our system
from communicating with your computer, like a FIREWALL, or a POPUP blocker,
disable it while placing items in your shopping cart and checking out.
Once you are finished with the Midi Hits site , feel free to enable your
FIREWALL.
Not exactly.. but if you wish to burn your own audio CD.. then order the MP3
format. Download the MP3 (s).. and use your CD burning software to
burn an AUDIO CD.
If you order the AudioCD format, we will be producing your CD for
you and mailing it to you.
It was 'tacky' in the 50's on American Bandstand and it's still 'tacky'
today! We would never leave a performer on stage with a fade out.
All of our tracks contain a natural ending.
More than likely, we are calling up the GM Brush Drum kit and it's not
responding on your equipment. The GM Brush kit does not have a "hand clap"
sound. The note that gives the hand clap on other drum kits is used for a
"Brush Slap" on the GM Brush kit. This problem occurs frequently on Yamaha
PSR series keyboards in which the keyboard is not responding to the GM Brush Kit
command. If the keyboard refuses to go into the Brush Kit, you will hear
'hand claps' instead of the 'brushes'. We recommend that you contact the
technical people at your keyboard manufacturer for advise.
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