Gem Midi Files Oriental

Oriental Strings is a virtual sound module app for oriental keyboardplayers and for musicians who simply want to resemble the typical sound of theMiddle East in their songs. Connect an external MIDI keyboard to your iPad,iPhone or iPod touch byusing the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported byApple¹, or launch OrientalStrings as virtual instrument directly within your favourite DAW app on youriPad!

This app supports Apple's Audio Unit v3 plugin standard (iOS 9 or higher),Audiobus (iOS 7 or higher),Apple's Inter-App Audio system (iOS 7 or higher),as well as the JACK Audio Connection Kit (up to iOS 6.1.3)for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps !

Oriental.mid midi files of M42's MidiWorld. Lu Bu's Theme (Oriental Remix) lubuorient.mid Playstation2 Games Music, Playstation2 music, Playstation2 midi, Games midi. GEM WS1 Oriental Keyboard - 1991 Oriental Styles & Demo Programmed by Maurice Tawile.

Sounds

The sounds of this app were once again created by Kurt Ader, who was awarded onthe NAMM 2015 winter show as »Best Sound Designer of the Year«.

Oriental Strings' sounds were exclusively recorded with players who areprofessionally dedicated to oriental style of music. Typical string instrumentsounds for the arabic genre are covered by this app. Besides rather exoticinstruments like the Chinese erhu, typical western string instruments were usedas well, but since the players of the recording sessions are focused onoriental music, those western instruments sound completely different than youmight be used to from western orchestra players.

32 Sounds are included with this App:

1. Chinese Erhu 1
2. Chinese Erhu 2
3. Chinese Erhu 3
4. Chinese Erhu Trill
5. Turkish Strings 1
6. Turkish Strings 2
7. Turkish Strings 3
8. Turkish Strings 4
9. Arabian Strings 1
10. Arabian Strings 2
11. Arabian Strings 3
12. Tremolo Strings 1
13. Tremolo Strings 2
14. Tremolo Strings 3
15. Tremolo Strings 4
16. Tremolo Strings 5

17. Spiccato Strings
18. Oriental Spiccato Strings
19. Oriental String Quartet 1
20. Oriental String Quartet 2
21. Oriental String Quartet 3
22. Oriental Staccato Strings
23. Arabian Solo Strings 1
24. Arabian Solo Strings 2
25. Arabian Solo Strings 3
26. String Quartet
27. Oriental String Ensemble 1
28. Oriental String Ensemble 2
29. Oriental String Ensemble 3
30. Oriental String Ensemble 4
31. Oriental String Ensemble 5
32. Slow Oriental Strings

There are no in-app purchases in Oriental Strings. Thus all sounds listed above are already available to you after buying the app without any extracosts involved.

Demo Video

A detailed review video of Oriental Strings (v1.0.0) by thesoundtestroom.com.

App Features

Oriental Strings is very easy to use. Just connect your external MIDI keyboardto your iPad and you are ready to play! The following is an overview of OrientalStrings app's main features:

Sounds based on high quality stereo sample set.
Scale tuning editor, which allows you to adjust the standard well-tempered scale to all kinds of oriental scales (save and restore them as presets at any time)
Polyphony up to 140 stereo voices.²
Configurable audio latency down to 5 ms.
Low latency disk streaming.
16 parts.
Configurable MIDI channel or omni mode for each part.
Integrated effects with 18 presets.
MIDI velocity response curve editor.
App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet.
Supports 'Audio Unit v3' for being used as convenient instrument plug-in with third party mult-track DAW apps (iOS 9 or higher).
Supports 'Audiobus' for audio routing between apps (iOS 7 or higher).
Supports Apple's 'IAA' system for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps (iOS 7 or higher).
Supports JACK Audio Connection Kit for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps (up to iOS 6.1.3).
Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable.

Scale Tuning

Since this app is focused on oriental style of music, it allows you to adjustthe app's tuning system from standard well-tempered scale to any other kind oftuning system. Simply open the scale tuning editor and move individual note'stuning bars with your finger. Save your favorite scales as presets and recallthem at any time with one tap!

Keyboard

Use the app's velocity curve editor to fine tune the feeling of triggering noteson your external MIDI keyboard. Save your velocity curves as presets, so you caneasily restore them in case you are using more than one MIDI keyboard.

You are on the road with no 'real' MIDI keyboard around? No problem, just scalethe virtual on-screen piano keyboard with two fingers to the size preferred byyou and scroll it with one finger to the keyboard section or octave you want toplay on. The resize and scroll features were implemented in a way which neverwill occur accidently while you are intending to play notes on the virtualkeyboard.

MIDI Player / Recorder

Oriental Strings comes with a built-in multi-part and multi-track MIDIplayer and recorder, which you can use for easy and quick recording your musicalideas without launching and configuring a separate app or external devices. Hereis a summary of its features:

Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play them.
Unlimited amount of tracks.
Configurable target MIDI channel per track.
Unlimited recording and playback length.
Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail).
Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes.
Metronome.
Use the 'Tempo Zoom' dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily.
Use the 'BPM' dial to record new or to overwrite existing tempo changes on the master track.

You are however not limited to the built-in MIDI player / recorder of course. Ifyou prefer, you can also use any other third party Inter-App Audiocapable sequencer or DAW app like i.e. Apple's Garage Band for recordingyour oriental tunes or simply for using Oriental Strings as virtualinstrument in your favorite IAA host app.

Polyphony & Supported Devices

Many sounds in this app are using several voices per note. The maximum polyphonydepends on the exact device model being used.

Device	Stereo Voices	Mono Voices
iPad Air	140	280
iPad Mini 2	140	280
iPad Mini 1	84	168
iPad 4	140	280
iPad 3	100	200
iPad 2	84	168
iPad 1	40	80
iPhone 5S	140	280
iPhone 5C	100	200
iPhone 5	100	200
iPhone 4S	84	168
iPhone 4	40	80
iPhone 3GS	20	40
iPod touch 5th gen.	84	168
iPod touch 4th gen.	40	80
iPod touch 3rd gen.	20	40

Appropriate polyphony is automatically detected and selected for your specificdevice model by the app for you. If desired however, you can override thepolyphony setting manually in the app's settings screen. For example to save CPUhead room for other apps running in the background.

Please Note: This app requires quite some hardware resources from the device. In casethere are problems with this app, please close apps in the background by double pressingthe device's home button, the list of active apps appears on the bottom of the screen,tap and hold one app icon in the list, then press the respective app icon 'minus' cornerto quit those apps.

¹ The adapter and / or the MIDI device you connect must be supported by the iPad / iPhoneoperating system in order to be able to use it with this app. To our knowledge there iscurrently no official list of supported devices by Apple. We recommend you to check whetheryour MIDI keyboard is supported by your iOS version, by using our MIDI monitor appMIDI Wrench, which is free!

Feedback

Download

Oriental Strings is currently available for the following mobiledevices. In case you encounter any problems while using this app, pleasereport it to us by using the feedback link above.

Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch:
You can get Oriental Strings as universal binary through iTunes from the Apple App Store. You need at least iOS 4.3 or later to be able to use this app.

You have questions about the Oriental Strings app? Don't hesitate to write us by using the feedback link above.

Page last modified:June 27, 2018.

Newest file ( 'Staying Alive' by Bee Gees) uploaded on February 12, 2017

I do not take credit for the creation, sequencing, or arrangement of these files. I just enjoy collecting them. A few I may have tweaked a little to sound better on the (at the time) AWE64 or to fix a stuck note or sustain pedal. Credit belongs to the authors as listed in the copyright notes/properties of the files. Also, all of these files are assumed to be in the public domain.

This page was originally designed to work with the Crescendo plug-in in Netscape. Alas, Crescendo is toast and I haven't used Netscape in forever. Well.. now it's designed to work best with Internet Explorer and uses Windows Media Player for the plugin. Oh, it works just fine with Firefox 32-bit versions 2.X - 54.X as well. You may need to install the Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin which I have made available here. The sites where you used to be able to get it no longer exist. (Doh!)

Sep 1, 2017: With Firefox 55 and later, the Windows Media Player plugin will no longer work even with the workaround below. It does still work with Firefox 52 ESR which you can get here. According to the chart on this page, the ESR version will work until the ESR 59 version comes out in Spring/Summer of 2018.

Feb 25, 2017: Beginning with Firefox 52, the Windows Media Player plugin will no longer work. See Why do Java, Silverlight, Adobe Acrobat and other plugins no longer work? - Mozilla Support Community. So, I'm not sure what I will do yet. On the DVD pages I may record the MIDI themes as MP3 files and use those. I've done this with the Benny Hill one.

Update: As it turns out, according to this DSLReports thread, with Firefox 52, you can use the NPAPI plugins by doing the following:

Go to about:config
Right-click and choose New -> Boolean and make a preference name called plugin.load_flash_only and set it to false.

May 15, 2013: For those that just upgraded to Firefox 21.X, you might have noticed the Windows Media Player Plugin is no longer seen. For now, the easiest solution to correct this is to go into about:config and change the value for plugins.load_appdir_plugins from false to true and restart Firefox. For more information about this, read this MozillaZine Thread.

Jan 24, 2013: For those using Windows 7 (like me now), you'll want to read my post on How to Make MIDI Files Sound Better in Windows 7

Some of my favorite MIDI files for download:

Note: I (used to) have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro and these sound(ed) great on it. All of the files here use the General MIDI format and do not require any special Sound Fonts or anything. For those with a X-Fi / Audigy / Live / AWE64 / AWE32 / SB32, check out my Sound Blaster page for stuff more specific to it.

RESET.MID (play it in midi frame) - I created this MIDI file out of frustration when I would play one particular MIDI file and certain ones I played after it sounded wrong (wrong instruments, the absence of some instruments, and so on). Also, every now and then I would get hold of a MIDI file that had a stuck note at the end of it and the only way to stop it was to reboot the system or load up my copy of Cakewalk Apprentice (by Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.) and hit the Panic Button in it. What I wanted was a MIDI file version of Cakewalk Apprentice's Panic button. With some help from their Tech Support and my own investigation, this is what I've come up with.

= Play the file in a popup media player window. You may have to enable popups for it to appear.

Bluegrass

Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith: 'Dueling Banjos' [2:23]
Ervin T. Rouse (composer): 'Orange Blossom Special' [2:35]

Johnny Horton: 'Battle of New Orleans' [2:35]
Traditional: 'Red Haired Boy' [2:16] sequenced by R.G. Allen

Classical

Beethoven: 'Fur Elise' [2:21]

Modest Moussorgsky: 'Night on Bald Mountain' [11:12]; 'Pictures at an Exhibition' [29:43]

Country

Conway Twitty: 'Slow Hand' [3:58]
Garth Brooks: 'Friends in Low Places' [3:44]; 'The Thunder Rolls' [3:54]

The Charlie Daniels Band: 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' [3:47]

Dance

Bee Gees, The: 'Night Fever' [3:39]
C&C Music Factory: 'Everybody Dance Now' [4:07] Karoake, has lyrics!; 'Gonna Make You Sweat' [4:07]
Chic: 'Le Freak' [4:55]
Commodores: 'Brick House' [4:56]

Lips Inc.: 'Funky Town' [5:40]
Los del Rios: 'Macarena' [4:10]
The Tramps: 'Disco Inferno' [4:06]
Unlimited: 'No Limits' [3:27]

Electronic

Unique II: 'Break My Stride' [3:07]

Folk

Gordon Lightfoot: 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' [6:40]

Heavy Metal

Dokken: 'Dream Warriors' [4:04]

Metallica: 'and Justice for All' [9:59]; 'Blackened' [6:43]; 'Damage' [5:01]; 'Enter Sandman' [5:32]; 'Harvester of Sorrow' [6:21]; 'Jump in the Fire' [4:43]; 'Master of Puppets' [7:54]; 'Nothing Else Matters' [6:22]; 'On Through the Never' [4:04]; 'One' [6:57] YouTube Video; 'Sad But True' [5:20]; 'Unforgiven' [6:09]; 'Wherever I May Roam' [6:42]

Miscellaneous

Andre Dossinger: 'Space' [2:29]
Joerock: 'Joerock's Megamix' [5:37] See megamix.txt for more info.
Mark Headrick: 'Reset MIDI Device' [0:02]

New Order: 'Blue Monday' [7:37]
Unknown Mixes: 'Mix97' [9:09]; 'UltiMix' [7:36]
Warlock / Grace S.: 'Guitarous' [4:07] Instrumental Guitar converted from a MOD file

New Age & Celtic

Bomi: 'Drunken Sailor's Dance' [2:49] I remember singing this in vocal music class.
Enigma: 'Mea Culpa' [3:52]; 'Return to Innocence' [4:12]; 'Sadeness' [4:28]
Enya: 'Carribean Blue' [2:56]; 'Cursum Perficio' [4:25]; 'Orinico Flow' [4:20]; 'Storms in Africa' [4:04]

Michael Walthius: 'Echoes' [5:47]
Ronin Hardiman (from Lord of the Dance): 'Gypsy' [2:13]; 'Riverdance' [5:48]; 'Siamsa' [4:38]; 'Victory' [2:47]
Suzanne Ciani: 'Mozart' [3:48]; 'The Velocity of Love' [4:25]

Pop & Rock

Gem Midi Files Oriental Music

Ace of Base: 'All That She Wants' [3:26]; 'Don't Turn Around' [3:46]; 'Happy Nation' [3:32]; 'The Sign' [3:12]; 'Wheel of Fortune' [3:52]
Bangles: 'Walk like an Egyptian' [3:15]
Bee Gees: 'Staying Alive' [1:59] Cause it was the 59th Grammys
Billy Idol: 'Flesh for Fantasy' [4:06]; 'Mony Mony' [3:29]; 'White Wedding' [3:22]
Bob Seger: 'Old Time Rock and Roll' [6:17]
Britney Spears: 'Baby One More Time' [3:24]
Chantays, The: 'Pipeline' [3:42]
Chris Rea: 'Road to Hell' [4:08]
Club Nouveau: 'Lean On Me' [5:30]
Crash Test Dummies: 'Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm' [3:44]
Danny & the Juniors: 'At the Hop' [2:30]
Dire Straits: 'Money for Nothing' [8:04]; 'Sultans of Swing' [6:04]
Donna Summer: 'She Works Hard For The Money' [4:05]
Doors, The: 'Riders on the Storm' [7:34]
Eagles: 'One of These Nights' [4:35] Has lyrics!
Elton John: 'Candle in the Wind' [6:36]; 'Pinball Wizard' [3:22]
Eric Clapton: 'Cocaine' [3:57]; 'Layla' [5:02]; 'Tears in Heaven' [4:24]; 'White Room' [5:36]
Europe: 'Final Countdown' [5:26] this song Rocks!!!
Falco: 'Rock Me Amadeus' [2:36]
Foreigner: 'Waiting For A Girl Like You' [4:38]
Frankie goes to Hollywood: 'Relax' [3:37]
Gap Band, The: 'You Dropped the Bomb on Me' [4:14]
Genesis: 'I Can't Dance' [4:03] but the banana can!; 'Mama' [5:23]
George Michael (Wham): 'Careless Whisper' [5:52]
Human League, The: 'Don't You Want Me?' [4:03]
Jerry Lee Lewis: 'Great Balls of Fire' [1:56]
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller: 'Love Potion No. 9' [2:08] It even has Lyrics
Joan Jett: 'I Love Rock and Roll' [3:01]
Journey: 'Oh Sherri' [3:50]

Kansas: 'Dust in the Wind' [3:27]
Linda Ronstadt: 'You're No Good' [3:45] Has Lyrics
London Beat: 'I've Been Thinking About You' [3:18] (Karaoke)
Madonna: 'Borderline' [3:57]; 'Get Into the Groove' [5:26]; 'La Isla Bonita' [3:55]; 'Like a Virgin' [3:15]
Marvin Gaye: 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' [4:24]; 'Sexual Healing' [4:29] good song
Mason Williams: 'Classical Gas' [2:46]
Men At Work: 'Land Down Under' [3:25]
Men Without Hats: 'Safety Dance' [4:32]
Michael Jackson: 'Beat It!' [4:14]; 'Smooth Criminal' [3:29] Contains Lyrics!; 'Thriller' [5:28] Has Lyrics!
No Doubt: 'Don't Speak' [4:26]
Pet Shop Boys: 'West End Girls' [4:29] Has Lyrics
Peter Schilling: 'Major Tom' [3:43]
Queen: 'Another One Bites the Dust' [2:57]
R.E.M.: 'Losing My Religion' [4:37]
Rolling Stones: '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' [3:37]; 'Start Me Up' [3:36]
Shocking Blue: 'Venus' [4:04] Bananarama performed cover of song in 1986
Steve Miller Band: 'Abracadabra' [3:51]; 'Fly Like an Eagle' [4:04]; 'Joker' [4:34]
Sting: 'Every Breath You Take' [3:40]
STYX: 'Mr. Roboto' [4:36]
Surfaris: 'Wipe Out!' [4:48] great drum track!
Survivor: 'Eye of the Tiger' [4:05]
Talking Heads: 'Burnin' Down the House!!!' [4:09]
Thompson Twins: 'Hold Me Now' [4:30]
Toto: 'Down in Africa' [4:13]
Ugly Kid Joe: 'Cats in the Cradle' [4:01]
Van Halen: 'Jump' [4:22]
Yes: 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' [6:17]
ZZ Top: 'Under Pressure' [3:39]

Rap

Blondie: 'Rapture' [4:35]

Rhythm & Blues

Bill Withers: 'Ain't No Sunshine' [3:38]

Sade: 'Smooth Operator' [4:34] YouTube Video

Trance

DJ Sammy and Yanou: 'Heaven' [4:04] Not too bad..
Jason Flaherty: 'Trance Dominant' [4:05]

The Shamen: 'Boss Drum' [3:47]
Unknown: 'Trance' [5:46]

TV & Movie Themes

Bill Conti: 'Rocky: 'Gonna Fly Now' [2:46] by Bill Conti
Ennio Morricone: 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' [3:15] by Ennio Morricone
Henry Mancini: 'Pink Panther Theme' [2:32] YouTube Video
Ian Lewis: 'Bad Boys' [3:59] the theme to Cops!

John Williams: 'Jaws Theme' [1:45]; 'Lost In Space' [2:11] (New Mix) (John Williams); 'Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Raider's March' [5:09]; 'Star Wars: 'Duel of Fates' [4:09] Sounds good on the X-Fi; 'Star Wars: 'Imperial March' [1:46]; 'Star Wars: 20th Century Fox logo and Main Theme' [2:23]
U-96: 'Dasboot' [5:21]
Unknown: 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Theme' [3:40]; 'Star Trek: First Contact Theme' [2:48]; 'Star Trek: Generations Theme' [1:45]; 'Air Force One' [1:56]; 'Apollo 13' [2:35]; 'Axel-F Theme' [2:46] 7/1/97 Better sounding version.; 'Battlestar Gallactica' [3:16]; 'Benny Hill Theme' [1:58] seq. by Don Carroll; 'Blade Runner' [3:44]; 'Budweiser Theme' [1:26] This Bud's for You!; 'Doctor Who' [1:20]; 'Ghostbusters Theme' [4:06]; 'Gilligan's Island' [1:00] Variation of the above; 'Gilligan's Island' [1:00]; 'Holy Grail' [0:18]; 'James Bond' [1:52]; 'Mission Impossible' [3:14] Theme, variation 2; 'Monty Python Theme' [2:03]; 'Mortal Kombat Theme' [3:06]; 'Superman Theme' [4:27]; 'Terminator II Theme' [1:53]; 'Thunderbirds Theme' [3:15]; 'THX Intro Sound' [0:20]; 'Titanic - 'My heart will go on' [5:00] (Celine Dion) seq. by Tim Akehurst, Dedicated to Lara; 'X-Files Theme, Dance Version' [3:29]; 'X-Files Theme, Full' [3:29]; 'X-Files Theme, Intro' [0:45]

Videos of MIDI Files Being Played

Links to other MIDI sites and resources

Update Monday, October 03, 2011: It seems that the bulk of the sites I had linked on here either no longer exist or their contents had totally changed or been removed. I am currently looking for some new sites to link here.

Gem Midi Files Oriental Store

Music of Cyberspace (www.keybdwizrd.com), contains original songs by Michael D. Walthius. His music is excellent and I highly recommend visiting this site. Per copyright restrictions, I cannot post any of his files here. 4/18/2007: Well, dang.. his website is gone. Hmmm... :( 7/19/2009: Hey, I found his new website! www.michaelwalthius.com or www.thekeyboardwizard.com
MIDI Manufacturers Association - Lot of hardware and other information here about MIDI
alt.binaries.sounds.midi USENET Newsgroup. Great place for trading MIDI files. If you're looking for a particular MIDI file, this is the place to ask.
I had a link to the FAQ from alt.binaries.sounds.midi, a lot of useful information with many common questions about MIDIs answered, but it's not valid anymore. Looking for another site. If you know where it is now, contact me. For now, you can look at an old copy I have: absmfaq.txt.

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