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Pouring some MIDI commands out for Bobby Prince, RIP

FURBNET UPDATE: you can now open any midi on jampea! click the corresponding link on the midi's page
demo: https://furbnet.com/jampea.php?id=96519

the first MIDI has been uploaded to https://www.furbnet.com, courtesy of @… (he also arranged it)
i had to add it manually since the upload system isn't d…

the first MIDI has been uploaded to https://www.furbnet.com, courtesy of @… (he also arranged it)
i had to add it manually since the upload system isn't d…

Are there any really easy-to-get-started music apps for Linux in the style of something like GarageBand or a tracker that come with some sounds so I have something to just play around with a bit using my MIDI keyboard without it becoming a whole tech learning journey?

"Since MIDI itself does not specify how program numbers map to instruments, General MIDI ensures that the Third Eye Blind song you send to your buddy over AOL will not inexplicably have bagpipes in it."
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MIDI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Aphex Twin:
🎵 Alberto Balsalm
#AphexTwin
https://shho.bandcamp.com/track/aphex-twin-alberto-balsalm-piano-cover-sheet-midi-tabs-chords
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gbmylJ7sB7NFfMfTQHosf

This is brilliant
https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/midi-controllers/polyends-midi-and-qwerty-keyboard…

Polyend’s MIDI and QWERTY keyboard hybrid looks like such an elegant design concept that we wonder why no one thought of it before
The prototype of this spiritual successor to the Creative Prodikeys is about to go on show, and it’s heading for production

"Since MIDI itself does not specify how program numbers map to instruments, General MIDI ensures that the Third Eye Blind song you send to your buddy over AOL will not inexplicably have bagpipes in it."
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MIDI

I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get a new MIDI Merge box. Time for some MIDI feedback loops and congestion / bandwidth abuse! Or just some new good ol' human-duets-with-generative machine artifacts.

Une autre policière, harcelée sexuellement, a dénoncé l'auteur des faits en 2021. Il a été licencié. Des collègues se sont alors retournés contre elle. Il est arrivé que son repas de midi soit jeté Š la poubelle. Ses chaussures noires ont été maculées de couleur au vestiaire. Cette policière est aussi partie.

https://furbnet.com/midi81695_Subways-Of-Your-Mind.html this, for the curious, is the MIDI i use for my intro slideshows on @…

FURBNET UPDATE: we’ve redownloaded a solid 95% of the corrupt MIDIs (all the ones we were able to get that *aren’t* still corrupted), so you’ll encounter those a lot less now! https://www.furbnet.com

FURBNET UPDATE: we’ve redownloaded a solid 95% of the corrupt MIDIs (all the ones we were able to get that *aren’t* still corrupted), so you’ll encounter those a lot less now! https://www.furbnet.com

MazzikaAI: A knowledge-based performance-to-prompt compiler for real-time Arabic maqam accompaniment with a streaming text-to-music model
Jiaxin Du, Boulbaba Abdeljaouad, Yong Zhuang, Haoyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10360
arXiv:2608.10360v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Arabic maqam music microtonal, modal, and built on ornamented call and response is among the traditions most underserved by generative music models, whose training frameworks remain predominantly Western and equaltempered. Real time accompaniment sharpens this gap: an AI partner must listen, adapt dynamically, and respect idiomatic microtonal structures. Streaming text to music models provide strong generative capabilities but lack precise control interfaces. We present MazzikaAI, a knowledge based system that uses natural language as the actuator of a realtime control loop. By compiling live MIDI, gesture, and inferred harmony into continuously updated text prompts, MazzikaAI steers an unmodified streaming generator, Google Lyria RealTime, without requiring model finetuning. The system embeds expert knowledge of six core maqamat, characteristic ornaments, and ensemble dynamics, maintaining realtime responsiveness with subsecond keytoaudibleupdate latency. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that dynamic prompt compilation reliably grounds generation in microtonal scales, significantly increasing offgrid quartertone content over baseline generation. Beyond its core implementation, MazzikaAI illustrates how deterministic knowledgebased rules can effectively bridge expert, nonWestern musical traditions and unfinetuned foundation models. This architecture establishes a scalable paradigm for realtime humanAI cocreation, offering a generalizable blueprint for interactive accompaniment, adaptive music education, and culturally inclusive generative audio across diverse global idioms.
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FurbNET WAP is now up and running (-ish, still need to work on the home page and whatnot)
go download some midi ringtones like it’s 2005 (if your phone still supports them, that is)
for example: http://wap.furbnet.com/m16765
or use the WAP link on any MIDI from your desktop

FurbNET WAP is now up and running (-ish, still need to work on the home page and whatnot)
go download some midi ringtones like it’s 2005 (if your phone still supports them, that is)
for example: http://wap.furbnet.com/m16765
or use the WAP link on any MIDI from your desktop

I built another custom controller for someone because I like doing it and you know, they do pay me for my work...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2026/09/09/midi-dual-mini-controller/

oh, https://www.furbnet.com now shows the actual midi count on the site :P

oh, https://www.furbnet.com now shows the actual midi count on the site :P

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 26. Juni 1967 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Midi Mist". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Neva…

FURBNET TODO (as of jun 07 2026)
- midi upload and db system
- scrape midi and comments from hamienet (they're public use so it should be fine) and stick them in our DB (so we can actually reliably search them)
- figure out forums and accounts - accounts are very closely tied to the forums (some ancient phpbb install), so we either need to get ancient phpbb running or (more likely) simulate the experience and use our own account system tied to that instead

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Claude Debussy, Sinfonia of London & John Wilson:
🎵 Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #SinfoniaofLondon #JohnWilson
https://open.spotify.com/track/4N3I7L9TLLbLcJITZSwTld

@… interesting one for you: this midi is supposedly karaoke (it was pulled off a midi karaoke system), and while some of the MIDIs from this system do have proper lyric tracks, this one only has the key guide. however, if you open the file in a text editor and scroll down, you can find garbled text which *looks* like lyrics (albeit in the wrong encoding or something)
any idea how to read them? https://furbnet.com/midi104049_I-Think-Were-Alone-Now.html

@… i have more crusty URLs from my weird websites, check this one out: https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva?i=6&a=midi&id=1

by the way, if you haven't seen it yet, check out this cool midi my friend @… made
https://www.furbnet.com/midi96415_ObLaDi-O

@… interesting one for you: this midi is supposedly karaoke (it was pulled off a midi karaoke system), and while some of the MIDIs from this system do have proper lyric tracks, this one only has the key guide. however, if you open the file in a text editor and scroll down, you can find garbled text which *looks* like lyrics (albeit in the wrong encoding or something)
any idea how to read them? https://furbnet.com/midi104049_I-Think-Were-Alone-Now.html

RE: https://beige.party/@Lana/117199176134302013
Anyone else remember when drum machines appeared? Or midi keyboards with 92 different instruments you never needed to learn how to play? Or the electric pianos that played the sound of someone else's actual piano?
Using mechanized skills we don't have or can't afford isn't the problem. The LLM problem is the total societal cost, the damage, and who ultimately profits. MIDI may have taken jobs and aggravated a few ulcers, but it never killed anyone.

another karaoke-supported midi: https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke95992_Missing-You.html

by the way, if you haven't seen it yet, check out this cool midi my friend @… made
https://www.furbnet.com/midi96415_ObLaDi-O

FURBNET PROGRESS: database system has been rewritten, it's now *way* faster! MIDI previews are generated and cached on demand, as well! give it a try! https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva

another karaoke-supported midi: https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke95992_Missing-You.html

Was ich an Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi mag: links ein orangegelber niederländischer IC, rechts ein TGV in pink-silber, und ich selbst sitze im DB-ICE. Belgische Züge gibt es natürlich auch, und den Eurostar nicht zu vergessen.

added a #pride flag to https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva :)

will be sharing various karaoke-able MIDIs from FurbNET while i actually add detection of and linking to the ones that *are* karaoke-able
https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke92984_Im-Gonna-Be-500-Miles.html

I'VE GOT A FEVER
AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION
https://www.hamienet.com/midi96490_Dont-Fear-The-Reaper.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Claude Debussy, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Simone Young:
🎵 Prelude Š l'apres-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #BergenPhilharmonicOrchestra #SimoneYoung

anyone here experienced with #PHP stuff, #MIDI stuff, or both stuff, and willing to help out on a dumb little project of mine? we could use more hands (or paws, or other appendages)
boosts appreciated

LONG OVERDUE FURBNET UPDATE: work on MIDI parsing and sheet music generation has begun! i'm going to be reusing alex's original hamienet code from ~2005 for this (it's honestly amazing and i don't think i could top it), and just adapting it a bit to work with furbnet. the first thing i'll probably do is populate the "midi information" section, and then from there work on sheet music generation

LONG OVERDUE FURBNET UPDATE: work on MIDI parsing and sheet music generation has begun! i'm going to be reusing alex's original hamienet code from ~2005 for this (it's honestly amazing and i don't think i could top it), and just adapting it a bit to work with furbnet. the first thing i'll probably do is populate the "midi information" section, and then from there work on sheet music generation

This was such a fascinating product! Apple literally as reseller of DOS and Windows.
Essentially a complete PC on an expansion card; it would run DOS/Windows in parallel with the Mac and you could switch with a keyboard combo.
Also includes the worlds weirdest cable with four ends to connect the card and monitor and video output of Mac and to provide a PC game port (I think the game port was meant more for MIDI stuff than a joystick?)

i think that myhouse.wad would be greatly improved if it had a MIDI of the eponymous flo rida song playing throughout the entire map

i think that myhouse.wad would be greatly improved if it had a MIDI of the eponymous flo rida song playing throughout the entire map

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Claude Debussy, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marcello Viotti:
🎵 Prélude Š l'Après-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #SaarbrückenRadioSymphonyOrchestra #MarcelloViotti

La Poste s’apprête Š tourner la page du dossier électronique du patient (DEP). Selon nos informations, confirmées jeudi après-midi par La Poste, l’entreprise a décidé de mettre un terme Š cette activité d’ici Š la fin de l’année. Un retrait aux conséquences potentiellement majeures pour la numérisation du système de santé suisse. L’annonce constitue un choc pour les cantons alémaniques qui avaient construit leur stratégie DEP autour de l’infrastructure de Post Sanela.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/seisme-a-berne-la-poste-se-retire-du-dossier-electronique-du-patient

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Bamao Yendé:
🎵 Midi Minuit (feat. Lala &ce & MC ZKW)
#BamaoYendé
https://bamaoyende.bandcamp.com/track/midi-minuit-ft-lala-ce-mc-zkw
https://open.spotify.com/track/5VcxpWVdDT31IHk6R6GU1z

oh look, it's my awful code! go yell at it, everyone! #FurbNET

FurbNET
MIDI site, in the style of classic HamieNET

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Claude Debussy, Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie & Klaus Mäkelä:
🎵 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #OrchestredeParis–Philharmonie #KlausMäkelä

TO DO BEFORE (first parts of) FURBNET CAN GO LIVE:
- individual new midi list handling (page and htaccess, probably under ?i=6)
- search/page/card/whatever generation function
- preferably at least fix the swf a little bit
- proper csv
so we're on pretty good track i'd say

TO DO BEFORE (first parts of) FURBNET CAN GO LIVE:
- individual new midi list handling (page and htaccess, probably under ?i=6)
- search/page/card/whatever generation function
- preferably at least fix the swf a little bit
- proper csv
so we're on pretty good track i'd say

wonderful stereo, my right ear loves all the vocals https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/15756/PCFORMAT07.iso/MIDI/ALONENOW.MID

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewGenerationArtists
- 2026 Proms season showcase - Elizaveta Ivanova and Andrew Hamilton
Vaughan Williams's wondrous Five Mystical Songs, Debussy's sultry Prélude Š l’Après-midi d’un faune and Poulenc's effervescent Flute Sonata from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002z7v5

wonderful stereo, my right ear loves all the vocals https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/15756/PCFORMAT07.iso/MIDI/ALONENOW.MID

shoutout to alex of hamienet fame, who, i have just discovered, wrote an entire in-house MIDI parser in vanilla php

shoutout to alex of hamienet fame, who, i have just discovered, wrote an entire in-house MIDI parser in vanilla php

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Dimanche Midi:
🎵 Cartoon Nightmare
#DimancheMidi

FURBNET UPDATE: before, all midi pages contained "karaoke" in the title, description, and keywords - now only midis that actually offer karaoke do!
compare this karaoke midi: https://furbnet.com/midi92940_Human.html

FURBNET UPDATE: before, all midi pages contained "karaoke" in the title, description, and keywords - now only midis that actually offer karaoke do!
compare this karaoke midi: https://furbnet.com/midi92940_Human.html

for reference, one of the original title bars (logo was edited but text is entirely unchanged) https://www.furbnet.com/graphic/gif/title-bar-midi.gif

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Claude Debussy, Emmanuel Pahud, Berlin Philharmonic & Sir Simon Rattle:
🎵 Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #EmmanuelPahud #BerlinPhilharmonic
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Et8aNjJY8NywYYT10qa1H

your daily random old MIDI: https://furbnet.com/midi96524_Invisible-Touch.html

currently this is what our "midi not found" pages look like (pretty close to the original ones): https://furbnet.com/midi99999.html
do you think we should put iva on them just to make them look a bit less bland, like on the 404 page: https://furbnet.com/thispagedoesnotexist.html

your daily random old MIDI: https://furbnet.com/midi96524_Invisible-Touch.html

@… midi from https://www.furbnet.com/midi29507_Dead-Or-Alive--You-Spin-Me-Around-Like-A-Record.html

currently this is what our "midi not found" pages look like (pretty close to the original ones): https://furbnet.com/midi99999.html
do you think we should put iva on them just to make them look a bit less bland, like on the 404 page: https://furbnet.com/thispagedoesnotexist.html

this midi is SEVEN MINUTES https://furbnet.com/midi4887_Blue-Monday.html

@… midi from https://www.furbnet.com/midi29507_Dead-Or-Alive--You-Spin-Me-Around-Like-A-Record.html

this midi is SEVEN MINUTES https://furbnet.com/midi4887_Blue-Monday.html

@… you might enjoy this: i found a midi from the tail end of *1980*! https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/1203/MIDICraft's MIDINET CD-ROM.iso/MIDFILES/MIDISONG/S.ZIP/SWEETCAR.MID

another karaoke midi, this one of my own sequencing: https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke95992_Missing-You.html

@… you might enjoy this: i found a midi from the tail end of *1980*! https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/1203/MIDICraft's MIDINET CD-ROM.iso/MIDFILES/MIDISONG/S.ZIP/SWEETCAR.MID

shoutouts to Norma Williams. sequenced hundreds of midi files and i cannot find any trace of her online besides that. no idea who she even was besides that name

another karaoke midi, this one of my own sequencing: https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke95992_Missing-You.html

karaoke buttons now appear on individual MIDI pages as well, like so: https://furbnet.com/midi16765_Your-Wildest-Dreams.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Claude Debussy, Marc Bouchkov & Julien Quentin:
🎵 Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #MarcBouchkov #JulienQuentin #newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NvL0LFbYudokeIBaadU9P

shoutouts to Norma Williams. sequenced hundreds of midi files and i cannot find any trace of her online besides that. no idea who she even was besides that name

karaoke buttons now appear on individual MIDI pages as well, like so: https://furbnet.com/midi16765_Your-Wildest-Dreams.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Claude Debussy, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Ilan Volkov:
🎵 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra #IlanVolkov
#Spotify

another karaoke-supported midi: https://www.furbnet.com/karaoke95992_Missing-You.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Claude Debussy, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Simone Young:
🎵 Prelude Š l'apres-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #BergenPhilharmonicOrchestra #SimoneYoung

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Claude Debussy, Les Siècles & François‐Xavier Roth:
🎵 Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #LesSiècles #FrançoisXavierRoth

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Claude Debussy, Philharmonia Orchestra & Geoffrey Simon:
🎵 De l'aube a midi sur la mer (La Mer)
#ClaudeDebussy #PhilharmoniaOrchestra #GeoffreySimon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Claude Debussy, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Matthew Rowe:
🎵 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #NorwegianRadioOrchestra #MatthewRowe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Claude Debussy, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Alain Altinoglu:
🎵 Prélude Š l’après-midi d’un faune
#ClaudeDebussy #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #AlainAltinoglu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Claude Debussy, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Alain Altinoglu:
🎵 Prelude A L'apres-midi D'un Faune
#ClaudeDebussy #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #AlainAltinoglu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Claude Debussy, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Mariss Jansons:
🎵 La Mer - 3 symphonic sketches, no.1; De l'aube a midi sur la mer
#ClaudeDebussy #RoyalConcertgebouwOrchestra #MarissJansons