Ok, I appreciate the different inputs.

It is fine by me if we do two files, one "vanilla" and one with everything full blast from effects and stuff like that, or maybe we could have that in the MIDI file? Like intro/first verse is vanilla, and second verse is full hard core?

My idea was to take a standard file, and let people modify that using their keyboard, to produce the best sounding result that keyboard can produce, using both their talent, skill and the quality of their instrument. This will also show the real potential in the instruments, from a real world perspective, and not the perspective of the engineers at the production companies.

How you play the MIDI through your keyboard, is your business, if you load it through a disk in your keyboard, transfer it, or use a computer based sequencer is all ok, no criteria here.

I do think MP3 is the way to go, and since the midifile intended should be shorter than 60 seconds, I think the filesize will stay in the 1mb region. MP3 is more "global" than WMA.

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