                                                       !!! PLEASE READ THIS !!!

This is the second add-on pack of the 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' collection.

(Look out for the 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' collection - now more than 350 great
MIDI files! Available via FTP, filenames: BESTMID1.ZIP ... BESTMID5.ZIP - see
my MIDI page in WWW for details (adress below).


This Add-On pack was compiled by Gerd R. with the help of many people on the
Internet (see last section for thanks and greetings).
It is a collection of more than 100 MIDI files that sound great on the GUS
(Gravis Ultrasound) and probably any other General Midi soundcard.

The compilation is intended for the MIDI-interested GUS owner who doesn't want
to listen to the thousands(!) of MIDI files available on the Internet to find
out which files actually are good. I did and I tell you it wasn't always easy
to listen to the many badly done and incorrectly voiced files. This compilation
represents only my personal taste so maybe you won't like some of the files.
But since this compilation includes many different styles of music I'm sure you
will find some tunes you like.


All these files have only been tried out with PLAYMIDI version 5.06 on a GUS
with 1 MB onboard memory. There may be difficulties playing some of these files
with Windows (especially some PIANO files).


The compilation is split up into three parts:

  Classic :  classical music
  Piano   :  piano only music
  Pop     :  all other music
  
Ok ok, I know that this classification is not great, but I just don't feel
authorized to distinguish between Pop, Rock, Jazz, Folk etc. so I put all that
into 'Pop'.

I have now supplied 4DOS/NDOS file descriptions for all the MIDI files in this
collection. You can find a short information about the music and/or the author
there. If you have got Norton's NDOS, the shareware 4DOS or a similar DOS
utility you can view the description with the DIR command. The descriptions are
in the file DESCRIPT.ION which can also be viewed using a standard text editor.
  

As far as I know, all of these MIDI files are freely distributable, but most of
them are copyrighted. Most of these files were posted in the alt.binaries.
sounds.midi newsgroup, so I hope that distributing them is not prohibited. If
I should break any laws by doing this please tell me.

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This compilation couldn't have been done without:

all people who post in alt.binaries.sounds.midi ...

and of course all the known and unknown composers of these beautiful pieces
of music.


Greetings go to them and all the nice people who sent me feedback.

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One thing is very important for me: Whatever you think about this compilation -
if you think it's great or awful - essential or useless - PLEASE tell me!

Email your comments/gratulations/thanks/flames to:

 e8925292@student.tuwien.ac.at


And don't forget to visit my MIDI page in WWW:
  
 http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8925292/bestmid.htm
              
- to download all parts of the 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' collection
- for the latest informations
- for links to MIDI sources and other MIDI WWW pages


Finally, I want to thank all the nice people who sent me email - I am happy
about any feedback I receive, but unfortunately I don't have the time to answer
your emails.

Thank you very much,
                     Gerd.


Gerd R. is a student (but not a representative!) of TU Vienna, Austria, Europe.

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P.S.: 
Watch out for future add-on packs to the 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' collection ...