Tip: Available ending-version can now be seen in the details

We now indicate on the article detail page for Midifiles whether the article is available in one or two versions.

What does this mean?

Normally, the original song (i.e., our reference) ends with a played-out finish. However, often (especially in the past), artists have produced songs that continue endlessly at the end and then fade out (this is known as a "fade-out").

Since item number 18,000, or in the case of revisions to Midifiles from before that number, we have, in such cases, produced a second Midifile with an alternative/composed ending (ending-version) alongside the version that ends as in the original.

In such cases, you can choose whether you want to receive both Midifiles, just the one with the original ending, or the one with the composed ending, depending on what you specify in the format selection.

And what’s new?

Until now, we hadn’t indicated whether these two versions were available. For all articles where we added a composed ending, this is now specified.

For older files, we analyzed the Midifiles and made an educated guess as to whether the only version we offer might have a fade-out.

How did we do this?

Of course, with such a large catalog of articles, we can’t review each Midifile individually and determine whether a fade-out was programmed at the end or not. Instead, we conducted an analysis to check whether channels in a Midifile were gradually turned down before the end of the last note using Controller 11 (Expression). This, combined with the fact that both the melody (Channel 4) and the drums (Channel 10) also fade out at the end, allows us to make such an assumption. Of course, this should be taken with caution, as there are always cases that cannot be definitively determined without specific listening.