Musical MIDI Accompaniment

Examples

The most current version of MMA is 12.01a.

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Some Examples

A Short Sample

For those who like to “try before you buy” (even if stuff is free), here is a real-life MMA file for the Cole Porter tune “I've Got You Under My Skin”. Depending on your browser settings, you may have to left-click the following links to download to a file.

Download (1K): ive-got-you-under-my-skin.mma

And here is the MIDI file created by MMA.

Download (27K): ive-got-you-under-my-skin.mid

Quality depends on your MIDI synthesizer. Here is a MP3 file generated via Timidity and some good soundfonts: ive-got-you-under-my-skin.mp3.

MMA Songs

This archive contains 850 songs which I've converted to MMA. They are mostly jazz standards, but a few country and Latin songs can also be found.

Legal gooblygook: Please respect other people's copyrights—these files are supplied for educational purposes only and should most likely not be used for public performance.

The quality of some of these tracks ranges from “not-so-good” all the way to “pretty-darn-good”. I perform for various functions in our community and use MMA generated tracks played on a synth when going solo with just my saxophone (not always solo, sometimes my dear wife sings as well). These are the same files that I use. Hire me for a reasonable fee to really hear them!

All the song files are packed into a single Unix/Linux tar.gz file.

Download (331K): mma-songs-12.01a.tar.gz

The Kara-Moon Archive

Our friends at kara-moon have a large (well over 3000!) archive of songs in MMA format. These are mostly converted from "Band in a Box" sources. Most will need some work to use in performance, but they are fine for practice.

http://www.kara-moon.com/index.php?modid=mod02&l_submenu_id=m001_02_07

Plectrum Track Example

The Plectrum track (available in MMA 1.5c and above) emulates a picked or strummed instrument like a guitar. Here is a short example file showing a few of the features: