Midi can be exceptionally useful for jumpstarting one's audio project. Here is a curated list of midi resources, borrowed from [Albert Moronyo](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources). ## Aggregated collections - [The Largest MIDI Collection on the Internet](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/3ajwe4/the_largest_midi_collection_on_the_internet/), collected and sorted by [u/midi_man](https://www.reddit.com/user/midi_man) - [The Lakh MIDI dataset](https://colinraffel.com/projects/lmd/) is a collection of 176,581 unique MIDI files, 45,129 of which have been matched and aligned to entries in the Million Song Dataset - [The MIDI Archive](http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/MIDI/), archive of the [Utrecht University](https://www.uu.nl/) - [Composers Offering MIDI Files on the Net](http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/SMF.html): Links to Sites Maintained by Professional and Amateur Composers - [MIDI Links](http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~cmckay/midi.html), collections of links to web pages which contains MIDI material (midi files but also technical references, notes, ...) by [Cory McKay](http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~cmckay), McGill University ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#pop-rock)Pop-rock - [MIDIWORLD](http://www.midiworld.com/) Files downloadable by URL appending "`/download/ID"` - [FreeMidi](https://freemidi.org/) ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#classical)Classical - [Dave's J.S. Bach Page](http://www.jsbach.net/midi/) - [MuseData](http://musedata.org/) Library of classical music scores (MIDI, MuseData, Humdrum) - [The Josquin Research Project](http://josquin.stanford.edu/) Complete score of polyphonic music from ~1420-1520 (MIDI, Humdrum, MuseData, MusicXML, MEI, ...) - [A Johann Sebastian Bach Midi Page](http://bachcentral.com/) ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#folk-music)Folk music - [Midikaos](https://midikaos.mnstrl.org/) ≈3k MIDI files of world music. ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#videogames)Videogames - [Video Game Music Archive](http://www.vgmusic.com/) - [SCUMM Bar](http://scummbar.com/) Contains Monkey Island MIDIs ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#drums)Drums - [The Drum Percussion Midi Archive (800k)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/3anwu8/the_drum_percussion_midi_archive_800k/) ## [](https://github.com/albertmeronyo/awesome-midi-sources#miscellaneous)