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Standard MIDI File (SMF) are instrumental musical files carrying sounds events that can be played back.

== Play .midi files in VLC ==
{{VLC}} can play MIDI since VLC 0.9.0 on most platforms and 1.1.0 on Windows.

=== SoundFonts file ===
To playback those .midi files, you need a SoundFont file: .sf2.

You can download them here:

* http://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php
* http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/wiki/SoundFont