Passport

Passport, also known as PASSPORT.MID or Passport.mid is a midi file that can be found in the Media Folder, alongside Canyon.mid to promote Passport Designs, who have also composed other midi files.

Loading this midi file up in certain midi editing software also reveals that it has a cue titled "Passport Please", which may actually be the song's full name.

The song lasts for 2 minutes, 3 seconds (2:03). It plays at 175 BPM.

The midi was rumored to have been composed by George Stone, but according to information on The Penguin Says at Wordpress.com, "George Stone knows nothing about it".

Passport.mid can be found featured in Tandy Demo Utilities, when going into the Multimedia Application Demos, and then into Entertainment, and then into Music for Multimedia: Passport.

This will load up a Passport Multimedia Music Demo with a midi Jukebox; Passport will be one of the midi files featured.

It is the first midi played in the video using the jukebox, using an OPL soundcard.

Video Evidence of Passport Design's Windows 3.0 Multimedia Jukebox here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN7wICVD30o&t=250. Passport.mid is played at 4:23 in the video.

Sadly, in Windows ME Build 2419 (Windows ME Beta 2), a prototype of Windows ME; no midi files exist in the Media folder:

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk2wkFSOR64&t=700 (pause at 11:42. and even though blurred, you can see that all the midi files have been removed in this build of Windows ME; the media player is set to "All Files", but there's no midis or RMI midis anywhere.

By the time Windows ME was released, all of the original 90s midi files, including Passport are gone, as they haven't been put back in the media folder since the protoype;

Instead, Windows ME and any Windows releases beyond have Onestop, Flourish and Town instead, with PINBALL being an extra midi file hidden in 3D Space Cadet Pinball's files.

Luckily, there are currently many places to find Passport.mid still on the internet.

Pictures
Passport.mid on Windows NT

Passport on Windows 2000

Passport.mid (Alternative Version)
An alternative version of Passport.mid also exists on Windows 3.0 where it has extra instruments (an out of tune Acoustic Grand Piano that actually are a prototype version of the current version's drums, Bright Acoustic Piano which acts like the Honky-Tonk does, a Bright Acoustic Piano acting like Slap Bass 1 and a Acoustic Grand Piano acting like Synth Bass 2), and the Electric Guitar (Jazz) is an Electric Guitar (Muted) instead.

Plus, the file size is larger than the known version.

Since this variant is found in Windows 3.0, it may possibly have been the original version of the midi file before it was altered slightly to be a smaller file for later builds such as Windows 95.

Passport (Known Version)
Honky-Tonk

Slap Bass 1

Electric Guitar (Jazz)

Pad 3 (Polysynth)

Blown Bottle

Orchestra Hit

Drums (Standard Kit)

Lead 1 (Square)

Brass Section

Synth Brass 1

Passport (Alternate Windows 3.0 Version)
Acoustic Grand Piano (Out of tune)

Honky-Tonk

Slap Bass 1

Synth Brass 2 x2

Pad 3 (Polysynth)

Lead 1 (Square)

Electric Guitar (Muted)

Blown Bottle

Brass Section

Drums (Standard Kit)

Orchestra Hit

Bright Acoustic Piano

Acoustic Grand Piano

Brass Section

Synth Brass 1

Comments (Midi Information)
Interestingly, the midi's information can only be found on the Alternate Windows 3.0 Version; it seems to have been mysteriously deleted on the known version found in Windows 95-Windows 2000.

C1-P4 ELEC PIANO

C2-P37-BASS 1

C3-P40-BASS 2

C4-P91-POLYSYNTH

C5-P81-SYNTH MELODY

C9-P29 ELEC GUIT

C6-P27-CLAVINET

C7-P77-BOTTLE

C8-P62-BRASS

C10-DRUMS

Other Notes
The standard version of Passport.mid has a glitch where the drums will load up as out of tune Grand Acoustic Pianos in VLC Media Player, rendering the ability to play the midi file in different soundfonts useless.

Oddly, this does not happen with the Alternative Version.

Luckily, there is a way to fix this annoying glitch: How To: Fix Glitches in Midi Files using Anvil Studio.

Listen to Midi
Since the midi file was designed to run on an OPL soundcard such as an OPL3, the midi file will sound drastically different on newer versions of Windows and Emulators since they use a Roland Wavetable General Midi soundcard.

(Note: If you're using Google Chrome or Opera, the midi files will download instead)

Listen to Passport.mid (Normal Version): http://soundblaster16.net/midi-p/passport.mid

Listen to Passport.mid (Alternate Version): https://archive.org/download/win3.0midi/PASSPORT.MID

Mirror Link 1 (Normal Version): http://goran.tangring.com/midis/POP/PASSPORT.MID

Mirror Link 2 (Normal Version): https://sites.google.com/site/musiccurios/downloads/passport.mid?attredirects=0&d=1

Mirror Link 3 (Normal Version): http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/icons/OEM/windows/win_2000_icons_and_more_by_alexstrand7/Audio/passport.mid

Wayback Machine Link (Mirror) (Normal Version): https://archive.org/details/passport.mid

Last Resort Mirror Links
If all the links above are broken, these Archive.org mirror links are most likely to work. However, using right-click to download the midis results in the file becoming corrupted upon download. They can only be saved by left-clicking on them.

Archive Link 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20200402200926/http://soundblaster16.net/midi-p/passport.mid

Archive Link 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20200402192102/http://goran.tangring.com/midis/POP/PASSPORT.MID

Archive Link 3: Archive of Music Curios' link

Archive Link 4: https://web.archive.org/web/20200402190755/http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/icons/OEM/windows/win_2000_icons_and_more_by_alexstrand7/Audio/passport.mid

Videos
Passport.mid (Alternative Version) in Passport Designs' Jukebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN7wICVD30o&t=263

OPL3 Passport.mid on an emulated Windows 3.1 on Nintendo Wii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHTiWDHlsE&t=169

Passport.mid Korg X5DR Render: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M639LswYim0

Other Soundcards
Note: The original version of this midi file is the OPL3 (Soundblaster 16) version.

Microsoft GS/GM Wavetable Synth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6SP1KpwEvs

Microsoft GS/GM Wavetable Synth (Alternative Passport.mid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zAb8nXcBtY

OPL3 (Soundblaster 16): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjWO3AnTMk

OPL3 (Soundblaster 16) (Alternative Passport.mid): PASSPORT MID on my computer bios.mp3.mp4 - YouTube

OPL3 SB16 Voyetra SuperSAPI: Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

OPL3 SB16 Voyetra SuperSAPI (Alternative Passport.mid): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Gravis Ultrasound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkxW_YT6Og&t=122

Gravis Ultrasound (Alternative Passport.mid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7fzA_HWk0

Sound Blaster AWE64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldDQ6xqw2NQ&t=731

Sound Blaster AWE64 (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Yamaha YMF724: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldDQ6xqw2NQ&t=1593

Yamaha YMF724 (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

DOSMID (MS-DOS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYn561A9PMo&t=622s - It is completely butchered, high pitched and sounds horrendous; you have been warned!

DOSMID (MS-DOS) (Windows 3.0 Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW26apuGurE&t=491s

DOSMID (MS-DOS) (Windows 98 Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW26apuGurE&t=2016s

Apple Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z2Ds4_8jgY

Apple Mac (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Mixcraft: Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Mixcraft (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Midi Devices
Roland SC-55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqIXtAa6XQ

Roland SC-55 (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Roland SC-88: Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Roland SC-88 (Alternative Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sW1wPZpXrs&t=125

Yamaha MU80 MIDI Device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_omoN4UpYws&t=86s

Yamaha MU80 MIDI Device (Alternative Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sW1wPZpXrs

Roland Integra-7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQ3Vuq7USk&t=131s

Roland MT-32 (MUNT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHEPBdIrWSs

Roland MT-32 (MUNT) (Alternative Version): Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Keyboards
Korg MicroARRANGER Keyboard: Sorry, there's no video of this yet....

Yamaha PSR-S950: Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Yamaha Electone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bz9WGHqUiE&t=99

Phones
Nokia x3-00 Phone: Sorry, there's no video of this yet...

Panasonic GD87 (Rohm BU8793KN synth): https://youtu.be/6TZcogXxzTI

Remixes of Passport.mid
Passport.mid - Rock Remix by Cursed Lemon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of15ZO66Q4g

A remix of Passport.mid using an electric guitar and keyboard by YouTuber "Cursed Lemon" in 2010.

Passport.mid - Sega Genesis 90's-style remix by DM DOKURO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmw6kJIaH6A

Adds a 90's style swing to the song, and uses Sega Genesis/Sega Megadrive styled instruments.

PASSPO~1.mid - by Blitz Lunar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFRwRXoEnC0

An arrangement of Passport.mid created by Dave Harris, also known as Blitz Lunar. A Yamaha MU100 and PLG100-DX Expansion board was used for this arrangement. Created for the collaborative album "STAFFcirc vol 6.0 - WINDOWS VARIAT~1"

PASSPO~2.mid - by coda: https://soundcloud.com/sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle/coda-passpo2-mid

A New Jack Swing-styled arrangement of Passport.mid. Created by coda for the collaborative album "STAFFcirc vol 6.0 - WINDOWS VARIAT~1"

PASSPORT.MID [Rock Version] - by WASD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9lxYNX_Qw

A rock cover of Passport.mid created by WASD for the album "C:\WINDOWS\MEDIA"