Category:Passport Designs Midis

This category lists all midi files that were created as part of Passport Designs, a company known for having a handful of midi files.

If you're not interested in reading up the History of Passport Designs, click this link to jump to the category: https://midis.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Passport_Designs_Midis#Category_of_Passport_Designs_Midis

History
Back in the late 90s, Passport Designs had to compete with Voyetra Technologies, another company who composed midi files, and also offered music composing software.

However, despite having to compete with other companies, Passport were able to make more midi files, and were the first company to have their own midi files added to builds of Windows that had audio support.

During this time, Passport Designs had already composed Passport & Canyon, two of the most known Windows midi files.

These two midi files were packaged alongside a handful of other midi files and were installed onto a Windows 3.0 machine if the Tandy OEM Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions patch was installed.

These midi files are known as the Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions Midis.

Tandy OEM Demo Jukebox
If Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions is installed on Windows 3.0, Passport & Canyon, and all of the Windows 3.0 Multimedia Extensions midis also appear in the jukebox on the Tandy Demo Utilities (Tandy OEM) menu.

A video showcasing the Tandy OEM Demo Jukebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN7wICVD30o&t=250.

The midi files featured on the jukebox (listed in order of where they appear):
 * Passport
 * Someband (listed as "Someone's Band")
 * Canyon (listed as "Canyon Music")
 * Almonds
 * Dreamy
 * Metblast (listed as "Rockin'")
 * Stomp (listed as "King George's Stomp")
 * Seasons (listed as "Four Seasons")
 * BRNDNBRG (listed as "Brandenburg")

Official Passport Designs Website with extra Midis
Passport Designs had an official website where 426 midi files (excluding Passport & Canyon) could be found.

However, for some mysterious reason, all of their midi files were deleted off of their website after June 3rd 1997.

Sadly, in December 1998, Passport Designs went bankrupt and was bought out by G-VOX Entertainment. From there, they closed their website, and no more Passport Designs midis were made.

G-VOX did NOT allow the company to compose any more midi files, ending the era of Passport Designs and their midi files.

Luckily, the official Passport Designs website & most of its .mid files can be viewed using the Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://passportdesigns.com/*.

Note: The search box must have .mid typed in; if not, the index will list all files found on the website (such as links, images, etc.)

The official website can also be found using Wayback Machne (archive.org):

3rd June 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703193701/http://passportdesigns.com/ (Sadly, all links that would normally lead to the MIDIs download page takes you to a 404 page, making the midi files inaccessible without using the above file search link. The official, functional midi links will also be listed on each individual Passport Designs midi page on this wiki)

6th December 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/19981206102511/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/ Passport Designs goes bankrupt message. Any other website archives (captures) after that redirect to G-VOX's website. There isn't any midi files composed by G-VOX, unfortunately.

Midis found in Passport Designs Products
Passport Designs included some of their less known midi files in with their products other than their website; MusicTime Deluxe for Windows 3.1 came packaged with midi files such as Bigband.

Some of the midi files found on Passport Designs' official website can also be found hidden away in their products; Matt The Retro Geek, a YouTuber, has uploaded a video showcasing a CD containing some of these midi files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4.

A few of the Passport Designs midi files found on their website have also made it to a Packard Bell Multimedia CD for older Windows 1.0 machines to add sound to them. Most of their midi files featured here have been slightly altered, and have been converted into .rmi midi files.

A category for those midi files can be found here: Category: Packard Bell Microsoft Multimedia Pack for Windows 1.0 RMI Midis

Canyon & Passport post Windows 3.0
As of Windows 3.1, all of the other Passport Designs midis included with the Tandy Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions were removed, except for two midi files; Passport & Canyon. This was likely because midi files were still needed to test audio on Windows machines.

On Windows 95, the two midi files were joined by the first few midi files  NOT  composed by Passport Designs; Clouds, a midi file which was added as an official Windows Easter Egg, DXDiag, a midi file created for the sole purpose of testing soundcards, and the RMI Classical MIDI files.

For Windows NT machines, all midi files except for Clouds were included. Clouds would not reappear in any builds of Windows after 95.

In 1998, Passport Designs tragically went bankrupt, and were bought out by G-VOX, who in turn, prevented Passport Designs from composing any more midi files.

However, both Passport & Canyon would go on to outlive their company for at least 2 more years:

Passport & Canyon, along with the RMI Classical MIDI files were included in Windows 98, being joined by IE4CHAN, a prototype of Flourish, which can be heard if IE4 was installed.

In Windows 2000, IE4CHAN would become Flourish, and replace DXDiag as the soundcard test midi file, joining both Canyon & Passport as test midis.

However, as of Windows ME Build 2419 (Windows ME Beta 2), a prototype of Windows ME, all midi files were removed, leaving the Media Folder empty:

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.

When the final version of Windows ME was released, all of the original midi files were gone for good, including the two Passport Designs midis; they were replaced by Onestop & Town, which were  NOT  composed by Passport Designs, since they had gone bankrupt back in 1998.

Upcoming Midi File Pages
This is an index of Passport Designs midi files that will eventually have pages. Once these midis have a wiki page, they will be removed from this index, and can be found listed in this category below:

citylife
citylife.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=315

Midi Link: Unless the .mid file comes under a different name, this midi has not been found in their archives.

spring
spring.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=1720

spring.rmi on an unknown soundcard (or soundfont): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepVNf5GKaI&t=1985

Midi Link: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703211719/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/map/songs_database/150_Spring.mid

Packard Bell RMI version: https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SPRING.RMI

Last Resort Link (Packard Bell RMI version): https://web.archive.org/web/20180505195646/https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SPRING.RMI

sun & moon
sun & moon.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=1823

SUNMOON.RMI on an unknown soundcard (or soundfont): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepVNf5GKaI&t=2144

Midi Link: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703214555/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/map/songs_database/sun_moon.mid

Packard Bell RMI version: https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SUNMOON.RMI

Last Resort Link (Packard Bell RMI version): https://web.archive.org/web/20180505195649/https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SUNMOON.RMI

sunnyfield
sunnyfield.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=1944

SUNFIELD.RMI on an unknown soundcard (or soundfont): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepVNf5GKaI&t=2086

Midi Link: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703214531/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/map/songs_database/sunfield.mid

Packard Bell RMI version: https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SUNFIELD.RMI

Last Resort Link (Packard Bell RMI version): https://web.archive.org/web/20180505195648/https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/SUNFIELD.RMI

Alps
alps.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=2006

THEALPS.RMI on an unknown soundcard (or soundfont): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepVNf5GKaI&t=2263

Midi Link: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703211130/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/map/songs_database/130_Alps.mid

Packard Bell RMI version: https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/THEALPS.RMI

Last Resort Link (Packard Bell RMI version): https://web.archive.org/web/20180505195645/https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/THEALPS.RMI

trains
trains.mid on Matt The Retro Geek's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1TH47kCr4&t=2067

TRAINS.RMI on an unknown soundcard (or soundfont): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lepVNf5GKaI&t=2320

Midi Link: https://web.archive.org/web/19970703211315/http://www.passportdesigns.com:80/map/songs_database/137_Train.mid

Packard Bell RMI version: https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/TRAINS.RMI

Last Resort Link (Packard Bell RMI version): https://web.archive.org/web/20180505195649/https://gekk.info/midis/PBellMM/TRAINS.RMI

And guess what? There's more! There's 426 Passport Designs midi files, and some of them are variations of other midi files. This will be the biggest category on this wiki in the future, with CD Exclusive Corel midis just behind.