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god i love midi as a medium for distributing music. every playback is an arrangement: unless the author wrote the piece for the specific device you have, it won't sound exactly the same, and that's cool! interesting things can happen. sometimes bad, sometimes wonderful.
if you own several different midi synths (or, i guess, several software soundfonts, though i've never found them that interesting), then you have access to several arrangements of a piece. if i tire of the roland sound i can hear the yamaha take on something…
and of course a lot of the music out there in the midi format is already a cover of some existing song, and often there are several such covers. it's a fun way to listen to music if you enjoy hearing different arrangements of familiar songs.
@hikari it’s so cool. It’s like the days before recorded music, where the only way tunes got around was in sheet music form.
@hikari This makes me curious: would you consider performances of the same score by different orchestras/conductors to be arrangements?
@h0m54r this is a good question and i'm not sure!