OK, so this isn't EDM-related, but I saw this over on the Sonar forums and figured I'd share. I studied this masterpiece (Igor Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps' [The Rite of Spring]) for my senior thesis way back when I was a music theory/composition major and I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into sequencing this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3njyDW8SY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pndt...feature=related

These are the first two parts - apparently, the last two parts are in mp3 format only.

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that is a colossal amount of work...

Good lord

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That's cool. I've seen some orchestral MIDI's (there's some on Vienna's site) and there's just shitloads and shiloads of automation going on. I can't even imagine how much time you have to spend on MIDI and automation if you want your orchestral pieces to sound even remotely organic/human.

Here's a few links from me Take a listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOkpGCM1xY - they've said in an interview that this entire piece is done in a sequencer in piano roll. No shuffle, swing, quantize or whatever
Can't understand how their brains didn't implode while making this.

The craziest MIDI shit I came across was someone transcribing a twelve tone technique piece (I think it was Bartok but I'm not sure) into MIDI. If you're not familiar with this take a listen at this sonata: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uanfKvqlj3M

Granted, it wasn't the entire piece but still.

While we're on this subject; There are videos of people playing this type of music without a staff Meaning they know it by heart. Think about how much time and dedication is needed for this.

me likes i often make my tunes in midi and been wanting to make a full classical peace of my own.
in time i will!