Remember? It has been included in every Windows from 3.1 (maybe earlier?) up to WinME. In case you’ve somehow never heard it, here. Its full title is “Trip Through the Grand Canyon”, and it was written by George Stone of Passport Designs.
**UPDATE 7/26/08: OH MY GOD!!!! LOOK IN THE COMMENTS!! The actual composer of the song commented on it!! This is, as you may imagine, an incredible dream come true for me — a fan arrangement being noticed by the original artist. ROCK ON, MR. STONE, you’ve influenced me in ways you probably never expected.
There was also a sort of jazzy groovy tune I loved that went along with Passport and Canyon. Anybody know?
Found this on a Google search…wow…brings back memories of the early 90s and Win31. BTW, the new arrangement is just…epic. Great work. I’m going to sound dumb for asking this, but is that live? Or a tracker?
Really nice arrangement! Made me remember playing Space Quest IV, Sim City and the likes while listening… I came here looking for the “original” for CANYON.MID, but now I’m sure this is as good as it gets, plus I get the Toto vibe, too! If I ever join a band again, this is gonna be on the setlist.
P.S: Pearl Jam comment must have been a troll’s evil deed!
Wow.. that sounds really good.. my fav was passport. first time i herd it i was in the 1st grade.. Gateway Performance 450. whopping 8gb hdd and a pentium III.. wow old days… you really gotta do passport
Oh my!! Thank you so much! Incredible to hear canyon.mid redone that nicely! good old days…
You sir, are a god amongst men. I managed to get this song in my head after listening to demo tracks on my old keyboard, and your version of this song totally rocks! The drums and guitar are second to none – I do think that the piano could use a little sprucing up though, but honestly I can’t complain!
Im even tempted to make this the ringtone on my mobile phone!
Great work – well done!
This is so cool, really good work, i wonder if i could play this new version in win3.1?
oh, by the way, i use the old win3.1 version AS my ringtone :)
This is so amazing!!!!
Dear People,
I am consistently amazed by the pathways life chooses to follow. Reading everyone’s comments has been a poignant but bittersweet moment that has brought me to tears.
I was the chief MIDI Producer for Passport Designs in 1990, during which time I composed “Trip Through the Grand Canyon.” While I have observed my name mentioned once in this posting (though without reference), in almost 20 years I have never been given credit for this composition that has apparently delighted so many.
So I would like to just say thank you for your kind words about my music. My best—George Stone (geostone@att.net)
amazing…..
it definitely delighted me ten years ago, i did’t have a music collection save 15 odd mp3′s…canyon was always in the playlist…it honours me posting just hours after the original composer…i simply loved that tune…woke up this morning and there it was>>hey is canyon on google???…and found Jakes’ … beautiful instrumental work…it gave me goosebumps…listened well…took the time to appreciate…and sped off looking for the original .mid track…i found it one link up on davesway. and it gave me super goosebumps…seems that has more effect for me…the chunkier sound does it…for recreational gaming i still play pokemon rby on gameboy…(vision fades)
1995/96, at 13/14 years old, my life was defined by the music I listened to and the TV I watched. Along with “The X Files”, “Due South”, Nirvana”, “Alanis Morrisette” and a host of other 90s era classics, “Canyon.mid” was something that I could listen to again and again. Mr George Stone, you are a genius! What happened to the days where music was inspirational?
I searched the web for a copy of canyon.mid to be posted on my blog. I wonder why they stopped including it since WIN XP. Luckily I came to your site and discovered the best sequence of canyon.mid I’ve ever heard. Thanks!
good piece of music, really! i put it in my morning wake-up program.
Wow.
I remember when I was REALLY young, finding the original canyon.mid on a school computer one day. The file’s icon was music notes, so obviously I opened it and listening to it immediately became my favorite thing to do on a computer. I had probably hunkered down next to that beige IBM box, straining to hear the amazing sounds being emitted from the machine over the noise of my naive classmates every day for years. I probably listened to the piece a couple hundred times by the time win98 came out and schools figured out how to limit access to the C: drive, and I was cut off from my daily Trip[s] Through the Grand Canyon.
A LONG time passed (cerca nine years) and I lived without ever hearing canyon.mid even _once_. I had forgotten the filename of the piece, and could not recall it, even as I sang the entire work to myself, harmonies, bridges and all. Now, about a month ago, I stumble across a program called MAMplayer, which creates visualizations to MIDI files. Soon after I inadVIRTantly am searching for VG musics, and find VGMix.com. Virt is obviously quickly found and I immediately love his music. After a quick search, I find Kwakfest, and Virt’s profile on vimeo.com, where I am intrigued by the title: “Nugget is a Very Thirsty Puppy.” I’m blown away to hear nothing but the most awesome version of canyon.mid ever. I can’t help but marvel at how things have come full circle; and even more so at how the composer himself found this page!
I must thank you, Jake, this arrangement is fantastic, and I will be hunkering down by my computer speakers (or headbanging to my iPod) for many years to come. You’ve made one musician very happy.
~Taylor S.
This is awsome! look forward to more thanks!
@George Stone: Canyon.mid is great and you should achieve more official recognition on that composition! Thank you, Mr. Stone.
I cannot begin to explain how happy I am to find this online and see that so many people enjoy this great song. I believe I was about 11 years old when I first listened to the midi version on Windows 95. I distinctly remember playing it time and time again until Windows XP came along. I was very disappointed when I discovered that the midi file was missing from this version of Windows. I like the new rendition of Canyon.mid very much. I’m going to be copying it to a CD-R immediately, and it will be copied to my ipod as well. Many thanks to George Stone for creating this inspirational and memorable piece.
First came over this in Win98. (For some reason my Win95 had only one MIDI file (Pinball.mid))
I liked the MIDIs a lot – more than the WMAs included in later Windows. Like many others, CANYON.MID is among my top favs!
I hope to see more midis included in later versions instead of WMAs from an existing album. One evidence to show how people get lazier!
I was blown away many years back by Canyon & Passport and was searching thro XP for them, and thats how I got to this site…long story short, are there any Mid or Wav files that can be used on a non-commercial site without trampleing on someones copyright???
Wow!!! Thank you so much! I’m back in 1994…I should get Yamaha OPL3 FM
again!!! This is awesome!
George Stone, Thank you!!!
Wow, great rendition!
I actually didn’t recognize Canyon.mid by name (I was redirected here from a Wiki article about Brian Eno’s Windows 95 opening jingle, of all things!), but after about 5 seconds, I completely remembered this track from way back in the day and was laughing my ass off (in a good way that is). Wow, this rendition (and the original midi) were just so carefree and listening to it brings back memories of less complicated times. Thanks again!
What can I say; an amazing song and your cover of it kicks ass! Can you post it up as a FLAC file by any chance?
All the best
And George, thankyou! :)
I remember in the mid 90s on our first pc, discovering this track along with passport. the sound cards back then, on cheapo machines, made these sounds way different than the versions most people are aware of, and sounded way cooler. items like this, along with many others,helped shape my life and define who i am. I have a love for what I, and many others who have similar feelings about life, call ‘box’ music (simple yet obviously magical keyboard music, as oppossed to flashy,over produced, underthought ‘bubble’ music) of any genre, although i sadly cannot play my 3 keyboards well at all
YES YES YES
This is the legendary 3rd song that played in Chip’s Challenge.
YOU ARE A GOD AMONG MEN.
WOW!! Just loaded Win 3.1 inside DOSBox and saw CANYON.MID (ah memories of the Program Manager)
Thanks for the MP3 so I can load it onto my iPhone!!!
Ha, I remember this.
First heard it when I finally got a Win95 comp in 2002. I’ve always preferred Passport myself, but this one was pretty nice as well.
…Then I bumped into Zelda Classic and smirked when I found this MIDI occasionally, though my collection grew a ton since then.
Very nice remix, sounds very much like the original.
It was the summer of 1998. I was eight years old, and my dad just bought our first computer, an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95. (Still works like a charm. XD) And I remember one of my first memories of that computer was opening up Voyetra Audiostation, and playing the midi player, and hearing Canyon.mid and Passport.mid for the first time. Wow… It feels like just yesterday. LOL This is such a catchy tune, now and then. I’ve listened to it a lot in the past 11 years. I must say, this is a VERY impressive rendition. I really like it!
Wow… George Stone posted? Epic! For those of you who don’t know about the company, Passport; not only where they a major force in the world of midi music in PCs, but they were also a driving force in the music notation software industry. Something that I REALLY appreciate, having a major in Music Composition. lol I remember when I was 8, my grandmother bought Music Time Deluxe, by Passport, for me to use. I use Sibelius now, but I will never forget just playing around and having fun making music with Music Time as a kid. So, thank you George Stone and the rest of the Passport team! :D
Now that I totally feel like a geek, I’ll just conclude by saying… Canyon.mid is EPIC!
:D
I remember it all to well, 7 years old on an old IBM box playing this song over and over again in the early/mid 90s. Suddenly I remembered it, and all I remembered was the letters CANYON.MID. Thank you George Stone for this work of art!
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Dang, grats! :D
I’ve known and loved this arrangement since it came out, I just went to link it to a forum where people are talking about related things, and noticed the composer’s comment. That is, indeed, more than a little bit awesome (and yes, I, like everyone else, had never actually thought about who composed it. I guess that’s what happens when you work at a place like Microsoft :p).
Wow, I remember this from my dad’s old Windows 2000 laptop. Too bad it crashed and was never able to boot up again. By the way, I can’t download this.
@Joseph
This reply’s 4 months late, but…
The MID and MP3 files are just hosted as normal in this server. You should be able to get this simply by using the “Save Link/Content/Target As” command by bringing up the link’s context menu (right click [PC] / control click [Mac]).
Just to point out, Canyon.mid was never in Windows ME, just in Windows 3.0 MME, 3.1x, NT 3.1x/4, 9x (not ME), and 2000.
By the way, this is a great arrangement! Congrats–you should do Passport.mid too!
i played the original SimCity in the 90′s and until now i still play the latest version of SimCity”";
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Wow, why am I imagining this as the theme tune for some technology news program like TechTV might have had? The end credits version would, of course, start at like 1:25 when the guitar kicks in and go from there.
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SimCity is the best, so damn addicting game. i used to play the original version when i was just a kid,.~
Nice solo, Virt. Much belated kudos to Mr Stone for his musical gift to the world.
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