G’Day Catherine

Due to copyright issues I had to take down the download links on this site.

The best solution seems to be MyMIDI Worship Resources:
https://mymidi.audio/

They give you a free MIDI player and soundfonts that sound quite good and you can very cheaply buy MIDI tracks. They have done the hard work to make it cheap and legal – the files were made for nothing by volunteers and the songwriters get paid. They have files of the common songs played in Catholic churches.

It will run fine on ancient laptops -the sort people throw away. The best thing is that you can edit the instruments, tempo and key and save the changes to a song list for each service.

I looked at other options here:
https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=7239

Personally I think that if a parish owns copies of the songbooks they should be entitled to get backings without worrying about copyright since the only difference is a machine plays the music rather than a musician but pastoral considerations are trumped by copyright these days.

You could e-mail me at geoff@sixmaddens.org if you have a specific need.

Best of luck

Geoff