[mikelzapi3]

isnt midi crap?

You are referring to the crapy sound of normal samplers, that we usually have in our computers, they read notes and play, let's say, trumpet, but not very realistically.
However, if you have a MIDI, actually you have a lot of tracks of notes, one track per instrument. so you can use them in a good software like Cubase to create the music. I played long time ago with drums in Cubase usin Native Instruments Battery, and it was amazing, the sound is like a real drum, and you've got a track from each tom, snare, kick... so you can mixed them like you want, adjusting the volume, sound and pan of every part of the drum set.

The only drawback of this type of music is that you need to create every track tablature or drum pattern, which is very hard and exhausting. So if you can "read" the notes from a mp3, it's more fun, but i 've never done that way (I don't know if those softwares are accurate enough).

The easyest way IMO is to search the MIDI file of the song that you want to experiment with on the net