I stumbled across these whole browsing through a japanese youtube clone site, and I was simply shocked at how ... unbelievably insane these were. Never have I heard midis in such high quality and complexity, and the author puts in some "animation" for added entertainment.
He's created 5 of them so far, but I'll paste the 3 most intense ones here. The original site has higher sound quality than youtube, which is seriously a shame. Thus, I've manually downloaded the flv files and uploaded them to massmirror. They should eventually get uploaded here
edit*I didn't rename them to english filenames inside the rar file, so you might have to use manual extract getting the files out, and might have to rename the flies to english in order to play them in flvplayer, sorry about this. )
And here are the youtube links for you to watch/listen immidiately.
#2: Ultra-dense Mario Medley
#3: Kirby Medley
#4: Okkusennman (ie that Megaman song)
Hopefully he'll keep making more midi-animations; he's creating quite a stir with these it seems.
Btw you really do want to dl the pack I uploaded, b/c the sound quality is muchhh higher.
On November 13 2007 11:54 Empyrean wrote: Holy fucking shit.
That's amazing...and how did you stumble across them? They were uploaded yesterday!!
They started being uploaded originally at the japanese video site on October 31st. I was going to upload them to stage 6 b/c I was pissed at the low sound quality, but couldnt find a convenient flv to divx converter so I relented to uploading the flv's themselves (i'll UL to stage6 and replace the links if someone can recommend me a program)
On November 13 2007 11:55 p4fn2w wrote: Awesome midis. The megaman song reminded me of this
Would you happen to know what program he used to create the midis? I'm interested in making some.
haha I remember posting that very same video in the okkusennman thread at TL. The video you posted is mario paint, I have no idea what he's using in the videos in the op, I'll try to find out though.
Very cool. I've dabbled a little in midi before, but nothing this complex. What he did is probably created with a controller connected to a program like reason or cubase, maybe sonar. or, he placed all the notes himself with the mouse
Btw I just realized that although musically these might be less complex than the ones I posted originally, #1 and #5 are really fun in terms of the "animation" aspect, so here they are.
#1: Cheetahman (wtf?)
#5: FF4 Medley (apparently he was going for the "retro-game" feel with this, and was experimenting with colors and stuff. Said he spent too much time on this so he'll release it like this for now)
There is a program called Bandstand, which, when installed, weighs 3 Gigs (due to all the HQ samples), and plays any MIDI file in incredibly high quality sound.
Haji, could you maybe give the links to the actual MIDI files, I'd like to try them out in Bandstand. Thx.
Yeah, Bandstand has samples of professional musicians playing with many different attacks and styles on every single note of their instruments. As such, the sound it produces is phenomenal. I've heard the Bandstand output of full band music (for class), and the only ways you can really distinguish it from a real recording is:
1. intonation is too perfect 2. vertical alignment of sound is too accurate (although I hear it adds very small delays so that the sounds are just a bit offset to sound more real) 3. transitions and variations in tempo sound a little contrived 4. solos and such don't quite sound soloistic (timbre, intensity, vibrato, etc. details seem maybe not right)
But none of those things are knocks on the audio quality itself.
On November 13 2007 14:14 p4fn2w wrote: Can Bandstand create midi music too, or just play them?
By create do you mean the music notation (note entry) or the mixing/adding effects part? Afaik it just does the latter. I've never used it but I'm pretty sure what it just does is take MIDI input (which would give you the pitches and rhythms, dynamics, and I forget what else if any) and output a much larger audio file complete with all the fine tuning and using those better samples based on what you select (no doubt the output can be compressed to something like mp3). I mean, you can't have those samples and parameters in MIDI.
Or maybe somebody who actually knows what he's talking about wants to respond?
You've hit the nail with your response Myrmidon. I actually meant the former, if it can create the note entry. But I guess it can only do the latter and alter music not create it. Thanks for the response.
On November 13 2007 14:30 p4fn2w wrote: You've hit the nail with your response Myrmidon. I actually meant the former, if it can create the note entry. But I guess it can only do the latter and alter music not create it. Thanks for the response.
Yes, it is basically a player, altho with a lot of options. Like Myrmidon mentioned, it can even add variety to the sound in order to mimic a human performance, and the rate of which can be adjusted manually.
Also, you can use it to change the existing MIDI file in ways like adding more instruments, changing the existing ones, adding solo sequences, etc etc...
It's only drawback perhaps is that it will require at least a Gig of RAM to handle all those samples properly, so if you're short on RAM you better go download some now.
Its the animations inside the sequenser tracks that are really cool, but as for "midi" ther is one thing you have missunderstood as i see it.
Midi is not a particular type of sound, its merely a "language" that comunicates between your synthesizer and your soundcard, thus you can practically add any kind of sound from the synth to a midi tone.
So as a response to the topic starter, practically all music you hear on the radio wich has any kind of computer based sound in it is using midi, thus this would sound quality wise score pretty low, however im pretty sure that it was exactly these sounds the composer were after and therefore it doesnt matter.
To our great disappointment, the author announced that the Chrono Trigger one will be his last one of the midi-animation series. (chrono trigger has more than 90K views in less than 3 days lol)
I'll try to dl and ul the flv files when I get back to my room.
OMFG that is so sick making countermelodies that harmonically look like trees during the forest track, and the dragon tank/Chrono/Lucca on the bridge for the boss battle.
someone obviously played this on a midi keyboard and just filmed the midi entries rolling. The point of this thread was the actual animations in the sequenses Id much rather hear the guy who did this play it on a real church organ.
uhh, wasn't entire FF7 done with midi (at least my pc version is)? Way more impressive, also very good sample combinations used to form new sounds) although this is still a bit of work...
i was going to create a thread.. lucky i watched first... this was my first strategy game and the midi is awesome... hope more people post opening tittle
EPT
*I didn't rename them to english filenames inside the rar file, so you might have to use manual extract getting the files out, and might have to rename the flies to english in order to play them in flvplayer, sorry about this. )
I felt like closing all open windows and programs until I noticed it ^^![[image loading]](http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1192556816650mw9.jpg)
