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I was just trying to make a clever "the south will rise again" parody. But I see your point. Between Nintendo's Gamecube and gameboy, Sony's Playstation and PSP, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nokia's Ngage is there any room for another console?<br><br>And the "shadow the hedgehog" game disturbs me a bit too.<br><br>But we've digressed. This is supposed to be about MIDIs.
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<!--QuoteBegin-Bocaj Claw+May 18 2005, 01:24 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ May 18 2005, 01:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I was just trying to make a clever "the south will rise again" parody. But I see your point. Between Nintendo's Gamecube and gameboy, Sony's Playstation and PSP, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nokia's Ngage is there any room for another console?<br><br>And the "shadow the hedgehog" game disturbs me a bit too.<br><br>But we've digressed. This is supposed to be about MIDIs. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I'm not called Mr. Offtopic on the Team 17 Forums for nothing, y'know.<br><br>Um. Anyway, MIDIs. I've made a few myself. Mostly remakes of other tunes, but there are a few original compositions. I've posted a few of my favourite ones <a href='http://bootcamp.keenspace.com/other.html' target='_blank'>here</a>.
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It's a file format best used to play instrumental music, as it effectively models a score. Unlike other sound files, which contain the waveform used to produce sound (or compress it), the MIDI format merely says "play the trumpet over a dotted quarter note at a speed of 120". The MIDI synthesizer must then create a sound that matches the specification, by producing the sounds of a trumpet playing for 3/4ths of a second.
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Well, the big ones can get up to about 100Kb. But yes.<br><br>Another interesting file format is .MOD, which is sort of intermediate in size between MIDIs and big ol' .MP3s (and even bigger .WAVs). .MOD is like MIDI in that it encodes instructions rather than the actual sound, but the difference is that while MIDI has to rely on whatever instruments the computer on the receiving end posesses, .MOD carries its own instruments with it. This makes them larger than MIDIs (still typically less than a megabyte, though), but also more versatile. You typically need a separate player for them, though (I believe WinAmp can handle them, however).
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<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+May 18 2005, 08:29 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ May 18 2005, 08:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Unlike other sound files, which contain the waveform used to produce sound (or compress it), the MIDI format merely says "play the trumpet over a dotted quarter note at a speed of 120". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> In other words, MP3 is like a record single, and MIDI is like the cylinder in a music box. Only it's a very large and complicated music box. <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> <br><br>And I can't be reminded often enough to get that stupid storyboard done. It's coming, I swear! I can only goof off unproductively for so long in a three-month vacation.
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<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+May 19 2005, 07:42 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ May 19 2005, 07:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And I can't be reminded often enough to get that stupid storyboard done. It's coming, I swear! I can only goof off unproductively for so long in a three-month vacation. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Goofing off eh, that reminds me of a Podunk U strip.
<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+May 19 2005, 01:29 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ May 19 2005, 01:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> It's a file format best used to play instrumental music, as it effectively models a score. Unlike other sound files, which contain the waveform used to produce sound (or compress it), the MIDI format merely says "play the trumpet over a dotted quarter note at a speed of 120". The MIDI synthesizer must then create a sound that matches the specification, by producing the sounds of a trumpet playing for 3/4ths of a second. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> And this is both the format's strength and weakness. Strength for the obvious file size reasons and, in theory, it's perfect. Weakness because you can't predict exactly what's coming out, since different soundcards differ in quality of midi handling (and the 'poorer' ones may be what the thing's designed for so they sound off on a high quality soundcard for midi handling).<br><br>And to anyone who thinks that midi is poor fullstop has never listened to a midi via a yamaha (yes. I'm quite serious here. I know someone who used to have a soundcard where yamaha provided the midi handling. It was the person's first pc...).<br><br>Appropriate as a themetune, really, but would like to hear an original composition for an 'ozy and millie themetune'...<br><br>As for midi artists, the only high quality <i>original</i> midier I can think of off the top of my head would be... Ah, Burning Sheep Productions.
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