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Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

your website used to be cool if you got some sick midis to autoplay

what happened to midis

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generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
still used for sequencing, op

slowfreq
Dec 14, 2014

they're a very limited audio medium, today's technology has made much more possible than the midi format can offer us

however, midis are still used in old-school game making, such as mario 64 ROMhacks and custom DOOM wads

Principals Orifice
Aug 23, 2016

by Lowtax
they were put down peacefully

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC
Tbh you're a twat if you think websites are better without chalaheadchala.midi playing in the background. Just sayin'.

a dog from hell
Oct 18, 2009

by zen death robot
Music is dead.

Mankind sits at computer and awaits entropy.

Tyson Tomko
May 8, 2005

The Problem Solver.
I remember being in a few situations back in the day where canyon.mid was the only music available and it wasn't too shabby.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

A few months ago I ran across a thread from like 2003 from some old message board and it was a person trying to figure out what song they had in their head. There was no youtube so people really struggled to present their guesses, it was mostly links to midis. It was funny. Life used to be real hard.

slowfreq
Dec 14, 2014

there was this midi rendition of scary monsters and nice sprites i heard awhile back and woo nelly it had me laughing!

Lafarg
Jul 23, 2012

I have an old midi keyboard sitting in my closet. Do they still make those?

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

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2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

Tyson Tomko posted:

I remember being in a few situations back in the day where canyon.mid was the only music available and it wasn't too shabby.

poo poo compared to cosmocanyon.midi hth

a retard
Jan 7, 2013

by Lowtax

slowfreq posted:

they're a very limited audio medium, today's technology has made much more possible than the midi format can offer us

however, midis are still used in old-school game making, such as mario 64 ROMhacks and custom DOOM wads

also a lot of people listened midi because back then most people had 56k internet and you can't stream mp3s on that poo poo

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Sid Vicious posted:

they were put down peacefully

thanks Obama

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p4a1cJFC-U

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf47DQj_2Gg

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
gently caress your scrublord tier poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPpWInAiOg




e: I love that I can put doot into google and get this as the first hit.

Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Sep 4, 2016

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
canyon.mid

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

As with everything computer related, midi files were deemed too efficient for modern PCs and had to be replaced with something more complicated.

If you want to embed some sickass tunes on your homepage now you gotta use HTML5 audio and javascript, like https://galacticmilk.com/midi-js/MIDIPlayer.html

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
those link to the past midis were fuckin cool
i had one pc where midis were all beeps and boops and another pc where it was like an orchestra

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Everyone used to think OPL3 "adlib" midi sounded crap but that old Yamaha synth you used to find on soundblasters in the 90s is actually pretty cool and used in everything from arcade machines to game consoles (sega genesis)

You should check out adlib tracker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6IITanvS6Y&t=330s

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

All the cool kids back then had an external midi synth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLDSt-Jz_Q&t=134s

I miss those days, modern computers are boring as poo poo :smith:

Doctor Dogballs
Apr 1, 2007

driving the fuck truck from hand land to pound town without stopping at suction station


jesus i thought canyon was made for Chip's Challenge i did not know it was just part of windows!!!!!!!!

rezatahs
Jun 9, 2001

by Smythe

Karate Bastard posted:

gently caress your scrublord tier poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPpWInAiOg




e: I love that I can put doot into google and get this as the first hit.

:toot:

Captain Video
Apr 4, 2016

Karate Bastard posted:

gently caress your scrublord tier poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPpWInAiOg




e: I love that I can put doot into google and get this as the first hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30-53OUBb6E

You opened my ears to a world of pain.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
Dooooooting iiiiiiin my skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat
I gotta dump this here since I got into the doot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOZp0RWjdBI

Sonic Clang (some dude) made real bitchin live instrument covers of the original shareware doom soundtrack. You can really hear him riff out the soul from out of them old .mids. They sound just as good as them old .mids did illicitly pumping out through your dads busted rear end desktop speakers at minimum volume at half past cause for grounding time. Daaamn that's some good midi.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

midis sound completely different based on what soundfont your os/program is using and that is bullshit

AugmentedVision
Feb 17, 2011

by exmarx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwqnR327fk

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

error1 posted:

All the cool kids back then had an external midi synth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLDSt-Jz_Q&t=134s

I miss those days, modern computers are boring as poo poo :smith:
You can get an MT-32 emulator called Munt and it's really great for playing old Sierra games and stuff.

Junior Jr.
Oct 4, 2014

by sebmojo
Buglord
MIDIs are cool and funny too, I see potential in them. Also I'm legit trying to find a sound card mod so music sounds nice in my Dosbox games. Sound Blaster 16 isn't enough.

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe

Vargs posted:

midis sound completely different based on what soundfont your os/program is using and that is bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZXVqrSo7AA

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

error1 posted:

All the cool kids back then had an external midi synth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLDSt-Jz_Q&t=134s

I miss those days, modern computers are boring as poo poo :smith:
this is extremely cool and good, thanks for sharing

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Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy
You could do cool poo poo with MIDI, it was just hard.

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sega/genesis/GreenHillZone.mid
This version of a Sonic 1 song has clever poo poo like notes manually doubled and delayed to sound like a reverb effect. You almost don't notice how basic most of the sounds are because of the effective layering. Most versions sound like a tuba trying to gently caress an oboe inside of a badly tuned piano while a gated reverb snare drum watches from the corner and masturbates sitting on top of a mound of cheap electric bass guitars.

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