- General midi player windows Patch#
- General midi player windows software#
- General midi player windows windows#
I was really into computer-generated music a while back (actually I kinda still am, but I'm too busy most of the time). Basically the problem with using MIDI for distribution is that it's limited to the real-time synthesis capability of the target platform, which is often uninspiring.
General midi player windows software#
Software exists that allows you to notate music and have the computer play it via MIDI, or export a MIDI file. Or perhaps one might use an instrument other than a keyboard to get the required data without an inordinate amount of messing around for instance, MIDI guitars are a thing. With MIDI, you can generally just record it with a keyboard, but sometimes it requires extra editing to get the performance you want (the advantage is that you can easily just tweak stuff, fix wrong notes, adjust timing, etc.).
General midi player windows windows#
If you really want to, you can just record the Windows synth playing a MIDI file and compress it as an MP3 - I'm not at all sure nobody has done this, and I do know for a fact that at least one version of TIE Fighter had some CD audio that was just the original MIDI soundtrack recorded through an AWE card. It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as the result sounds the way you want it to. Or do the whole thing live through a stereo mic and don't even bother processing it. You can add hardware or software effects to individual components, or bunches of components, or the whole mix. Or you can use an old-school mixing desk and magnetic tape, and just digitize the master. You can arrange things manually in an audio editor or a DAW software, or you can trigger and shape things with MIDI, or you can use proprietary automation and sequencing features in the software you're using. You can use microphones, or hardware or software synthesizers of any description, or samples recorded by someone else.
I should have said compose, because I have no idea how you'd actually make a song with an MP3.Īn MP3 (or any other audio format with PCM output) is just a recording. I'm not sure but i wouldn't be surprised if windows and most old midi to audio cards simply doesn't listen to the bulk of the CC range.ĩ3143 wrote:MP3 files are even easier to make While some synths and samplers may adhere to a loose standard, it's a bit of a wild west case. They have a sample rate and sample depth which sometimes (rarely) restricts you, but a competent synth can work around that.The crux is, CC:s are designed rather open ended so synths can use them for whatever the engineers want them to. some synths would let you upload new firmware via SysEx messages, potentially working as a jailbreak. EDIT: oops, the stuff marked in red is not CC, but SysEx, which is designed do do just about anything.
General midi player windows Patch#
With these you can program just about any parameter in your synth including but not limited to patch parameters, internal fx (not just echo/reverb but any imaginable effect), and whole bank and RAM rewrites (for example including patches, samples, waveforms, depending on the synth). This is done through CC (control change) messages. You can get very sophisticated with MIDI. But you can't do anything outside the specifications so I guess it's mostly only good for music and simple sound effects. Yes I think midi has commands for effects like echo and reverb and also things like sustain pedals on midi keyboards. (That old computer has a nice sound card.) I suppose one could do the TIE Fighter dynamic music thing with MP3 or OGG snippets, since a modern computer should have no trouble with overlapping playback, but to my knowledge nobody has. Several years back, I slung together a sound bank and associated sound card settings specifically to sound good playing TIE Fighter music - I ran a couple instances of a simple reverb on the sound card's DSP so as to save CPU cycles for DOSBox, and routed the music through the reverb and the sound effects through a dry channel. I guess they just haven't really cared for a while, since nothing uses GM any more. In addition, GM is a bit tricky to get right because all the instruments have to work together in all possible situations, but I suppose that's hardly an excuse for a bad-sounding knockoff of a good-sounding GM synth. MP3 files are even easier to make, small enough that it doesn't matter to a modern PC, and sound even better.
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