/vr/ - Retro Games

Here you go anon. I put Midi Power 1-6 folders there because why not
https://files.catbox.moe/e9y8jc.zip

Pretty cool website for listening to game midis with different Soundfonts: https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js/browse

AnotherXG seems to be a rather nice alternative to SC-88, but some of the other alternatives create quite interesting mellow tunes out of these songs. Nokia 30 was surprisingly great.

You can download midi-files from there by checking which resources the page loads from the web. A bit cumbersome for whole folders but doable.

>>6511435
Contains mallware

>>6509939
Still can't believe you sick fucks listen to MIDI, what's wrong with you? The people who write midi don't even do that.

>>6511773
Not only do I listen to them, I write music in that format and I collect sound modules and keyboards.

btw >>>/v/

>>6511785
>I write music in that format
nigger what? it's hardly a format, no one would say 'yes I write music for grand staff' because it sounds so silly and redundant. What you're doing when you listen to MIDI is effectively listening to a player piano for pleasure, which would unironically be far more interesting than listening to midi or collecting keyboard controllers.

>>6511801
We can talk when you've learned to express yourself in a more civilized way.

>>6511803
>I'm not going to reply to you anymore anon!
You just did you spacker

>>6511435
This is awesome thanks anon.
>>6511754
It's literally just MIDIs and TXT files.

>>6511874
do you maniacs even do anything fun with the midi? Like play it with your own software instruments/make your own patches?

>>6511773
getting filtered: the post

>>6511884
your 'hobby' is embarrassing and NOT RETRO

>>6511876
I can, sure. I often import them into the DAW I use and play around with patches if I feel so inclined. Just listening in VLC right now though, it's got a half-way decent softsynth built in.

>>6511887
Well alright anon, I can respect that since it's how I taught myself patch design/sound design and how to mix larger ensembles, but I just can't get over the functional nature of midi enough to get down with enjoying it in and of itself.

>>6511892
I'm a writer and I couldn't do it without MIDI —I mean if you're doing anything that's not just straight audio recording in current year, it's just MIDI underneath. I love the simplicity of the format, it's remarkable that it was so-well designed in the 80s that it's still being used virtually unchanged today.

>>6511887
I take it back, VLC's MIDI playback is fucking trash. Need to find a better solution for bog-standard MIDI playback.

>>6511908
Right but writing MIDI to me is a purely functional aspect of modern recording, hell, I tend to bounce it to audio once I have the software instrument set up. It's strange to me that someone would listen to just the MIDI for pleasure, I suppose.

>>6509939
Chrome won't let me download this.

>>6511435
Can you tell me what Midi Power 2 contains? It has no readme.

I didn't even know those came with the actual midi files. Do they sound better with the sound canvas vst?

>>6512092
*shrug*

All I can say is that they contain a lot of SC-88-specific sysex commands.

>>6511918
pic related
Real hardware or bust.

>>6512123
I could use my vintage Mac I suppose —QuickTime Musical Instruments is what I grew up hearing for MIDI. Not as cool as a real soundcard though.

>>6511754
>>6511938
I got the same problem actually when I tried to check if the download works on Chrome. Worked fine on Safari. Maybe Chrome thinks that .mid files are some sort of executables? I don't know. There's also one .doc file.

>>6512069
You can actually find the contents in the Chip player link I posted above. The disks 1 to 6 contain .mid files from the following games, respectively: Snatcher and Gradius 2, Salamander and Twinbee Yahoo!, Policenauts, Tokimeki Memorial, Salamander 2, Dracula X.

>>6511804
Not OP but you're a fucking lame ass dork.

>>6512274
How many several hundreds of pounds do you weigh anon?

>>6511876
Well midi can be quite easily converted into music notation and then you can play songs with an actual instrument. Other parts can be converted to backing tracks if I feel like I might record myself playing something. Also sometimes just fooling around is nice too, like >>6511887 wrote

>>6512148
For me it's the OPL3 with the default Windows sound set. Yes it sounds like shit compared to just about any sampler/soundfont but it's what I grew up on and has that unmistakable retro sound.

>>6513740
Based beyond belief. Canyon.mid + SB16 = heaven

>>6511773
Because it's the industry standard for sequencing music?!