Demo of the Roland MT-90U MIDI Music Player 

That is the most British thing I've seen in my life.

Very "Brett Domino Trio" I thought ha ha.

Come on, someone sample this, it's asking for it to be done!

I think lyrics of "Don't wanna" from Electric Light Orchestra fit Techmoan quite well :D

It's on par with waiting all night to get lucky.

that sounds like a genuine blessing with some congregations, being able to shift the pitch. When a song comes out of a group, it comes out, accompaniment notwithstanding. Glad to know these things got good use like that

That is actually pretty genius. Nice use of the equipment. I guess any street performer should take similar advantages.

I run a pipe organ control system manufacturer. Our gear can communicate with MIDI (although it's not the system's native code). This means that a stand alone midi sequencer or computer with music software can be used to record all the organ data and play it back when there's no organist available. Again, the pitch and tempo can be altered at will, as can the stops that were originally used for the recording.

@@johnr6168 Like this? Rob Scallion playing MIDIs off his laptop via a MIDI controlled pipe organ. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SQHdFAm7g7E.html

Awesome story!

"…strap the drummer to a click track…”

External sound cards for PCs usually have phenomenal MIDI sound. The piano especially sounds like the real instrument. The synthwave scene has loads of tracks entirely made in MIDI exported to PCM, and they sound absolutely out of this world.

@@elimalinsky7069 well, you could easily get another soundfont to sound awesome. Even some sound cards (Sound Blaster Live!) have option to set soundfont

MIDI definately had its uses.. It was a very small file that could be paired with games on the 5.25" floppies, and still turn out a full fledged song, albiet with sacrifices made. Those limitations, though, were the natural side effect of having a table of instruments that were generated as the MIDI instructions called for them. The Yamaha OPL3 Synthesizer chip was well know for its amazing reproduction of music (at least, when I became aware of it), and it was the best I have heard for playing the "Where in Americas Past is Carmen Sandiego". Later on, the Soundblaster Audigy's had a "Sound Font" which replaced the generated sounds, and used pre-sampled instruments to get even more lifelike. Still, there was the characteristic flatness to the tonality of the music, since there was no organic modulation to the tone as musicians would normal give it. The tempo feels rigid because it's as strict as the computer clock running it. It feels robotic.. because it's basically a robotic band playing sheet music. it's the slight pause, the error in tonality, the resonance of a guitar, which give real music its heart.

@@pouncytaur I use it on a regular basis within Logic Pro X. Invaluable!

w h a t ‘ s a m i d i j o e l ?

@@Pierfy Unexpected reference, but I like it.

NOOO KRAMER

Idk but this comment made me lose my shit

@@Pierfy i ' l l s h o w y o u !

Martijn Valk I should not have read the comments before watching the video, I wouldn’t have minded a rickroll by Mat 😂

So i'm not the only one getting this feeling ^^

We got RickRolanded?

Ik ben ook ge-rick-rolled 😮

@@jticklemaker1265 its more than a feeling ,it took my breath away lol

Indeed. Try a decent MIDI file on one of Roland's high-end synths and it's a whole different story.

Absolutely. I mean midi is still at the core of most AWS. Read the song in extract the line you want, combine with you own composition, change the instrument assigned to it to whatever you want and there you go. Makes it easy to turn eg. Monty norman's classical Bond Theme into a death metal version. It's probably the most important music format in existence, albeit not for playing.

And this is why the midi standard has lasted for almost 30 years without the need for any substantial changes. It's such a ubiquitous tool that just about any commercial music is probably using it in some form even just for controlling the mix.

@@lowdefal6306 Wasn't it created and standardized in the early 80s, so almost 40 years ago, or am I wrong ?

@@frankschneider6156 Indeed, I can't count.

He might have been a DJ at some point.

That karaoke was top of the line.

What are you talking about? That was the most thrilling and finest performance of Walking on Sunshine I ever experienced. His enthusiasm knock me right off my feet and I really saw him dancing in the sunshine. I won't wonder if Katrina call him to join the next Reuninon Tour ...

'He's your Uncle Techmoan and he welcomes you to Tommy's Holiday Camp'

@@Umweltfreundlich07 You, my good Sir or Madam, has just won today's internet! :D

Why? Just, why?

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I just got rickrolled in the techmoan comment section.

No one is safe!!! Even from Techmoan!!!

tylerwarren Welcome to the club! You’re set for most retro MS-DOS gaming experiences with those though! :D

Sharp x68000 owner maybe??

A Midiction, if you will...

Get an MT-90s! I just got one a few months ago and I use it every day. It's amazing to be able to play DOS game MIDI tracks on real hardware, from a real floppy, without having to fire up my 486.

The bit where he talks about people hating MIDI... Those people obviously have no understanding that MIDI is kind of the backbone of *ALL* modern music production

Best part of the whole video

It was so good I think he was risking a copyright strike.

Reminds of me of when I sang Common People at a karaoke bar in Brighton about 15 years ago, it emptied the entire bar :D It was worse than Matt :p

I was speechless!!!

I haven't heard that lyrical a musical performance since the Flying Lizards version of "Money".

🤣🤣🤣

Does he have an official BBS for downloading ? I must still have an acoustic coupler for my C64 here somewhere.

I need it on 7” vinyl with his rendition of Get Lucky on the B-side.

I only buy mine on the highest grade wax cylinder

Flourish.mid ftw

A Onestop fan myself

cssamp1 gang

passport.mid was always the superior file.

I was a bit disappointed to hear it over an MT32 emulator. Seems the instruments are all wrong, which I guess is to be expected.

YAY FINLAND!

Absolutely! Techmoan is the best! 😉 💜 🍀 👻 🎶

had a touch of Phoenix Nights Jerry the Berry there ;-)

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time...

I was racking my brain as to what the karaoke skit reminded me of, it was Brett Domino, cheers

Can we make a thread just of people sharing MIDI packs?

archive.org/details/sound_canvas_midi_collection. Some really nice gems in here, such as the various MIDIs written by Hiroyuki Oshima, and a rather genuine cover of the Silver Surfer theme. Be aware that although some artists made GM versions of their MIDIs available , many didn't, so to play most of these properly, you'll need either an SC-88Pro or later, or Sound Canvas VA set to the SC-88Pro map, though there are a decent number of MIDIs written for the SC-8820 and 50 in the collection.

Nice

Nice

All that marketing suddenly went quiet. I think the bosses in Singapore found out what the song was about!

Do you have link to that file or to an recording of that? I would be very interested in hearing that!

@@Tynamiitti Same, I've got an itch to play that on my SB32 now, not sure if 8MB would do though?

Big fan of the AWE card here. Yeah, you can have vocals, but it has to be uploaded to the card first using the provided soundfont, which wasn’t straightforward. I guess that’s what kept the song “No Surprise” under the radar (seriously).

Yes I still have the xfi sound blaster platinum with all the software lol

thats cool, our school didnt have anything this fancy but it looks incredibly useful for learning

Never Gonna Give you up. Never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and hurt you. Never gonna make you cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

I'm not even mad

nevergonna.mid

we're no strangers to rick rolls

Sadly that wasn't even close to the worst karaoke I've ever witnessed LOL :)

I was personally expecting "we will rock you" or something from the Spice Girls.

Only way it would have been better was if he'd pulled the Tequila stunt.

Goteeeeem

oh my god no he pulled apart something that is his own

Did someone say "Protracker"? (or the many varients of composition software available for the Amiga). :)

MOD isn't MIDI though

MOD files are more capable than MIDI, you can pack any sample in MOD file, and not depend on preinstalled soundfont, like MIDI.

@thewestwardsky Best I can find is to run the DigiRoller player through an Amiga emulator. www.digibooster.de/en/download.php

@@iscander_s Vs MOD, yeah MIDI is a lot more limited. The normal MIDI format is limited to predefined instruments, a limited range of options (eg: volume, pan, instrument, ...); and other than that is basically just turning notes on and off and similar. Though, it stores music in a reasonably compact form (songs are typically a few kB), and it is possible to get MIDI playback to work on fairly limited hardware (such as an MSP430 or AVR8 microcontroller), ...

Unfortunately, according to current copyright law, doing without Content ID might mean that this is flat-out illegal. I think fair use may only apply if you're using a fragment of the work for critical analysis of the work you're excerpting... not using it to demonstrate something else. Here's Tom Scott's "RU-vid's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is.": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Jwo5qc78QU.html

@@ssokolow Regardless, copyright's sole purpose is to protect artists from having the value of their works reduced by improper distribution of their content. Nobody is going to decide against buying a song simply because they can come to this video and hear ten seconds of it instead, but that's the BS that is happening.

@@KurtRichterCISSP If the difference between the intent of copyright and the letter of modern copyright mattered, creative works other than books and maps would be ineligible for copyright protection (When the U.S. founding fathers reinvented what was formerly a "you print only what we want and we'll arrest anyone else who prints anything" pact between the British government and the printing guilds, the intent was to enrich the public domain and incentivize "science and the useful arts"), copyright would be opt-in (no copyright protection unless you register your creation with the copyright office), and it would last 14 years with the option to renew it once for an additional 14 years of protection. Copyright protection for music *at all* is the result of greedy people incrementally moving the goalposts over the last two centuries and you can see that in how things like recipes, fashion designs, and jokes are still ineligible for copyright protection. (That's why big-name fashion designers prominently work their trademarked logo into their designs.) In fact, copyright is running directly counter to its original purpose, given how it's been on the order of a century since anything entered the public domain without either someone letting their copyright expire, intentionally given up their copyright prematurely (eg. CC0), or making a mistake in navigating the various forms copyright law took prior to the mid 70s (eg. Night of the Living Dead entered the public domain when the distributor failed to satisfy the requirement that intentional, public distribution include a copyright notice to maintain copyright status in the 60s).

An interesting thing about Content Match was noticed a few days ago with the recent Nintendo software leak. It seems the N64 SDK had a bunch of sample .MID files, so someone made a RU-vid video of playing them all. The video got blocked. It turns out that Hotel California is one of the few songs that is set to block the entire video if it is detected, and the MIDI playback was sufficient to flag it. The more you know!

@@KairuHakubi Tom Scott did a 42 minute video explaining why my perspective is correct in much more detail than I can: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Jwo5qc78QU.html Regarding the "face your accuser in a fair trial" part, the gist of it is that, since RU-vid is a private business and hasn't been declared any sort of public utility, they have a right to say in their terms of service that you don't get to upload anything to RU-vid until *after* you've agreed to whatever terms they set for ContentID. It's like those binding arbitration clauses a lot of American businesses use to force employees and customers to give up the ability to start or join class action lawsuits if they want the job/service. ...and it came about because record companies felt it was easier and more productive to sue RU-vid for your their role in sharing your content than to go after you. From the law's perspective, you're not entitled to use RU-vid, so, unless there's a law on the books like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 saying otherwise, they can set whatever terms they want for their product or service and you can go to a competitor if you don't like it. (Of course, if the U.S. had a functioning system of laws, antitrust law would have kicked in long ago. The Google/Alphabet/whatever family of companies reached "what we say goes and anyone who disagrees gets left behind" levels of power long ago.) One of the articles on the 2019 European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market goes even farther, mandating that countries have to update their laws to force companies to take measures to ensure that, once something is taken down, it stays down... which basically means more Fair Use-ignoring automation at the scale companies like RU-vid operate at.

dannyeliot - I “disa gree”

A HAHAHHA

Is it weird that I like it?

@@alifnajwan6834 Live and let live. Whatever floats your boat.

Lol, nearly everyone I know enjoys singing and singing together 🙂

The Bigger Byte In the 2000s we actually used MIDI files as ringtones. Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones did support them. I made a few myself. Here, have a go at these: www.dropbox.com/sh/wv3ifnj7dbd0pua/AACwf6wk6VUlMQAUc7Pm55g9a?dl=0

even if you change the instrument sounds that triggers content match its down to notes and timing

I got some content matched on a video playing a MIDI file on a player I made ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g_kRqCSRIko.html But it identified it as a cover, not the actual recording so I can still monetize my video but a part of the earned money will go to the right holders.

@@LenweSaralonde lucky. Some cover artists are so good that they content match performances instead of the songwriter match.

Right?

Alexandre Melo - Yes, but they have to remain 2 metres apart due to social distancing rules.

@@AtheistOrphan what is that in puppet meters?

@@rucker69 no, meters are the same between. It's about 18 puppet feet, though, give or take a few puppet inches.

Well, I guess we have to force him to either bring the puppets back or do a 4-hr karaoke session of Hi-NG and Hardrock songs. I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy both equally.

I had the same thought.

I've enjoyed this for about 15 years now. One caveat: terrible selection of non-guitar music (specifically I sometimes look for electronic music like Aphex Twin or Orbital). But then the word guitar is in both the program name and the site name so what do you expect?

And I use decently made midi files from game music to convert to sheet music for instrument use. Just a shame so many game midi files are badly auto converted from their native format and essentially unusable.

I use MIDI as a protocol almost every time I make music, as I have a MIDI keyboard and two synthesizers that connect over USB or DIN MIDI and a synthesizer that can use MIDI over serial or DIN MIDI (the latter I use DIN MIDI and the former I use USB). It is insanely useful for my uses.

@@pseudomemes5267 hahahaha, good one 🤣

The british voice make it soooo much better

watch Brett Domino lol

New channel idea: "Techmoan does Morrissey covers of 80s One-Hit Wonders"

"Sound of MIDI" is an oxymoron.

@@Schattengewaechs99 Ok.

I'm a bit bummed that he didn't do "The Girl From Ipanema" just to troll the MIDI Music haters out there, honestly.

I guess he also revived Karaoke everywhere outside of Japan.

That's what X-factor is for?

Based on how it sounded in this video, the vocals will either sound like chipmunks when set too high or a serial killer being interviewed on TV

Have you seen the Evan Duffy cover? That could be played on here.

whoa

Well you can do this on any computer (incl smart phone) no matter how cheap or old, but dong this on dedicated hardware is not only more comfortable, but of cause also way cooler.

Yeah, it's also perfect for music teachers, with most popular songs available in MIDI you instantly have a backing track for the pupils song of choice.

That is who I assume this was aimed at, plus teachers. Once upon a time there were discs (vinyl, or even shellac!) called "Mix Minus" for soloists to practice with. They had a full piece minus the solo instrument or voice. My Dad had some, back in the 60s and 70s. I can't remember if they ever got to cassette, but this would be so much easier to work with. I had no idea that such a thing as a stand alone Midi player existed. Matt has all the best toys for audio!

My choir teacher did just this in the 90's until he retired. He recorded tapes for us to use in practice. One side was just the solo or group part and metronome, the other side was accompaniment and all other parts. Get familiar with your part, then figure out how it works with the rest of the choir.

@@sadiqmohamed681 Yeah i remember reading about those "Music minus One" records; there were many different editions of the same song, for instance minus drums, minus piano, minus sax, and so on. This device is so much more verstaile of course. Thanks for reminding me of those records. :)