Come on, dude, you can't cry while listening to this... _skips to that part_ Oh damn you are right. It seems depressing for some odd reason. Feels weird man.
I think, in some ways, it's epic. It goes through all these different styles, using so many different instruments. I had to think carefully to decide which instruments I wanted to film.
1:05-1:33 Thug: 'ey. You got some dough for me? Guy: uh.... no. thug: I'm gonna shoot 'cha! *Bang flag comes out of gun* *at **1:22**, they do a vaudeville dance with a tip of the hat at the end*
Oh my holy FREAKING GOD. I got my comp from my grandma and she's had it , well, I don't know how long. I found these MIDIs on here: Onestop, Town, Flourish, all of those. I had NO FREAKIN CLUE what they were and where they came from. I thought from the sound of it that MAYBE it was Final Fantasy, but how could that be on my comp? Well you, good sir, just put the puzzle pieces together. THANK YOU.
@usalt2: And "Clouds" came with Windows 95 because the startup screen was over a fluffy-white-clouds-with-blue-sky background, as well as those puffy clouds being one of the main desktop backgrounds. I'm not sure what the idea behind Passport was, but the full title of Canyon is "Trip Through the Grand Canyon". As for Town and Flourish? Who knows that the composer was thinking.
I don't think the vibe was destroyed. It transitions very nicely, in my opinion. The point of this whole song is to go through many different musical styles.
@leehsin001 I agree. He should get on that. On the other hand, there's a lot of work involved in modeling a new 3D instrument and programming it to correctly respond to specific MIDI data.
@kevinmacha: You know, I have a vauge memory of that test. I don't know where we would have heard the other two songs. Canon (the camera maker) included a MIDI with one of their devices once. Remember that?
Each keyboard represents a separate MIDI channel. If you make two channels for one piano part so that the left and right hands can be panned to the left and right ears, each hand will be on a different piano. In essence, channel = keyboard. Same thing goes for guitars and stuff. Monophonic instruments like trumpets and flutes will double up even if they're on the same channel if more than one note is sounded at once.
@dogman15 i think reverse cymbal would be somthing like a levitating cymbal shaking or an upside down cymbal and the stick would move away from it, and i think bird tweet would be something like a bird moving its mouth when it makes aound or 12 bird species and each sings a different key.
@psychoclown420: As far as I know, it's not "from" anything. This is an original song by David Yackley that was included in all copies of Windows XP and Vista, and perhaps also Windows Me or 2000.
@leehsin001: Yeah, I kinda figured that. Putting them in involves creating new models/animations for the instruments and coding how they'll respond to a given MIDI voice.
I recorded the program in action with CamStudio, or perhaps some other program, and then I combined the .AVI file with an MP3 from Audacity in Windows Movie Maker. Then I uploaded the .WMV file to RU-vid.
I'm not sure whether that's Spanish or French, but this program is MIDIjam, and I used CamStudio and Audacity to record it. Does that answer your question, "What program do you utilize?"
@shortwavesam: MIDIjam does that either automatically, or by way of the number buttons on your keyboard. Why not download it (it's free) and try it for yourself? It's pretty fun!
@angel20434: The top of the MIDIjam download/info page has Scott's bowling clipart-like pictures. He's developed a bowling game for the PC in the past.
@angel20434: CamStudio (and other programs like it, like HyperCam) record any and (almost) all images on your computer screen. This works for either a segment of the screen or the entire screen. You can also record audio at the same time, but I find adding it in later easier.
@leehsin001: Nope, not yet! Scott says it (and other instruments like the banjo and woodwind instruemnts) will be in a future release. This is version 1.12.
@MegaMG42: If the MIDI isn't already on your computer, find it online somewhere, and then use NEMIDi to solo just the guitar track(s). Run that through another program to figure out what the notes are. That's the best advice I can offer.
You'd be surprised how well MIDI can imitate an orchestra with the right samples. Just listen to the work that Steffan Andrews did on songs like "At the Gala", "Find a Pet", and "This Day Aria". Supposedly, Mike Morasky's music in Team Fortress 2 is MIDI-based, too. I can't confirm that; it might be real instruments at times.
That's either an opinion or an attempt at trolling. Hundreds, if not thousands based on views, of other people enjoy this song, so you appear to be in the minority. You're welcome to express that opinion, though. I, for one, like this song. It goes through many different styles to demonstrate the capabilities of MIDI, and it shows the compositional abilities of David Yackley.
@MajorSilvaa: Download the program yourself and run it at 1024x768 instead of viewing a low-res 640x480 video degraded by CamStudio. The graphics are great considering that Scott Haag created it all himself, including modeling the instruments and programming them to respond to MIDI instructions. Sure, the graphics aren't as good as Animusic, but these instruments have to be generic and universal to play any MIDI file AND run on a personal computer. (Animusic is specific and high-end.)
@angel20434: I highly doubt that web searches on Google or Bing or internal Wikipedia searches would yield no results for "MIDIjam" or "MIDI jam" or variants. I'm not sure what version of CamStudio I have off-hand.
@angel20434: This was a month ago. Things change a lot. Making one of these videos takes 20 minutes, tops. (Bonus point if you get the movie I just referenced.)
@leehsin001: You already suggested the floor filling with an inch of water for seashore, but what about those other two? A bird sitting on top of the tom-toms? And I have no idea what a reverse cymbal would look like.
@Miles75HD: I'm not even sure if that's an accurate reflection of a computer's actual frames-per-second output. MIDIjam runs on any computer, and it gives you a set amount of configuaration settings: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. I usually run at 1024, except when I'm recording, when I run it at 640. You get a bit depth of 16 or 32, and refresh rates ranging from 60 (what I use), 70, 72, 75, 85, 100 and 120. My guess is that the 'FPS' you see is MIDIjam-internal
In 2011, the word population was 6,973,738,433 - so nearly 7 billion. I think other people would agree with me that the transitions in this song, at least at the point you mention, were not abrupt.
i cant believe they didnt add seashore yet! i wonder what it would look like? i think itll look like this: the floor becomes water. i also cant wait for reverse cymbal and bird tweet
@allensingley: There's no official story, but the history I can gleam from circumstantial evidence leads me to believe that David Yackly created this MIDI during the creation of Windows Me, and Microsoft put it in the "[root]:\WINDOWS\Media" folder as a hidden bonus, or as a way for users to test their computer's ability to play MIDI files, if they had no other MIDI files to test with. I don't know. Maybe there's a more detailed story about this song somewhere else on the internet.
@angel20434: To upload a MIDIjam video, you must first have MIDIjam on your computer and working. Find a MIDI file of the song you want it to play. Use screen capture software like CamStudio to record what MIDIjam does, and (this is what I do) separately record the audio played through Windows Media Player into audio recording software like Audacity on a second computer. Put the CamStudio video clip and the WAV file together in Windows Movie Maker. Post to RU-vid.
I didn't create this song, so I'm not offended, but I just have to say your opinion is probably in the minority. I'm sorry you didn't like the ending. Go tell that to David Yackley, the composer.
