PoP mus

[fp]

[Gonna do the same as Norbert did - this one is a slightly bugged version - Read the third post for more information.]

I was working on this for class, but I decided to share it with y'all.

A PoP midi - or at least, how the original game made me feel in musical form - with Markers to signify what each part means.
4 and a half minutes of music - enjoy & lmk what you think.

[Norbert]

[Edit: Deprecated. New version in below posts.]

Spoiler: show

Midi File, run with your favorite Soundfont. I made it with my soundfont (TimGM6mb.sf2) in mind, though.

Attached MP3 renderings with 7 different SoundFonts. MD5s:
4feb1fc8544c30299e248f4466c4d6d0 ColomboGMGS2.sf2
af289497caf8c76d97fdc67ec8409f05 FluidR3_GM.sf2
b0051aef6ce5229d90b013121ac3a21a Orpheus_1.047e.sf2
520a1568f9508ddac640d0cd6b2028b3 RLNDGM.sf2
9910298f36840b6ad78e2ff758b870d6 SGM-V2.01.sf2
1f1ad87ae6f87033d9a591eca567d919 TimGM6mb.sf2 [yours]
e3ef5e20a72f0568f72e0d02577ff7bd wt_22khz.sf2

ColomboGMGS2.zip

(4.17 MiB) Downloaded 24 times

FluidR3_GM.zip

(4.17 MiB) Downloaded 21 times

Orpheus_1.047e.zip

(4.17 MiB) Downloaded 21 times

RLNDGM.zip

(4.11 MiB) Downloaded 19 times

SGM-V2.01.zip

(4.13 MiB) Downloaded 24 times

TimGM6mb.zip

[yours]

(4.17 MiB) Downloaded 24 times

wt_22khz.zip

(4.12 MiB) Downloaded 22 times

[Let me know] what you think.

Not bad.

By the way, VLC - or one of its back-ends - says that the "Running out of time!" portion may occasionally use a 250 BPM tempo that is apparently too fast.

Finally, if someone is curious how I encoded the MP3s - this was done on Linux:
The way I do it requires the installation of "vlc-plugin-fluidsynth".
Then, put SoundFonts in: /usr/share/sounds/sf2/
Next, in VLC choose Tools > Preferences: you have to show all settings; there, go to Input/Codecs > Audio codecs > FluidSynth > (browse)
Then run: $ vlc PoP.mid --no-video --sout '#transcode{acodec=fl32}:std{mux=wav,access=file,dst=output.wav}' -vvv
To encode output.wav to MP3: $ lame output.wav

[fp]

awesome - thanks for doin' those mp3s, they're quite good!

(unfortunately, i did find an error where most midi players, including the mp3s, will play the first note before setting the instrument, which has them play the default piano for the first note - I've [hopefully] corrected it in this new version below... If it didn't, at least you know it's screwed up lol)

[Norbert]

[...] new version below...

New MP3:

TimGM6mb.zip

(4.17 MiB) Downloaded 27 times

[fp]

[...] new version below...

New MP3:
TimGM6mb.zip

hahah! There it is - I did fix it, nice.
Yep, that's how it sounded when I was working on it.

Before I forget, I do wanna shoutout my guy MFG - I did already in the tracks of the midi file itself, but I thought I'd say that in an actual post as well - helped with a bit of dissonance and the drums as well, basically saved the project lol
https://www.doomworld.com/profile/14860-mfg38/

[fp]

Finally, if someone is curious how I encoded the MP3s - this was done on Linux:
The way I do it requires the installation of "vlc-plugin-fluidsynth".
Then, put SoundFonts in: /usr/share/sounds/sf2/
Next, in VLC choose Tools > Preferences: you have to show all settings; there, go to Input/Codecs > Audio codecs > FluidSynth > (browse)
Then run: $ vlc PoP.mid --no-video --sout '#transcode{acodec=fl32}:std{mux=wav,access=file,dst=output.wav}' -vvv
To encode output.wav to MP3: $ lame output.wav[/spoiler]

Apologies to bring this back into the limelight, but can you explain this in a bit more detail? I want to learn how to do this for an unrelated project that I am working on, and VLC is confusing for lil' ol' me (I used Celluloid for the longest time and only recently have uninstalled it in favour of VLC).