I really, and i say REALLY like General MIDI, and some of you people too probably.I have a problem though. Why do i sometimes see a person who, just because, mocks General MIDI?It also annoys me when people call General MIDI "Baldis Basics ahh music" or whatevery the fuck.I just don't seem to get why those jerks should obnoxiously injury General MIDI :(
ESL thread.
>>108634301Imo it gets overly hyped in /vr/. I like MIDI music though in old games.
I blame the default Windows GM soundfont, it's terrible. Brings back memories, but terrible.
>>108634301it is an extremely old, limited and inaccurate standard that has been superseded by artnet, osc, even usb midi is better than traditional DIN.
>>108634466UOL reply
>>108634301People don't know about sound fonts, vsts or let alone dedicated physical modules. Mainstream dropped it over 20 years ago. It doesn't help that synths that sound good are locked down to Windows and maybe Mac.
>>108634301It sounds cheesy and lame, even with one of the "good" sound fonts. Specifically talking about old PC game music, by the way. MIDI itself is fine.
>>Why sometimes doesn't General MIDI get the respect it deservesHe's a general who has lost every war that he fought. A bit like that tattooed alcoholic in the pentagon.
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>>108634301midi is cool but autistic people like you make it less coolits specifically something only for video games and it was such an awful bandaid for real sound. love for it is only nostalgia and nothing more
>>108637925>midi>its specifically something only for video gamesabsolute retard
>>108634301As far as video games are concerned, there's just too many differences between how different MIDI devices soundSome games sound great on an MT32, others require a Sound Canvas, some are only decent on Yamaha XG hardware, while others require an OPL3, or even a GUS! And that's not even getting into softsynths or more obscure hardware.This all leads to 90% of all MIDI music sounding somewhere between okay and awful on your chosen hardware, with the remaining 10% being actually good. And this number stands no matter what hardware you have, unless you've got everything and are willing to deal with constantly switching between various bits of hardware.That's why CD audio, MOD music, WAV files and so on are so much better. They sound the same everywhere.
G-Code to MIDI is the workingman's music.
>>108637975ah I see you are ESL and don't understand the existence of soundfontsMIDI is a protocol for controlling electronic musical instruments, sound fonts, aka some faggot in a studio arbitrarily deciding whats good, are a marketing format for sample banks that are exclusively used in old videogames before CDs could actually deliver real audio contentnow go ahead and kill yourself please
>>108639515>>only post "absolute retard">ah I see you are ESL
>>108634755>superseded by artnet, oscAre you sure you know what midi is?
Yes, english is my second language and i do understand using things like WAV or CD :p
>>108634301i love the roland sound canvas so much, pure soul for retro gaming music creation. nobuo used it for final fantasy
>>108641964he used the 88 pro to be exact. I think he still used it for some tracks in FFX
>>108634301>respecting a standard that defines a list of 128 instrumentsNot sure what "respect" it deserves desu
>>108634301why bother with midi when I have electric guitars?
>>108634637yeah, it permanently tainted the midi file concept.
>>108635462Yabridge can work pretty well on Linux (except for wine wow64 breaking 32bit VSTs)Of course there aren't really any great DAWs on Linux, but you can at least use it with software that supports MIDI.
>>108642549I just run NirSoft MIDI Player through Wine
>>108642549>Of course there aren't really any great DAWs on Linuxreaper works natively on linux
a boomer living not far from me is selling an almost-never-used edirol sd-90 for €100. those are listed for €300 on ebay. should i buy it? it has an usb port.
