Ys Eternal & Ys II Eternal SC-88 MIDI request

[Incog Neato]

You know, I never had a sound card or just the soundfont banks or whatever to properly interpret MIDI files. >:( Everything always sounded tinny and wonky and just plain crap. >>:((

So! I was just wondering if anyone that has awesome MIDI powers could record the MIDI files as mp3s??? :D

Ys Eternal ones: www.sendspace.com/file/ulll2x (from MP83's thread at seldane.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ysI&action=display&thread=4469)

Ys II Eternal (SC-88 and SC-88 Pro only): www.mediafire.com/?c3ao8y19k759izu




// Link fixed.

[korzic]

Hmm, can't you play them in Windows Media Player, or Winamp or something? It seems as though Winamp, at least, supports the .MID filetype:

www.fileinfo.com/software/nullsoft/winamp_media_player

Also, the link you gave to MP83's thread seems to be incorrect.

[Incog Neato]

Oh, they play just fine but they sound LIKE CRAP. Once I get home, I'll upload 2 MIDIs (Ice Ridge and Termination in SC-88 Pro) that someone recorded as MP3s as an example how the SHOULD sound. :\

And the Sendspace link works just fine. :O

Edit~~~~~

VOILA! Les examples!

www.mediafire.com/download.php?yf8j4aa0nben69u

Do MIDIs sound this awesome on your system!? Cuz they sure don't for me! Aside from Ys Origin's Termination, I think this one (SC-88 Pro) is pretty damn sweet.

[korzic]

Those sounded a lot better than the original links you gave, for sure. Not to say that the MIDIs are bad, necessarily (well, to me =p), but there is a clear difference in music quality. I'm afraid I won't be of any help to you, then.

And the Sendspace link works just fine. :O

Actually, I was referring to the Proboards link, but MP83 seems to have fixed it. I wonder, did he also edit in those smilies? You never seem to use those. =p

[Lenalia]

The thing is, for it to sound that good, you'd pretty much have to play back the SC-88 version on an actual Roland SC-88, or the SC-88 Pro version on an actual Roland SC-88 Pro. (The SC-88 seems to go for $150-200 on eBay, and the SC-88 Pro for $250-300 -- I don't think they're especially common pieces of hardware except among professional composers). The problem with MIDIs is that they sound different on pretty much every device -- instruments that the composer expected to be quiet might be fairly loud and vice versa, or an instrument might be used to create a certain effect that's lost when that instrument sounds different.

Still, since you asked... I have a soundfont that I rather like, and I used a copy of Timidity I had lying around to turn the GM MIDIs from Ys I Eternal into MP3s (and uploaded it here if you'd like to give it a listen), but even that's kind of a mixed bag -- a lot of the slower tracks (like Feena) came out pretty well, but some of the faster tracks (like Holders of Power)... not so much. But it'll probably be a step up for those whose computers can't play MIDI very well.

Neither set of the Ys II ones really sound right with this soundfont, though.

[Incog Neato]

I used to use Timidity for the Ys Eternal and Ys II Eternal MIDIs too. XD

In fact, I used to love that format as well as S3Ms and MODs.

Ah, the good old days~~~~~~~