Posts by HertzDevil - SMW Central

MIDI transcription of Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path (HM) as promised on Skype.

This appears to be my first post at this forum. Hello World! I have known Vitor and Wakana (plus a few AMK users) for a while before joining this forum.

The Shining Needle Castle Sinking in the Air.

This one is never meant to be played using the "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth"; most players will not enable the GS banks properly, and the trumpet will cut itself due to high polyphonic demand. Use something like VirtualMIDISynth (with the default GM/GS soundfont converted to a SF2 file) instead.

Each channel in AddMusicK should have its own default octave and note length. In other words, the following two pieces of MML should output the identical music data:
(this example is taken from Bach's Chorale 1)

Code

#0 @1 l2 o5			#0 @1 l2 o5
#1 @1 l4 o4                     #0 d c4 <b4 a g
#2 @1 l4 o3                     
#3 @1 l4 o2                     #1 @1 l4 o4
                                #1 d e f+ g2 f+ d2
#0 d c4 <b4 a g                 
#1 d e f+ g2 f+ d2              #2 @1 l4 o3
#2 a b >c d e d8 c8 <b2         #2 a b >c d e d8 c8 <b2
#3 f+ g a b >c d <g2            
                                #3 @1 l4 o2
                                #3 f+ g a b >c d <g2

However, in the first snippet, AddMusicK uses "l4 o2" for all channels that follow. As far as I know, none of the MML dialects allows any of these commands to have global scope across channels.

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I should also request two purely syntactical constructs that are commonly found in other MML dialects:

1. The "#" command should allow multiple channel indices. That is to say, the following MML:

Code

#012 ; any data

should expand to:

Code

#0 ; any data
#1 ; any data
#2 ; any data

If such a command is not found, the target channel should still be set to "#0" by default rather than "#01234567".

2. Key signatures may be added anywhere with scope limited to the current channel(s), such that sharp and flat signs are automatically applied to each note that does not provide its own accidental sign. For example, the following MML:

Code

_{+fcgdae}         ; F# Major / D# Minor, melodic scale
d e f g a b+ > c++ d
_{=fcgdae} _{-bea} ; Eb Major / C Minor, melodic scale
c d e f g a= b= > c

should expand to:

Code

d+ e+ f+ g+ a+ b+ > c++ d+
c d e- f g a b > c

This syntax is taken from PMD, a dialect for the PC-98's YM2608 chip. NSD.lib, a dialect for the NES, uses "K{...}". The first character within the braces indicates the type of accidental to apply to all note names that follow it. In particular, "=" stands for the natural sign; because the equality character is never used outside replacement macros and special commands beginning with "#", no ambiguity should arise while parsing. If a note has an accidental sign, then the key signature command may be ignored for that note (as in "a= b=" above).

This also introduces double accidentals, which AddMusicK does not currently handle. They should as well be allowed since the N-SPC engine does not store the octave and pitch of each note separately.

(The compile-time transpose command "h" is not an intuitive solution; snippets like "h2 efgab" make sense only when one uses solfege names, e.g. "h2 mi fa so la ti".)

Since I no longer have to produce AddMusicK MML files to use AddMusicK, I should stay here a bit more often.

A work in progress done from memory (except not really since I did this on the Game Boy before). I am a bit surprised that I could not find it at this site's catalog. Vanilla samples only.

Super Mario Galaxy - Battlerock Galaxy
SPC - Source MML - Generated MML

Another really incomplete work in progress, not sure if I should finish this because I had lost my patience trying to reduce the vibrato lag. Open hihat is from Super Robot Wars 4, the rest are vanilla.

Touhou: Dateless Bar "Old Adam" - The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia
SPC - Source MML - Generated MML

Also, here is the source MML of my most recent submission. The MML cross-compiler is private right now, it won't be released soon.