The Music Request Thread [Updated 2/28]

Progress report 3/15/08 - Yeah, I tried Halfmoon with two different MIDIs and an SPC, but ran into problems with size in two (also had too many loops in the SPC one, but it was still way too big) and notes in another. Good luck on this one, Supertails - you'll need it. :X

Hmm... Touhou 8's music is starting to grow on me. Huge thanks to Troopa Pride who found a site with the whole soundtrack of MIDIs - I'm going to be doing all the Touhou music I can from here-on out.

@ Everyone else
If you don't mind having a monotonous-but-otherwise-correct drumline (my ears fail at fixing it) and a relatively large filesize (3kb-ish for big songs, but still useable in channels that aren't 22-24) I can now convert music from GYM files successfully, so if you need a song from a Genesis game, can find GYMs, and the MIDI isn't on VGMusic, PM me. I currently have GYMs for Phantasy Star 4, Ristar, and the Sonic series, and also almost every track from Langrisser 2 converted, but I don't want to hand out my L2 music.

If anyone wants to know how to make use of GYM2MID without the song sounding like crap, then here you go: It adds rests to the beginnings of all the channels and sometimes adds "echo-y" channels (those can and should be omitted from the final product) that come later than the ones they're based off of, usually later on, in order to consume 8 channels. Some early channels (namely important ones) have the same amount of rests, but the drumline will have duplicate rest segments of two different kinds, and the ones after the drumline tend to have a different number of rests. If you don't know if you need a channel, listen to it alone and determine whether you need it. Also, it will take quite a bit of work to synch up the drumline with the rest of the song, and the same goes for the later channels since the rest amounts are messy there. Also, beware of screechy high octaves which usually show up out of nowhere. Usually, it will be something low (o2 or 1) that got translated into o7 or o8 for some reason or something you couldn't hear amplified so that it would wake the dead.

tl;dr: Rests are added at the start of each channel, and they're not all the same, so resynch it. Most octaves are correct, but some very low ones end up unusually high in rare cases. The drumline is all c.

As for NSF2MIDI, I *tried* used it for Cocoron and Kirby MIDIs, and tried to use an NSF file since the MIDI of Yogurt Yard was meh, but though NSF2MIDI-produced songs sound fine in MIDI, the durations are ALL screwed up. At least it gets the notes right. So, yeah, I will be using the .txt from the NSF Yogurt Yard to fix the Yogurt Yard the MIDI had by hand sometime soon - this way, it will have the right pitches AND durations. So no, I don't recommend NSF2MIDI to make music, but it's good if you need to correct pitches of some notes.