Comment by pogue
14 hours ago
That was amazing, really great song & visuals too. Takes me back to the days when you couldn't close the keygen because the midi playing was such a banger.
14 hours ago
That was amazing, really great song & visuals too. Takes me back to the days when you couldn't close the keygen because the midi playing was such a banger.
MIDI songs? I checked, I couldn't find any from the link you posted. Most were different module formats, like XM, Protracker, S3M, Impulse Tracker. Those have nothing to do with midi other than they also produce music.
At one point in time, (I think maybe in connection with some mobile phone being able to play .midi files?) MIDI songs was (incorrectly) referring to a style/type of music rather than the transport/protocol we use for sending notes between instruments/devices, or the file format.
I'm still since then always assuming the above when someone says "MIDI music"; they really mean "really basic/simple music" or just straight up "chiptune" sometimes.
It has nothing to do with MIDI really, just a misnomer.
I'd say 'MIDI music' became a catch-all for music that's represented as data that is in turn triggering samples, rather than being a pure audio file. Might be actual MIDI or might be tracker music etc.
A more appropriate term is "chiptunes". I also heard people refer to it as keygen music.
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They've probably been converted over the years, just like you might convert an mp3 into flac or ogg or whatever.
Do you know if someone is hosting these in web radio format so I could stream in a car and such?
You might enjoy this: https://scenestream.net/demovibes/streams/
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https://radio.erb.pw/public/subspace
I don't. I'm sure you could find an archive of just midi files out there though.