Canyon is good, but Passport.mid is the superior Windows midi file... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w
Let’s not forget about onestop.mid
Canyon.mid
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#112I remember playing this on my Gravis Ultrasound and trying to convince my friends it sounded better. ( https://youtu.be/Q3rb5Yi0BBI )
Gravis Ultrasound playing TIE Fighter music is the pinnacle of game music for me.
Re: Canyon.mid
#113I didn’t know how much I wanted to hear and see this. Much nostalgia.
It suddenly occurs to me that I always thought I missed the most interesting times in computer history, but I actually experienced the majority of major changes (about DOS onwards).
Re: Canyon.mid
#114My favorite old midi file is this one. It's playable in winamp or any other thing with a default wavetable for midi synth. It was the background music for an NES puzzle game, transcribed to midi.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly across the screen etc. The live product was taken down twice due to these easter eggs. There are no more easter eggs.
Sad times. If you never accidentally trigger these then who cares…
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
This is absolutely terrifying and I hate it. Congratulations to the author, it's very interesting!
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Words can expand from their original meanings, you know. Look at any music player or just everyday speech, you'll see "song" being used to refer to a discrete unit of music in the same way you could use "track" or "tune".
Maybe, but we can still protest against changes when they are silly. Nobody in French would call Debussy's Clair de Lune "une chanson", why should the English language be oversimplified? Also, good music players use the word "track", and one song (or other musical piece) can span over multiple tracks, e.g. Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother.
It's not about simplification, it's just the way language works and evolves. Like how "track" originally referred to the literal engraved track on a phonograph record, yet you claim that that's obviously the correct term for a musical piece. At one point someone argued like you do now about that word.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
Re: Canyon.mid
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
Yep worked for a pretty large company and they had a (capable), high ranking dev guy who was prone to add easter eggs in the UI. Konami code would cause something to fly across the screen etc. The live product was taken down twice due to these easter eggs. There are no more easter eggs.
How did the eggs cause the product to go down?