MS-DOS games had the best music back in those days
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KingButz 05/18/12 11:35:00 AM #1: |
MS-DOS games had the best music back in those days
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Rad Link 5 05/18/12 11:36:00 AM #2: |
Disagree.
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wg64Z 05/18/12 11:43:00 AM #3: |
Straight up wrong.
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Takfloyd_mkII__ 05/18/12 12:11:00 PM #4: |
The crappiness of the samples in General MIDI(which is probably what you're talking about) is absolutely ridiculous, so no.
MIDI in general encompasses all synthesized music though, including most video game music before this generation, so by that definition you'd be right. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KingButz 05/18/12 12:14:00 PM #5: |
I'll take crappy general midi samples over blips and beeps anyday
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Rad Link 5 05/18/12 12:19:00 PM #6: |
Those blips and beeps form magic, though!
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Takfloyd_mkII__ 05/18/12 12:41:00 PM #7: |
Chiptunes can be so much more than blips and beeps:
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KingButz 05/18/12 12:56:00 PM #8: |
From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #007 No way is that 8-bit -- http://img.imgcake.com/nio/bokbokbokpngur.png Mr Caffeine? He was awesome. - Ayuyu ... Copied to Clipboard!
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TheKnightOfNee 05/18/12 1:26:00 PM #9: |
This comparison doesn't even make sense. It's like saying "roads>boats"
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KingButz 05/18/12 1:35:00 PM #10: |
I was referring to General MIDI music in games, such as was seen in many PC games in the late eighties and early nineties.
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GameBopAdv 05/18/12 4:16:00 PM #11: |
I love the MIDI sounds in old PC/DOS games, especially those that use the OPL3 soundchip. Though, MIDIs played on a more modern PC to me generally sound pretty bad imo.
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KingButz 05/18/12 4:19:00 PM #12: |
Yeah, you have to listen to them with that chip. Luckily you can usually find recordings using Sound Blaster 16/Pro
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Takfloyd_mkII__ 05/18/12 4:54:00 PM #13: |
No way is that 8-bit
Nobody said anything about 8-bit. I think you don't know what the word "chiptune" means. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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OmarsComin 05/18/12 4:59:00 PM #14: |
Real instruments
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KingButz 05/18/12 5:01:00 PM #15: |
Please, define it for me then.
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Takfloyd_mkII__ 05/18/12 5:31:00 PM #16: |
It's music created with sound chips from anything that synthesizes sound rather than playing back premade ones.
Today, most/all chiptunes are made through emulated sound chips and not physical ones though. Basically it's music that you forge from scratch inside a computer. MIDI, meanwhile, uses samples made to sound like/recorded from real instruments. In other words, making songs like the one I posted is a remarkable feat, much more technically difficult than stringing together a bunch of MIDI notes. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KingButz 05/18/12 5:34:00 PM #17: |
Ok
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Paratroopa1 05/18/12 5:35:00 PM #18: |
Takfloyd_mkII__ posted...
The crappiness of the samples in General MIDI(which is probably what you're talking about) is absolutely ridiculous, so no. MIDI in general encompasses all synthesized music though, including most video game music before this generation, so by that definition you'd be right. Good, someone covered this before I had to. MIDI as a standard is great, though outdated in some unfortunate ways. But general MIDI samples are goddamn awful. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Liquid Wind 05/18/12 6:48:00 PM #19: |
KingButz posted...
From: Takfloyd_mkII__ | #007 Chiptunes can be so much more than blips and beeps: No way is that 8-bit actually all of the samples in that song are 8 bit, the video has a link to the .it file, you can check it yourself MIDI in general encompasses all synthesized music though, including most video game music before this generation, so by that definition you'd be right. most video game music has either been synthesized internally(chiptunes) or uses it's own format for playing notes and samples(more like a tracker module than a MIDI), and streaming audio really started to take over way before this generation ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Liquid Wind 05/18/12 6:50:00 PM #20: |
also GMIDI is terrible*, wtf is this topic
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