chiptune maker!

[cinni]

i wanted to share one of my favorite time-wasters, the midi to chiptune converter program known as GXSCC! https://meme.institute/gxscc/

i'm also including my personal collection of MIDI files - it's a mix of sounds from anime, gitaroo man, hamtaro, harvest moon, katamari, mario paint, umjammer lammy, pokemon, sailor moon, & misc. :-) https://files.catbox.moe/oqkcqv.zip

where do you guys get your midis?

[aliceavocado]

woahh that site looks cool! i usually get mine from this site http://en.midimelody.ru/ it has some popup ads so be careful, but to be honest if i really want a partiular song ill go on like any site lol :p

[CooperationIsKey]

Ooooh, midis. I used to collect midis like crazy when I was a teenager--and kept them on 3.5 inch floppy disks, lol!

When I was putting together my Halloween midi collection, I just sorta scoured the web, including the geocities archives and archive.org, for songs. I haven't really found them in any one place, but kinda everywhere. I'll often plug in the song title in a search and cross my fingers, lol.

[Melooon]

Ooooh, midis. I used to collect midis like crazy when I was a teenager--and kept them on 3.5 inch floppy disks, lol!

When I was putting together my Halloween midi collection, I just sorta scoured the web, including the geocities archives and archive.org, for songs. I haven't really found them in any one place, but kinda everywhere. I'll often plug in the song title in a search and cross my fingers, lol.

Are you tryna tell me people DON't keep their midis on 3.5 disks anymore!?!?



  I have a USB floppy drive from 2000 that still works with a modern mac. GXSCC is great (I used it for the music on my VR page) I also really like using an MT-32 emulator called MUNT https://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/ but its a lil annoying to setup as you have to search from rom files.

HERE is a zip of my disks, they are mostly regular popular music that just happened to sound good on midi! - https://melonking.net/files/Daniels-Midis.zip

And same, midi sites are hit and miss, Iv never found one where everything sounds good or that has everything. I'm surprised there is not a community of expert midi makers out there somewhere.

[CooperationIsKey]

Oh my lord you seriously have a working 3.5 floppy disk drive? I'm impressed. XD Thanks for sharing your midis, too!

[TheFrugalGamer]

I'm surprised there is not a community of expert midi makers out there somewhere.

This is BADLY NEEDED and if you find one please point me to it!!!! I have an old synthesizer that I barely know how to use, and it uses MIDI primarily to do everything. I also enjoy making midi music on https://signal.vercel.app/ (also https://onlinesequencer.net/), and I've found most people only interact with MIDI as a sort of stepping stone to get somewhere else. But I love it as its own end. I've got some songs I've done on my Music page, but they're all converted to .wav, because I figured no one would want the .midi files themselves.

[Memory]

Let me share my personal link collection of MIDI sites with you.

Game MIDIs of all kind. Has lots of Amiga Music MODs too.
http://www.mirsoft.info/gamemids.php
Some classical MIDIs
https://royalfreemusicsociety.org.uk/midi-file-archive
Classical MIDIs, especially from the U.K.
http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/complist.html
Wanna party? Irish MIDIs!
http://www.irishmidifiles.ie/midifiles.htm

midi.ru was a good inspiration too, but that site doesn't exist anymore. You could make a video game soundtrack from the songs there.

[xwindows]

i wanted to share one of my favorite time-wasters, the midi to chiptune converter program known as GXSCC! https://meme.institute/gxscc/

Ah, I also have that on my machine, downloaded a quite long time ago. Also works to some extent in GNU/Linux under WINE too; but the main fault there is you have to specify MIDI file name on the command line since drag & drop doesn't work.

In case anyone here hadn't tried this and hadn't pored through the original manual, I'll let you in on one "secret":

• Double-click on the GXSCC logo on the top-left of the window, and the program will turn into a (different thing) with a completely different sound!
• Double-click there again, and it would return back to being (the thing it would normally be).

[John]

Barry Taylor's Traditional Tunebook is a huge collection of midi folk tunes played by Barry Taylor, who kindly gave permission for them to be used as background music for personal websites.

[littlelum]

While on the topic of places to find MIDIs, there's a handful on MFGG.