Rate/Rape My MIDIs

[Jedi QuestMaster]

Okay, I've sequenced a bunch of MIDIs over the years, some of them for games, some for other people ('s games) & some just for the hell of it.

I'd like some input on some of these (keep in mind I'm not a musical major; I can't even read music):

One of my earliest, done in '03. Actually an arrangement: someone gave me a MIDI with some notes in it, & this is what I did to it:

http://www.geocities.com/jedi_questmaster/SexyHand.mid

I forgot how this came about. But I submitted it to someone for a Tetris-like puzzle game:

http://www.geocities.com/jedi_questmaster/Athena.mid

A game I canceled in '04. One of the better themes, in my opinion:

http://www.geocities.com/jedi_questmaster/Stage_6_The_Hunt.mid

Same game, different stage:

http://www.geocities.com/jedi_questmaster/Stage_X_Enemy_Fighter_Suprema.mid

One of my more recent ones, done in '05. Opening theme credits:

http://www.geocities.com/jedi_questmaster/MenaceReturns.mid (doesn't sound well in QuickTime)

[Gario]

Well, this is coming from someone with a shitload of midi writing experience; this isn't that bad. However, you need to work with your velocities a whole lot more.

By the sound of things, you don't mess with your velocities in order to create dynamics. This is the single most common problem that I run across when listening to midi writing. Please use them to their fullest.

It may sound strange, but you need some form of reverb to beef the sound up in the music. A trick that I use to emulate reverb in midi is creating multiple tracks of the same tune, moving each new track about a 16th ahead of the previous, toning the volume down and detuning the sound. Believe me, it makes a world of difference.

Here are some examples of that.

Without any reverb:

http://www.box.net/shared/9y0ze7ub71

With reverb:

http://www.box.net/shared/vzmbet7h4v

By the way, I use SBL for the fonts, so the GM sounds muddy...

SBL:

http://www.box.net/shared/f8jo7imdyt

I hope this helps you midi future!