How to record sound as midi file?

monager · Post by **monager** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:31 pm

Hello there

First of all, respect to this program, quite an impressive one, isn't it? All those old days came back to my mind.

Even though I found some related topics I haven't found a topic covering my question.

Beeing a passionate piano player I would really like to get the sheets of some music. Therefore it would be great beeing able to play and record/extract the music played in the game as a Midi file! (Then I could import the midi file in my program and have it displayed as sheet music).

I would appreciate a little help on that or a suggestion of another proper emulator useful in this case.

Best!

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:32 pm

It can't be done with zsnes. I've seen wav/mp3->midi converter programs, but I've never seen one free.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:51 am

Yeah. MIDI conversion isn't a trivial job.

It's probably easier to convert SPC to MIDI than a wave format, but... still not a simple task.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:59 am

The closest thing I've ever seen done was a built in MOD player in the infamous Snemul.

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:53 am

rip the .spc
.spc to .IT (impulse tracker format a mod-like format) use OpenSPC by Buthca
.IT to .mid (MOD to MID converter) this should be widely available

certain game however, failed at step 'a',
edit: the resulting quality on step 'c' is highly questionable though

Deathlike2 wrote:Snemul

ah that bring back memories,
however i never managed to .mod-ize Chrono Trigger opening music using that emu

Sara · Post by **Sara** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:22 am

There's a program called spc2midi.
Google's your friend as far as that goes.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:31 am

http://gigo.retrogames.com/download.html

monager · Post by **monager** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:36 pm

Thanks for your kind answers so far! I'll try it out over the weekend! Even though "ripping" the SPC first sounds quite complicated

I'll do my best!

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:29 pm

Eh, not really.

When you get the sound to within a second before the next track starts, you select save SPC

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:05 am

And of course there's always http://SNESmusic.org if you don't feel like ripping it yourself.

monager · Post by **monager** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:09 pm

and there is also, as I just found, a page containing a lot of stuff in midi format

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... assic.html

What a great page!

I wonder if its made by people "hearing and writing down" the music some genius/freaks, or by a program...

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:37 pm

monager wrote:and there is also, as I just found, a page containing a lot of stuff in midi format

http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/ni ... assic.html

What a great page!

I wonder if its made by people "hearing and writing down" the music some genius/freaks, or by a program...

Midi is a just a file with separate instrument tracks, so it'll fit the former.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:31 am

They have been removing files made by programs at vgmusic.com but there are still a fair few NES tunes that are done by noteworthy.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:18 pm

You don't need to be a genius/freak to sequence midi-files, you just need some time and patience.

monager · Post by **monager** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:16 pm

but you gotta be good in listening in order to recognize individual chords and tons just by listening to them, writing it doen into sheets ot programming a midi is simple, as long as you know what you have to write...but they used a program anyway

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:53 am

Johan_H wrote:You don't need to be a genius/freak to sequence midi-files, you just need some time and patience.

not as much with things like virtuanes and NSF files.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:21 am

monager wrote:but you gotta be good in listening in order to recognize individual chords and tons just by listening to them, writing it doen into sheets ot programming a midi is simple, as long as you know what you have to write...but they used a program anyway

Or you can grab something with per-channel monitoring.

Just because it wasn't automated doesn't mean it was by ear.

monager · Post by **monager** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:32 pm

ok, you score, I am not that fit in programming and computers

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