Monday, November 26, 2012

Midi Music!

Midi music is one thing that everyone who was born before 2000 definitely knows but honestly, doesn't think about.  Midi music was one of the first, easiest exportable ways to transfer music from an instrument and be able to replay and edit it. Another way that people know it, is because its the most commonly used method for creating video game music.




Actually about every game pre-2000 was made with midi music and even beyond. I compiled a list of some of the consoles that have lots of games in it that use midi and i was actually extremely sup-prized at how many there are. For the Nintendo Consoles: Nintendo, game boy, super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, VirtualBoy, GameBoy advance, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo WII.  For the Sega Consoles stuff like Master System, Game Gear, Saga CD, and Dreamcast although there are more not many people know those consoles. Some computer based system: Commodore 64/128, Dos-Win8, Atari, Amiga, Apple products.  Sony products are Playstation 1-3 and portable. Both Xbox consoles, all NEX consoles, and both Atari consoles have all used midi.





Some of really popular games that used midi very heavily and were know for it was the Nintendo Mario, Or Star Wars old video games which all have over 200 different songs per game. Even a video game that came in a cereal box was loaded with over 20 tracks of midi but then again, when do they ever give away anything good in cereal boxes anymore?

1 comment:

  1. This was interesting. I guess i never really thought about what kind of music was really playing while I played my Super Mario games!

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