felineki's KNT MIDIs (Test MOD up July 25!)

[felineki]

Here's a sneak peek at "Yasu Kekunai".

[Mechadon]

Apart from there being no singing, it doesn't sound much different from the original. Can't wait for the finished one.

[Rojo Mojo]

Listening to your music while drawing a SPC/KNT character is very cool, it's help to get in the mood, thank you for your musics Felineki!

[felineki]

Thanks. I really like KNT's soundtrack so I have a lot of fun with this. And I'm glad others can enjoy it, too.

One new thing today. Finally fixed up the first of my older MIDIs... the very first one in fact, Otto Dokkoi Nihonbare. I think it's even more accurate to the original now. Biggest change you'll notice is that it's now the full size version, with both verses. Also I finally got those blasted pitch bends on the harmonica and guitar right!

[Rojo Mojo]

HA! Your getting better and better.

Just a question of curiosity, do you think that you will someday do in MIDI's the SPC musics? But still I like to discover by you the musics that it had in the original serie, some I first heard in the NES game. I would like to hear someday the musics in Midi's of the serie I first saw that is the SPC version.

[felineki]

I suppose it's possible. It would be a bit more difficult, since SPC doesn't have a soundtrack release like KNT. However, since I've managed to do a few KNT songs that were only in the show itself, I could probably do the same for SPC.

[Daisensei]

Really a good job you have done, felineki! Ottodokkoi Nihonbare really sounds better. I'm expecting new MIDI from you. 

[felineki]

New one today. http://home.mchsi.com/~mbiddinger/nasubi.mid

[felineki]

Two more that weren't on the CDs:
http://home.mchsi.com/~mbiddinger/bgm4.mid
http://home.mchsi.com/~mbiddinger/bgm5.mid

[felineki]

New one today: http://home.mchsi.com/~mbiddinger/bgm26.mid This one first showed up at the end of the episode where Nyagoking is first discovered. Really beautful, I wish it had been included on the CDs.

[Daisensei]

New one today. http://home.mchsi.com/~mbiddinger/nasubi.mid

A little out of topic, but anyway it's a New Year time, so...
The title of this one is "Ichi Fujisan, ni taka, san nasubi", and in a rough translation is "First Mount Fuji, second hawk and thind eggplant". That comes from a superstition current in Japan that if one had its first dream of the year (hatsuyume) with Mount Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant, in that order, it would have a exceptionally good year. Sadly my first dream are about none of those items. 

[felineki]

Well, I accidentally lost all of my KNT music during the transition to my new computer, so reference material for MIDIs is currently limited to what I can find online that's of a suitable quality. Anyway, I started on "To Be Yourself" (just the intro so far). There's already 2 MIDIs of this song out there and they're both good, but since I'm intending to do the entire soundtrack, I'd have to do this one sooner or later anyway. I had actually intended to sequence the Otama (Satomi Koorogi) version, but it turned out to be difficult to transcribe. The original one is a bit easier.

[kidkaramaru]

Wow! Your new MIDi is great!(felineki´s quality)  like all the Felineki's Midis.

[Tigriss]

Wow, the last post here was two years ago. Anyway...

I was watching some Mario Paint Composer videos and I was wondering if you've ever considered doing anything with that. I remember I once tried to do the SPC theme (using all cats, of course) on the game itself, but I couldn't fit the full thing on it.

[felineki]

Yeah, sorry I've been falling so far behind on this. I'm in the process of switching from MIDI to MOD, which is taking a bit of time to get used to, as well as taking time to acquire suitable instrument samples.

As for Mario Paint... from what I remember, it doesn't let you use sharps or flats which would make it pretty difficult.

[felineki]

This still isn't anywhere near complete yet, but I feel so bad having let this topic go to rot that I figured I might as well at least show that my KNT music work isn't dead yet, and give an idea of the direction I'm going in. Here's my in-progress rendition of the hissatsu BGM in MOD (technically IT) format. This is like a MIDI in that it actually contains music data and is synthesized in real time. However, unlike a MIDI which contains only the music data and nothing else, and thus the sound will vary greatly depending on what it's played back on, a MOD contains the base instrument samples that are used to play back the music. Thus it's possible to be more specific with the sounds, and it will sound the same wherever it's played.

However, these files aren't quite as widely supported as MIDI. It's quite likely that you won't have a program that can play them back on computer by default. If you happen to have the media player Winamp, it has native support. Otherwise, I'd recommend Un4Seen Developments' XMPlay, which is very lightweight yet powerful.

[sjonnoh]

wow, that actually really sounds great!

[Teyandee]

天下無敵の 大勝利さ!

That`s good! Can`t wait to hear the full version! 

[Fureon]

Sounds great indeed.

[felineki]

Gosh, it's been a long time since I posted in this topic! But don't worry, my love for KNT's soundtrack and my urge to make music files hasn't died. So here are my two latest pieces:

Ottodokkoi Nihonbare (Version 3): Yes, yet ANOTHER one. Hey, it is the theme song after all, so it deserves special attention, IMO. My skills at this whole transcribing-by-ear thing have been growing, and this version fixes some mistakes in the previous versions, and is all around the most accurate one yet.

Ongaku Gekijou Sono 2 (Part B): The lively shamisen piece often used for parties and such.

As has been noted, the activity around here has been dying down recently. So I'm going to try and make an effort to make and post some more MIDIs.