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I started asking my father, a concert pianist, composer, and teacher - this question when I was 4. He explained. In my head I said, “Bullshit.” I continued to p
by psyc 4y ago
I started asking my father, a concert pianist, composer, and teacher - this question when I was 4. He explained. In my head I said, “Bullshit.” I continued to press him on it periodically until I was a teenager. I still shook my head and thought, “What is wrong with these people.” Now, I can read sheet music just fine, but I still feel like … never mind. I’ve done a ton of composing without once taking any notice of what key any of it was in. And it all sounds fucking great. I prefer to do as much as possible “by ear”. I’m unbelievably stubborn.
tl;dr - Somebody really should have picked up on the autism when I was 4, and MIDI rolls don’t give a shit about keys and accidentals.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoMIDI rolls don't, by themselves, make any noise or even inherently define any note frequencies at all. The frequency of the sound produced by a given synthesizer when it receives any particular MIDI note number is up to the synthesizer. This is part of the point of the MIDI tuning system. The synthesizer and/or the tuning system may very much care about keys and accidentals.
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- Nemrod67 4y agodo share! I'm a "MIDI composer" myself and love to hear what others do :) obligatory self-promotion, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUmdU7WpuhAv3imtVqkGpIA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUmdU7WpuhAv3imtVqkGpIA
- psyc 4y agoThat's good stuff! Reminds me very, very vaguely of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapZZdog0NI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapZZdog0NI Here's a small sampler. I include one that's maybe a bit similar, the one called 'crsh' https://soundcloud.com/w37hlwyq0a/sets https://soundcloud.com/w37hlwyq0a/sets
- Nemrod67 4y agoI liked that Overworld theme a lot, reminded me of the Nexomon Evolution theme