old midi
what were YOU doing in january 2007?? to be fair this wasn't my heyday: i was in high school by now, and had an mp3 player. i was already scouring limewire for music by this point. but i clearly went through and saved some/all of my old midi files?? and they're here for you to enjoy? from a disc only titled "jan 3 2007"
jan 3 2007 archive
ash_rdm.mid - "Rainy Day Man"; notes say "sequenced by Bomi Lee (ywlee@igs.net) Altered by Ashley". rainy day man was a dub only song from sailor moon if i recall. you'll have to forgive me as my anime trivia is very rusty.
endingcreditsrby.mid - "Ending Credits" from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. no notes on this one. this has some variation to it and is a bit of an arrangement itself.
finalfight.mid - "Champion Battle" from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. notable for using square waves only on the arrangement. no arranger notes on this one either.
hallfame.mid - "Hall of Fame" from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. this is apparently on multiple channels but only shows up as a piano on my sequencer. it still souneded pretty much like this, very bare bones.
heart1.mid - "Heart Moving" from Sailor Moon. used for eps 1-26 of the 90's anime. i had to tweak some of the instruments on my end in the sequencer to get to sound right (helpfully labeled by the arranger).
jpokemon.mid - "Aim To Be A Pokemon Master" from the Pokemon anime. this is the 1st japanese pokemon opening theme. flawless in the sequencer!
legendarygcs.mid - "Legendary Beast Encounter" from Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. this song used to jump scare me both in game and in my music player because the intro is SO jarring. several errors regarding notes not having end points in the sequencer but no big deal.
outer's openig theme.mid - "Uranus, Soshite, Neptune" from Sailor Moon; this is the outer's theme from the S arc in the anime. (specifically, i think this is for uranus, as the track name i'm referencing from has mulitple cues.) had this midi when i was a kid and then years later i found the OST to source the original cue (tears in my eyes). this uses some weird paramters according to the sequencer! i had to mute one but otherwise it's okay.
pk_gs_rsnp.mid - "National Park" from Pokmeon Gold/Silver/Crystal; notes say "Sequenced by Troy Davis (bombac1@hotmail.com)" thanks for leaving that there! this is a real good one. there is nothing chiller than this.
rivals.mid - "The Rivals" from the Pokemon anime. this is the 2nd japanese pokemon opening theme, a stripped down version here. i always was charmed by it. and then blown away when i found the source track! i love the modulation in it...
seramun.mid - "Moonlight Densetsu" from Sailor Moon. for some reason, this has some interesting chord choices. i wonder if it's based on the dic version of this song?
she's got the power.mid - "She's Got The Power" from Sailor Moon; notes say "sequenced by Bomi Lee (ywlee@igs.net) Sailor Moon Cyber Page". another one by them! so this was by stan bush(!?) and replaced "ai no senshi" for episode 61 of the dub. now i've GOT to find the original of this song. there's a buggy parameter with my sequencer but otherwise this rocks.
sm3.mid - this is a transformation cue from sailor moon R? don't quote me on that. i don't have a lot of ways to look this up as you might imagine given the non descriptive title. maybe it's from classic though.
smrm102.mid - i have to guess this is a sailor moon R cue as well; tried looking it up by episode number that's there, and the 100s are in S. it sounds like a major song. is it from the R movie?! i really don't know. like i said, my anime trivia is super rusty.
smstarop.mid - "Sailor Star Song" from Sailor Moon; notes say "sequenced by Bomi Lee (ywlee@igs.net)" i know THIS one, the opening for the stars arc! some weird paramters but otherwise a solid one. i wuv sailor star song...
SSAnne.mid - "S.S. Anne" from Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. a very...violin classical take on this one. which i guess would make sense? it's a cruise ship for rich people, we just won a ticket for turning bill back into a person. very nice.
ssd_battle1_believe_in_victory.mid"Battle 1 ~ Believe In Victory" from Sword Of Mana/Seiken Densetsu. baby's first jrpg, this game means SO much to me and the music in it is great, including this battle track.
warrior of love.mid - "Ai no Senshi" from Sailor Moon. this one appears in both the R and S seasons, and i now have like...four versions of it saved. i DID seek this one out, after i learned its japanese title.
ww_sail.mid - "Sailing Theme" from Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. i had this song before i even knew what windwaker was. i barely knew what legend of zelda was. but i had this grandiose song that sound beautiful. i remember when i first heard it in game and was like "THAT'S IT! THATS WW_SAIL.MID!!!!!!"
if you're looking for more...
good ol' VGMusic.com is still going, and might be where i got some of the pokemon ones. the sailor moon ones are probably from long discontinued sailor moon fansites (although given my research, perhaps some are indeed still lurking in the forgotten depths of the web?).
midis are a bit of a dying breed, though. while we still use the standard to compose, everything's all about VSTs and special instruments. we don't use the default samples anymore, which is a true shame. i've been using aria maestosa to preview these, and while i could compose in it, it doesn't support realtime playback and probably never will. (last update was in 2016...) anyway. if you see a simple program that does midi sequencing and supports external keyboards with realtime playback, drop me a line.
