"One Stop" Microsoft MIDI song in MIDIjam

[stupidd26]

2:17 that song is in paper mario, i SWEAR!

[jklug11]

Wow. Totally looks like animusic...

[dogman15]

@jklug11: It's the next best thing for General MIDI on your PC!

[SuperComplexGames]

The beginning (0:00 - 0:39) is really deep...

[dogman15]

@SuperComplexGames: In at least two ways!

[Xyaron666]

i swear this reminds me of zelda!

[dogman15]

@Xyaron666: Parts of it, perhaps. Certainly not the jazz or big band parts.

[calahoon22]

the beginning of this sounds like the rain man soundtrack!

[dogman15]

@calahoon22: Maybe that was an intentional reference by David Yackley.

[greg0o1]

windows easter egg



[MKFan290]

01:44 master hand & crazy hand! xD

[CoralineR0xx]

1:20 ROCK THE TRUMPET!!!! Woot!

[allensingley]

What is the story on this song? Why is it on windows at all?

[dogman15]

@allensingley: There's no official story, but the history I can gleam from circumstantial evidence leads me to believe that David Yackly created this MIDI during the creation of Windows Me, and Microsoft put it in the "[root]:\WINDOWS\Media" folder as a hidden bonus, or as a way for users to test their computer's ability to play MIDI files, if they had no other MIDI files to test with.

I don't know. Maybe there's a more detailed story about this song somewhere else on the internet.

[guitarman856]

hey could you pllllllzzzzzzzz make a midijam of sweet child o mine by guns and roses? I mean..if your okay with that and if u know the song...

[dogman15]

@guitarman856: I don't know that song, nor do I have a MIDI file of it on my computer that I can run through MIDIjam.

[guitarman856]

@dogman15 awww man but thanks for looking

[Skar271]

Oh my holy FREAKING GOD. I got my comp from my grandma and she's had it , well, I don't know how long. I found these MIDIs on here: Onestop, Town, Flourish, all of those. I had NO FREAKIN CLUE what they were and where they came from. I thought from the sound of it that MAYBE it was Final Fantasy, but how could that be on my comp? Well you, good sir, just put the puzzle pieces together. THANK YOU.

[dogman15]

@Skar271: I'm glad I could shed a little light on the situation.

[kevinmacha]

I know that Flourish was used as a test; you could press a button to play the file and see if your audio output devices were operating.

The others? ...

[dogman15]

@kevinmacha: You know, I have a vauge memory of that test. I don't know where we would have heard the other two songs.

Canon (the camera maker) included a MIDI with one of their devices once. Remember that?

[GODMONSTERRARGH]

This is why Windows is better than mac.

[dogman15]

@GODMONSTERRARGH:

:D

[psychoclown420]

what's the first part from?

[dogman15]

@psychoclown420: As far as I know, it's not "from" anything. This is an original song by David Yackley that was included in all copies of Windows XP and Vista, and perhaps also Windows Me or 2000.

[usalt2]

@dogman15 Just checked, and this song, flourish, and town are not on Windows 2000, However, there is canyon.mid and passport.mid

[dogman15]

@usalt2: And "Clouds" came with Windows 95 because the startup screen was over a fluffy-white-clouds-with-blue-­sky background, as well as those puffy clouds being one of the main desktop backgrounds. I'm not sure what the idea behind Passport was, but the full title of Canyon is "Trip Through the Grand Canyon". As for Town and Flourish? Who knows that the composer was thinking.

[usalt2]

@dogman15 That's nice to know. Thanks!

[MetalMadArran]

the begining part is kinda spooky

[TheDudeaBides96]

0:26 my favorite part. :)

[MegaMG42]

i so want tabs for this on my guitar

[dogman15]

@MegaMG42: If the MIDI isn't already on your computer, find it online somewhere, and then use NEMIDi to solo just the guitar track(s). Run that through another program to figure out what the notes are. That's the best advice I can offer.

[macospat]

@MegaMG42 Easy. Download "Guitar Pro" for your computer (You can pirate it somewhere for free if your that kind of guy)

Then press File>Import>MIDI

Then You have ALL the notes for ALL the tracks.

You can press the guitar and see the notes.

Easy as that :)

[krye97]

What we pay a hundred bucks for...

[dogman15]

@krye97: This and a bunch of other stuff. Microsoft Office, card games, and the likes are just a bonus.

[shortwavesam]

This is a "bill gates" style of music video!

[dogman15]

@shortwavesam: Er... that's an intersting description. So you think all MIDIjam videos on YouTube are this (including mine)? A "Bill Gates" style? :-/

[shortwavesam]

@dogman15 well not really, but the camera zooming into the instruments, and quickly changing back and fourth, it just made me laugh!

[dogman15]

@shortwavesam: MIDIjam does that either automatically, or by way of the number buttons on your keyboard. Why not download it (it's free) and try it for yourself? It's pretty fun!

[shortwavesam]

@dogman15 ok, i will

[Miles75HD]

70,00+ fps, I want your computer.

[dogman15]

@Miles75HD: I'm not even sure if that's an accurate reflection of a computer's actual frames-per-second output. MIDIjam runs on any computer, and it gives you a set amount of configuaration settings: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. I usually run at 1024, except when I'm recording, when I run it at 640. You get a bit depth of 16 or 32, and refresh rates ranging from 60 (what I use), 70, 72, 75, 85, 100 and 120. My guess is that the 'FPS' you see is MIDIjam-internal

[Gold171]

sounds like the intro to one of those tv shows in the 80s at 0:38

[dogman15]

@Gold171: It is very eighties, isn't it? Just like "Passport", another MIDI file hidden on earlier Windows versions.

[Chacha5678]

why the hell is this on my computer lmao

[dogman15]

@Chacha5678: Because Microsoft wanted to do something nice by throwing in an Easter egg for people who go snooping about in their hard drive?

[scotland282]

this is a genre-defying masterpiece

[dogman15]

@scotland282: Indeed! I'd like to hear anything else that David Yackley has done.

[sforcetimefreeze]

lol invisible clarinet!

[ReAmemiyaFREAK]

this sounds like the kinda stuff I have on my phone for the alarm clock

[MajorSilvaa]

Graphics suk.

[dogman15]

@MajorSilvaa: Download the program yourself and run it at 1024x768 instead of viewing a low-res 640x480 video degraded by CamStudio. The graphics are great considering that Scott Haag created it all himself, including modeling the instruments and programming them to respond to MIDI instructions.

Sure, the graphics aren't as good as Animusic, but these instruments have to be generic and universal to play any MIDI file AND run on a personal computer. (Animusic is specific and high-end.)

[MajorSilvaa]

@dogman15 Sarcasm, sorry <3.

[AstralSandwich]

@MajorSilvaa 1:40 FIRE BREATHING FLUTE!!!

[EMOHOLACAWST]

fuuuuuuuck, i gotta have those guitar tabs for the classical,intro, and end parts

[dogman15]

@EMOHOLACAWST: If you have the original MIDI file and the right software, the notes are all there and you can probably find out the tabulation.

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@dogman15

ahhh, thanks man.

[leehsin001]

i know another invisible instrument in this song is the english horn

[dogman15]

@leehsin001: You're right! While Scott made a French horn, there's no English horn. Where in this song does it play?

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

i dunno, in the classic part? (i might not be right, but that's what i think)

[dogman15]

@leehsin001: You're right. There are some low horn notes there playing the bass notes we can't see.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

actually here are all invisible instruments in this song

english horn, clarinet, sitar, seashore

[dogman15]

@leehsin001: Yeah, I kinda figured that. Putting them in involves creating new models/animations for the instruments and coding how they'll respond to a given MIDI voice.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

if you wanna check what instruments are invisible, use midilist, itll help

[dogman15]

@leehsin001: I know about MIDIList (and MIDIsearch), thanks.

[leehsin001]

2:29 wow, no sitar yet?

[dogman15]

@leehsin001:

Nope, not yet! Scott says it (and other instruments like the banjo and woodwind instruemnts) will be in a future release. This is version 1.12.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

yes, i know, but its like taking him forever to complete 1.13! it's been like 3 years!

[dogman15]

@leehsin001

I agree. He should get on that. On the other hand, there's a lot of work involved in modeling a new 3D instrument and programming it to correctly respond to specific MIDI data.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

i've been waiting for reverse cymbal, seashore, and bird tweet

[dogman15]

@leehsin001: You already suggested the floor filling with an inch of water for seashore, but what about those other two? A bird sitting on top of the tom-toms? And I have no idea what a reverse cymbal would look like.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15

i think reverse cymbal would be somthing like a levitating cymbal shaking or an upside down cymbal and the stick would move away from it, and i think bird tweet would be something like a bird moving its mouth when it makes aound or 12 bird species and each sings a different key.

[leehsin001]

@dogman15 hopefully all 28 instruments including percussion will all be in v.1.13.

[leehsin001]

i cant believe they didnt add seashore yet! i wonder what it would look like? i think itll look like this: the floor becomes water. i also cant wait for reverse cymbal and bird tweet

[dogman15]

@leehsin001:

You said "they", but may I remind you that this was all created by one guy: Scott Haag.

[Creaphis]

I've actually managed to track down more music by this guy. Except, as far as I've been able to tell, this is the best song he ever wrote. -_-

[dogman15]

@Creaphis:

I haven't really seen much of David Yackley's other work, but then again, I haven't really tried to look.

[FullOfDaisuke]

Like this if you heard about this on /b/.

[dogman15]

@FullOfDaisuke:

Were people talking specifically about this video of mine on 4Chan, or just the "One Stop" song itself?

[FullOfDaisuke]

@dogman15 Just the One Stop song.

[angel20434]

But still - what do you do on studio?@dogman15

[dogman15]

@angel20434: CamStudio (and other programs like it, like HyperCam) record any and (almost) all images on your computer screen. This works for either a segment of the screen or the entire screen. You can also record audio at the same time, but I find adding it in later easier.

[angel20434]

What do you do on cam studio - I'm stuck on that part. I typed in midijam and it said there was no results on the search. Also, do I go on Cam studio 7 to do this or something else - @dogman15

[dogman15]

@angel20434: I highly doubt that web searches on Google or Bing or internal Wikipedia searches would yield no results for "MIDIjam" or "MIDI jam" or variants. I'm not sure what version of CamStudio I have off-hand.

[angel20434]

Great - let me see if I can get it to load up... what's your first midijam video?

[dogman15]

@angel20434:

I didn't know, so I had to go looking through my videos to find out. "Baby Elephant Walk" was my first uploaded MIDIjam video.

[angel20434]

What do you mean by midijam? some kind of basic game with the songs on it - wait I found something that is on a bowling midijam thing. Is that what you mean?

@dogman15

[dogman15]

@angel20434:

The top of the MIDIjam download/info page has Scott's bowling clipart-like pictures. He's developed a bowling game for the PC in the past.

[angel20434]

And stairway to heaven - dazed and confused is too long - unless you know led zeppelin band, I really want to do this

[angel20434]

can you tell me how to upload a midijam video - I want to do black dog with singing

[dogman15]

@angel20434:

To upload a MIDIjam video, you must first have MIDIjam on your computer and working. Find a MIDI file of the song you want it to play. Use screen capture software like CamStudio to record what MIDIjam does, and (this is what I do) separately record the audio played through Windows Media Player into audio recording software like Audacity on a second computer. Put the CamStudio video clip and the WAV file together in Windows Movie Maker. Post to YouTube.

[willistw]

to me this sounds almost like a soundtrack to a new epic final fantasy game on the level of VII

[freakomation]

@willistw 0:28 - 1:00 is like the sonic 2 sound track.

[marky61198]

@willistw the only final fantasy i played was XIII

[dogman15]

@angel20434:

This was a month ago. Things change a lot. Making one of these videos takes 20 minutes, tops.

(Bonus point if you get the movie I just referenced.)

[RaldyV]

At 2:45, Why are there 3 pianos?

I'd understand if there was ONE grand piano and one synth. But Come on! The Part of the Piano at the Bottom and the Top can be easily played on ONE piano, instead of 2.

[dogman15]

Each keyboard represents a separate MIDI channel. If you make two channels for one piano part so that the left and right hands can be panned to the left and right ears, each hand will be on a different piano. In essence, channel = keyboard. Same thing goes for guitars and stuff. Monophonic instruments like trumpets and flutes will double up even if they're on the same channel if more than one note is sounded at once.

[angel20434]

@RaldyV Well, there's only 2, not 3. A synthesizer - two keyboards

[RaldyV]

@angel20434 A Synthesizer is a Category of keyboards.

[cmgTFfan1084]

That was the most interesting song I have ever heard!

[dogman15]

I think, in some ways, it's epic. It goes through all these different styles, using so many different instruments. I had to think carefully to decide which instruments I wanted to film.

[freakomation]

@dogman15 0:28 - 1:00 is like the sonic 2 sound track.