by Jaybot » Nov 8, 2001 @ 4:34am
'Whoever asked, do you really not know what 12 key midi refers to? Or just kidding?'<br><br>No, I was dead serious. If you honestly think that 12 key midi means something then you're wrong.<br><br>Wait, lemme look it up in the Harvard Dictionary of music.... nope. Wait, lemme check the Digital Music Dictionary, nope still not there. Well, lemme try a search on yahoo or google.... nope.. oh wait, a program titled 'Finetuned 12-Key Styles' (which has nothing to do with MIDI, has more to do with jazz composition/transposition)......nope, nothing with 12 key midi together.<br><br>12 key midi can mean anything, I don't know if you're reffering to the MIDI was in twelve different key signatures, which covers all of the noraml major and minor keys for tonal music; or if you're referring to the msuci was all within 12 'keys' on a keyboard instrument, emaning it would be withing one octave of a chromatic scale, which i highhly doubt. Or, you could have been reffering to 12-tone music in some obscure way, but I really don't think the music of Schoenberg or Webern is going to find it's way into a commercial game, ever. Or, were you referring to that the MIDI files could only play 12 'keys' or instruments at once? which would actually be pretty nice, comparable to any mod file that is using 4-8 channels with about 32 instrument samples. Or did you mean that the song was limited to only playing 12 'keys'-meaning rythmic notes on a keyboard or something total, making the song repeated after 3 measure of 4/4/ or 4 measure of 3/4 (or 2 measures of 6/8 etc. depending on the length of the notes of course), making the song REALLY repetitive? Or possibly that you meant there are only 12 melodic notes total, so that the song is is limited to only 12 notes divided by the number of instruments (e.g. the piano has 6 notes the drums has two instruments (snare and bass) and the bass has 4 notes) thus making a very limited chord structure to work within? Or maybe this is some L337 term that they don't tell us about in the music field, but only allow certain individuals, who play video games and think they are smart, know about.<br><br>Or did you just take the number 12 (because you heard it in your music appreciation class a few times) and threw it together with MIDI, because youve heard that games use MIDI for music? (which I can guarantee SimCity is not using MIDI as there is no onboard MIDI hardware, and a decent sounding MIDI software table would make the game about 5-30MB larger, so I'm guessing its a mod file or looped wavs on a playlist).<br><br>Don't make terms up to sound smart. And don't try to justify your ridiculous lableing, you can't undermine me.<br><br>
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