Castle Paradox

Calehay · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject: Question about Notate.exe

Does it have any volume controls or tempo controls?I have a really nice opening that I would like to put in my game, but the right BPM is like a dotted sixteenth note. If Notate does not, is there any free and space-condensed (able to put on a floppy) MIDI programs that don't required a keyboard?

HaveWeLostOurWay · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

check out stephanies pc piano at hamster republic, i havent really used it but it seems to work better than notate
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Me · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

Notate has no tempo-adjusting controls, nor does it have volume control over individual tracks. In fact, BAM (the format the music is stored in) has no dynamics control (that is, you can't change the volume of a track).
If you want to adjust these better (which you obviously do, and should), grab Noteworthy Composer. It's a MIDI-composing program, which is great because you can then use MIDI2BAM.exe to convert the MIDIs you create into BAMs. Also, it's only an 836 K file, which should fit just fine on a floppy disk.

Linkage: http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/

Click "Try it" and download the evaluation version. All the evaluation version limits is the number of times you can save a file in .NWC format, and since you are going to be saving in .MID, that should present no obstacle.

When making MIDIs to convert to BAM, keep in mind a few things:
-BAM only has nine voices to work with. That's nine notes played at once, no more.
-Percussion is severly limited: while MIDI has a dedicated drum track, BAM is basically stuck with the "shotgun" and "melodic tom" sounds.
-BAM has, as I said before, no volume control. Play around and figure out which voices are louder/softer, and use them accordingly.

The advantage of making MIDIs first is that you CAN adjust the tempo, and MIDI2BAM will change the lengths of the notes in the BAM file so that the BAM is basically at the same tempo as the MIDI.

Happy composing!
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Calehay · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:16 am Post subject: Thanks!

Thanks a lot for the info. I'm going to download it and see how it works.