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Tisteca
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 Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: Is there a program that converts BAM to MIDI? |
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Is there?
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TwinHamster
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I believe Stephanie's PC Piano was supposed to have a feature that would let you do that, but I never got it to work.
Besides that, I don't think there's anything else that can do that. Sorry.  |
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If you're music-savvy, you could transcribe it from Notate into something like Noteworthy Composer.
Other than that, I don't think there is anything else. If its a plus, when someone is playing the game, it converts the BAM into a MIDI on the fly, playing the sounds with MIDI. However, what comes with that is BAM's 9 voice limit.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, unfortunately, your options are limited in that realm. However, if there are BAMs that you'd like MIDIs to, you can either ask the original composer (who would most likely be in this community) or if its public domain (like the ones that come with the OHR package), then I'm sure you can easily find them if you Google them.
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Wait a minute guys, don't we have a command line exe that does this? I could have sworn that this was how I got my BAM files fixed up in Anvil. The problem is that the converter does not recognize notes in terms of any given beat, only in terms of data. What it gives you as a MIDI is a horrible mess of notation with dotted quarter notes tied to dotted sixteenth notes, and things of this sort. From there, you practically have to rewrite it.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: bam2mid.exe |
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Actually, every time you play a bam in your game it is automatically converted into a midi file. They are however, a bit inconvenient to find. They end up in temporary names like playing.tmp/gamename.0-597.bmd
A long time ago, we wrote a command-line utility to convert a BAM into a MID but it has not been available as a pre-build exe for non-developers. I have just now fixed that.
Download http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/nightly/bam2mid.zip and let us know how it works for you. |
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Tisteca
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: bam2mid.exe |
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| James Paige wrote: | Actually, every time you play a bam in your game it is automatically converted into a midi file. They are however, a bit inconvenient to find. They end up in temporary names like playing.tmp/gamename.0-597.bmd
A long time ago, we wrote a command-line utility to convert a BAM into a MID but it has not been available as a pre-build exe for non-developers. I have just now fixed that.
Download http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/nightly/bam2mid.zip and let us know how it works for you. |
Since you said "a long time ago", I tried compiling it with Quickbasic. Unfortunately, there were a lot of error messages. |
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: bam2mid.exe |
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| Tisteca wrote: |
Since you said "a long time ago", I tried compiling it with Quickbasic. Unfortunately, there were a lot of error messages. |
No, not that long ago. :)
There never has been midi support in the QB version |
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Tisteca
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: bam2mid.exe |
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| James Paige wrote: | | Tisteca wrote: |
Since you said "a long time ago", I tried compiling it with Quickbasic. Unfortunately, there were a lot of error messages. |
No, not that long ago. 
There never has been midi support in the QB version |
Okay, trying Freebasic...
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc bam2mid.bas
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x31c): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x3fc): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x4f2): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc b2m.bas
b2m.o:fake:(.text+0x14b): undefined reference to `BAM2MID@12' |
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: bam2mid.exe |
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| Tisteca wrote: | Okay, trying Freebasic...
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc bam2mid.bas
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x31c): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x3fc): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x4f2): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc b2m.bas
b2m.o:fake:(.text+0x14b): undefined reference to `BAM2MID@12' |
I was about to explain that you are simply supposed to run make-bam2mid.bat, just like it says in the included bam2mid.txt file, and then I was going to ask why you are so keen to compile it yourself when there is a pre-build exe in the zip file....
when I discovered that BOTH the make-bam2mid.bat file for compiling AND the pre-built bam2mid.exe are MISSING from the download! How clumsy of me!
I have fixed the problem. Please redownload http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/nightly/bam2mid.zip |
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Tisteca
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| Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: bam2mid.exe |
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| James Paige wrote: | | Tisteca wrote: | Okay, trying Freebasic...
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc bam2mid.bas
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x31c): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x3fc): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
bam2mid.o:fake:(.text+0x4f2): undefined reference to `DEBUG@4'
C:\Program Files\FreeBASIC>fbc b2m.bas
b2m.o:fake:(.text+0x14b): undefined reference to `BAM2MID@12' |
I was about to explain that you are simply supposed to run make-bam2mid.bat, just like it says in the included bam2mid.txt file, and then I was going to ask why you are so keen to compile it yourself when there is a pre-build exe in the zip file....
when I discovered that BOTH the make-bam2mid.bat file for compiling AND the pre-built bam2mid.exe are MISSING from the download! How clumsy of me!
I have fixed the problem. Please redownload http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/nightly/bam2mid.zip |
Cue the FF victory theme. It worked. Thanks. |
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Setu_Firestorm wrote: | | I can't imagine that converting from BAM to MIDI will reap as rich results as the original MIDI before the 9-voice polyphony of BAM chops it up. |
Of course not, but this util is useful for those BAM files that are original compositions (for which no MID original ever existed) |
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