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Midi Tutorial

January 23rd, 2003
v0.1
Score : 9.7 exceptional
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
Purpose: This tutorial is intended as an introduction to midi’s and sequencing and is supposed to be for newbies and those who have a bit more experience on the subject.

I disagree with mimifish on the part that this file is only suitable for a few Dinkers. The history part and the section on how to create your own midi may not attract any Dinker, but the part about the several ways you can use midi's in your D-mod (it comes with several procedures)is certainly something that can interest any D-mod author since this file explains more ways to call a midi then using the editor or add the simple playsound() procedure in a script.

Good: This tutorial a very in depth file and very suitable if you want to learn more on the subject.

Although not all the chapters might be of interest for the average D-mod author, there certainly are lots of interesting things, for example the explanation on what the abbreviaton midi stands for and how it was developed: a nice piece of history. It explains what a sequencer is, how it works and what kind of sequencers there are.

But the most interesting part can be found at the end of the tutorial, where the author explains how to use midi’s in a D-mod. Of course you can call a midi from withing the editor, and of course also from within a script, but the author also gives the procedures to stop a midi from playing, to disable or enable the screen attached midi, how to play a midi during loading screen, and how to loop a midi.

Overall: Very nice reading material with useful procedures.
August 25th, 2003
v0.1
Score : 7.5 good
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SimonK
Peasant He/Him Australia
 
This is a text file with a lot of technical information about midi files. For those who know nothing about what a midi file really is this information is both good and bad. Good in that it seeks to educate, bad in that there is a lot of jargon and I quickly reached information overload. To get the best from this file take time to absorb it.

The information about “how to use midis in DMODs” is of the most benefit, and it is straight from redink1’s useful things info (and credit is given for this). Personally I feel this should’ve been presented straight after the basic definitions of midi were given.

Having read this file a couple of times now, I have learnt some more about midi files, but have also realised I need to learn much, much more before I try to make my own.

7.5 out of 10.
June 20th, 2002
v0.1
Score : 8.0 good
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This is indeed a quite amazing file, however, it is useful only for very small portion of Dinkers. Most of us cannot get a hand on a midi instrument and we do not have enough music knowledge to do it. (My wife's major was piano performance and she had a hard time to do a midi. But that might because of her lack of computer skills. )

It provide a comprehensive instruction for making midi of your own and have information about using midi in a dmod. But I am just afraid that very few, if any, people will try to create their own midi by studying this file without previous knowledge for midi.