Death to .midi!
Why do you hate midi so much? I don't like it, but it pretty usefull some ways lol
Life to 50mb DMODs and 8mb Internet!
Ah, giving the finger to the dial-up users... how touching.
Silly foolbag, .wavs will kill us all. There is probably a rather large number of Dinkers using dial-up.
I have ADSL, but after d/ling 200megs the speed decreases to 28k/s, which is fine for me.
I love .midi, it's small widely available, easy to make and doesn't sound that bad... (Even though other formats do sound better)
Indeed, midi's not so bad - the worst thing that can happen is that the tune isn't your taste, but you don't risk downloading some weird funkeh vocal song that no-one likes except the author 
midis give a good quality to size whats the word... um.. comparison no... scale? no no no.. Can someone help me out here 
I feel stupid forgeting the word
I feel stupid forgeting the word
dang you people using hardware accelerated 2d and even going beyond 16 colors.. !!11
seriously though, wavs are pervertedly big, midis are great, but they've done their thing, oggs are small and nice for music.
the "think of us modem-users"-card has been pulled way too many times, complain to the few companies that do not provide the norm that is broadband.
seriously though, wavs are pervertedly big, midis are great, but they've done their thing, oggs are small and nice for music.
the "think of us modem-users"-card has been pulled way too many times, complain to the few companies that do not provide the norm that is broadband.
Ratio
Midis are so so. The sound quality sucks, but what are you gonna do?
Midis are so so. The sound quality sucks, but what are you gonna do?
Actually no, you're just too retro to change 
Open your minds people!
Open your minds people!I'm not retro. If I had a choice I'd use .it module music!
And I'm too retro to wait 3 minutes for a song to load. 
Actually in XP the loading times for .midi are longer than the loading times for .wav, in Dink that is. Some engine bug 
Another thing I didn't think to mention earlier: It seems much easier to stumble across decent, free midi music online than it is to find good .wav tunes. We also have few (like two or three) people in the community that compose midis. Noone that I know around here makes .wav-based music.
Download 'Darkspace Derelict' by Eldron
people here who make their own midi or wavs are as rare as those who make their own full sets of graphics.
in my own small and humble opinion, I think it's quite bad for quality to just take any random online found midi to put in a dmod.
in my own small and humble opinion, I think it's quite bad for quality to just take any random online found midi to put in a dmod.
"Download Darkspace Derelict by Eldron"
Your point being? Wow, we're taking a real step forward in original sound and graphics... oh wait... this unfinished D-Mod was released several years ago!
"I think it's quite bad for quality to just take any random online found midi to put in a dmod."
Wow, you're brilliant. I do think it would be better for quality if He or She Who Hunts For Midis listened to a good variety and contemplated what would fit. Some people are capable of that... if I remember correctly, redink1 found a few good Midi suppliers while building Initiation, and I seem to remember the music from that being good. Or at least, better than "Hey look everyone it's Chrono Trigger/FF7 music I'm real creative pour me a cup of beans!"
Your point being? Wow, we're taking a real step forward in original sound and graphics... oh wait... this unfinished D-Mod was released several years ago!
"I think it's quite bad for quality to just take any random online found midi to put in a dmod."
Wow, you're brilliant. I do think it would be better for quality if He or She Who Hunts For Midis listened to a good variety and contemplated what would fit. Some people are capable of that... if I remember correctly, redink1 found a few good Midi suppliers while building Initiation, and I seem to remember the music from that being good. Or at least, better than "Hey look everyone it's Chrono Trigger/FF7 music I'm real creative pour me a cup of beans!"
I think I screened a few thousand midis for Initiation... finding music that matches what you're going for is very difficult.
Obviously if you're multitalented and industrious enough to produce your own music then you're going to end up with more distinctive results. The same goes for the graphics. Of course, why stop there? Make your own game engine that's more ideally suited to your vision than anything else out there. If you can do all that in any kind of reasonable time frame then I'm truly envious of you, not least because you're probably about to sell it for big pocket money.
For lesser beings like me, midi music is extremely useful. It's availiable, it's applicable (Final Fantasy music is overapplied because it's easy to apply, and you know what to put where to achieve a particular mood if you're a lazy sod), it's doesn't exclude the player (you can't assume people have broadband - things get better every year, but some areas just can't get it yet), which pretty much makes it better than wav in every respect apart from audio quality. Can you even attach wav sounds to maps in Dinkedit? It doesn't really matter how much you dislike midi music, as far as Dink is concerned midi won't go away.
Of course, moving away from Dink (this is the off-topic section, after all), anyone with a website that plays a midi file really does deserve to die in a slow and excruciatingly painful manner, possibly involving power lines and sombreros. So I agree
For lesser beings like me, midi music is extremely useful. It's availiable, it's applicable (Final Fantasy music is overapplied because it's easy to apply, and you know what to put where to achieve a particular mood if you're a lazy sod), it's doesn't exclude the player (you can't assume people have broadband - things get better every year, but some areas just can't get it yet), which pretty much makes it better than wav in every respect apart from audio quality. Can you even attach wav sounds to maps in Dinkedit? It doesn't really matter how much you dislike midi music, as far as Dink is concerned midi won't go away.
Of course, moving away from Dink (this is the off-topic section, after all), anyone with a website that plays a midi file really does deserve to die in a slow and excruciatingly painful manner, possibly involving power lines and sombreros. So I agree
Unfortunately enough I'm an artist by profession, but a programmer too, so I can and do write my own engine, and music isn't something unfamiliar too.
guess I'm just multitalented or whatever you call it.
guess I'm just multitalented or whatever you call it.
I agree with Arik with that part with the website.I mean WHO LIKES TO HEAR MIDI'S ON A WEBSITE.Especialy the ones with black or some freaky purple background and neon letters.Or even better-with some picture tiled in the background....sheesh
But i also like to say,that sometimes it gets me frustrated, that there are midis in DMODS that absolutely don't fit there. Like "i'm the scatman" and other pop classics.But this is out of the question,the midi format has nothing to do with CHOOSING the right music for your DMOD.I think that midi music fits Dink.I can't imagine it with real music,it would be just not the same,espiacialy if you add lyrics.
Anyways midis are quite useful for me,because in midis you can clearly hear when wich instrument joins in,so i think midis are useful in helping covering songs.Me and my bass player listen to midis of the songs we play and it's helpfull...
But i also like to say,that sometimes it gets me frustrated, that there are midis in DMODS that absolutely don't fit there. Like "i'm the scatman" and other pop classics.But this is out of the question,the midi format has nothing to do with CHOOSING the right music for your DMOD.I think that midi music fits Dink.I can't imagine it with real music,it would be just not the same,espiacialy if you add lyrics.
Anyways midis are quite useful for me,because in midis you can clearly hear when wich instrument joins in,so i think midis are useful in helping covering songs.Me and my bass player listen to midis of the songs we play and it's helpfull...
Like "i'm the scatman" and other pop classics.
Yeah, I put that in just to piss you off. Don't you feel special?
Yeah, I put that in just to piss you off. Don't you feel special?
I hate too many wav's, it makes the game take forever too load.
Also, I usually get sick of the music and just turn the volume off after a while.
It would be nice to have a lil' button though,one that could turn music on or off during game play.
Also, I usually get sick of the music and just turn the volume off after a while.
It would be nice to have a lil' button though,one that could turn music on or off during game play.
I put that in ... does that mean you've got some sort of DMOD planned? 
No... it just means I foresaw the future and how it would annoy RS, and thusly, added "scatman" to my only dmod.
Makes sense.
I'm not... I'm just having a little fun at your expense.
"Like "i'm the scatman" and other pop classics.
Yeah, I put that in just to piss you off. Don't you feel special?"
Hey Scatman was fun...the first time you heard it...after that you just wanted to shoot whoever made the song and put it in a D-Mod.
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
Yeah, I put that in just to piss you off. Don't you feel special?"
Hey Scatman was fun...the first time you heard it...after that you just wanted to shoot whoever made the song and put it in a D-Mod.
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
