Japanese Midi Pack
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This pack contains 110 midi’s for use in D-mods.
Although there is variety in the midi’s (such as midi’s for quiet situations, for fights, and for eerie caves) and the midi's will suit almost any D-mod, and although there are also some midi’s that, although they sound alike, vary in speed (such as 13.mid, 14.mid and 15.mid where the first one is the slow version and the last one the fast version) there is overall not that much variety.
Most midi’s from this pack sound a lot like each other, perhaps because they are all from the same kind of games and/or from the same artist (there is no information about this pack in a readme.txt).
Some stand out though, in one way or another.
Bare.mid is real funny, and hare.mid resembles bare.mid a lot, etude.mid resembles the classic bumble bee a lot, and koya.mid is also a familiar tune.
Min’you_88.mid, min’you_gm.mid, and robotown.mid are quite cheerful, and those that are different but nice as well are dhz.mid, eiga.mid, sitsuren.mid, and yosei.mid.
Overall a midi’s pack that does not offer that many different midi’s, but at least some midi’s to use in a D-mod.
Although there is variety in the midi’s (such as midi’s for quiet situations, for fights, and for eerie caves) and the midi's will suit almost any D-mod, and although there are also some midi’s that, although they sound alike, vary in speed (such as 13.mid, 14.mid and 15.mid where the first one is the slow version and the last one the fast version) there is overall not that much variety.
Most midi’s from this pack sound a lot like each other, perhaps because they are all from the same kind of games and/or from the same artist (there is no information about this pack in a readme.txt).
Some stand out though, in one way or another.
Bare.mid is real funny, and hare.mid resembles bare.mid a lot, etude.mid resembles the classic bumble bee a lot, and koya.mid is also a familiar tune.
Min’you_88.mid, min’you_gm.mid, and robotown.mid are quite cheerful, and those that are different but nice as well are dhz.mid, eiga.mid, sitsuren.mid, and yosei.mid.
Overall a midi’s pack that does not offer that many different midi’s, but at least some midi’s to use in a D-mod.
Ahh, another Japaneese Midi pack...
I think that all Japaneese midis are great and this one is no exception. The midis in this pack are very well put together and composed. I feel that RPGMinerva has done them very well
Strengths
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I feel that they have been composed excellently and really show how good japaneese midis can really get. I think that they have been timed very well to make it so they have a small download time. These are good midis for D-MODS not only because of the small download time but the quality that has been acheived in the small tracks themselves. Well done to RPGMinerva on this great Japaneese midi pack
Weaknesses
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I do feel that the small download time is a good feature but also bad, because they are small tracks and none of them can be used in a long travelling part of a D-MOD, which is pretty sad. I think that another bad point is that the midis themselves have not actually been made by RPGMinerva, and have been taken straight from a website. A bad thing about this is there is no link to the resources used. This would have been good to check if they actually are public domain midi compositions
Overall
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Overall I think that this is a great midi pack and if you want some exciting short bursts of music this is the thing for you.
Total 7.8
Grade B
End comment "Want a good example of good Japaneese midis? Then download this"
I think that all Japaneese midis are great and this one is no exception. The midis in this pack are very well put together and composed. I feel that RPGMinerva has done them very well
Strengths
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I feel that they have been composed excellently and really show how good japaneese midis can really get. I think that they have been timed very well to make it so they have a small download time. These are good midis for D-MODS not only because of the small download time but the quality that has been acheived in the small tracks themselves. Well done to RPGMinerva on this great Japaneese midi pack
Weaknesses
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I do feel that the small download time is a good feature but also bad, because they are small tracks and none of them can be used in a long travelling part of a D-MOD, which is pretty sad. I think that another bad point is that the midis themselves have not actually been made by RPGMinerva, and have been taken straight from a website. A bad thing about this is there is no link to the resources used. This would have been good to check if they actually are public domain midi compositions
Overall
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Overall I think that this is a great midi pack and if you want some exciting short bursts of music this is the thing for you.
Total 7.8
Grade B
End comment "Want a good example of good Japaneese midis? Then download this"
Back in the late 90's while the West was still in the thrall of Sound Blaster-powered FM farts, or perhaps AWE32 sample-based playback for the richer PC users out there, Japan was undergoing a MIDI revolution. With the release of the Sound Canvas line of products by Roland, high-quality General MIDI playback was available at a relatively affordable price, providing composers with their very own band-in-a-box, or perhaps a personal orchestra to conduct, far surpassing the typical PCI and ISA sound cards of the time.
The Japanese didn't stop there, however. With the Sound Canvas came an expanded General MIDI specification known as "GS", with Yamaha following suit with their own "XG" spec. These expanded specs allowed for even more instruments, as well as the possibility of applying reverb and chorus effects. During this era, Roland sold GS MIDI files on floppy disks and later on, CDs containing renditions usually of pop songs which could sometimes be played back on karaoke machines. Later on, an online community of composers making original tracks emerged, with users able to download compositions directly to their PC to play back on capable devices, some of which ended up in the freeware Dink release while Seth was hurriedly learning Japanese.
Whether as a consequence of some aspect of Japanese culture that is difficult for the rest of the world to understand, or simply due to the changing MIDI landscape resulting in composers not wanting their tunes played out of the horrid-sounding GS Wavetable Synthesizer included with every variant of Windows, most of the files from this era are today extremely difficult to find, if not unobtainable. The low existing scores suggest the latter, as most people won't have an SC-88 lying around to listen to them as intended.
Although most of the other MIDI packs on this site are geared around suitability for D-modding, to judge this pack by that same metric would be to completely ignore its historical value, as many of the included compositions would otherwise be completely lost to the sands of time were it not for the efforts of the somewhat mysterious uploader. Thank you RPGMinerva, whoever you are.
The Japanese didn't stop there, however. With the Sound Canvas came an expanded General MIDI specification known as "GS", with Yamaha following suit with their own "XG" spec. These expanded specs allowed for even more instruments, as well as the possibility of applying reverb and chorus effects. During this era, Roland sold GS MIDI files on floppy disks and later on, CDs containing renditions usually of pop songs which could sometimes be played back on karaoke machines. Later on, an online community of composers making original tracks emerged, with users able to download compositions directly to their PC to play back on capable devices, some of which ended up in the freeware Dink release while Seth was hurriedly learning Japanese.
Whether as a consequence of some aspect of Japanese culture that is difficult for the rest of the world to understand, or simply due to the changing MIDI landscape resulting in composers not wanting their tunes played out of the horrid-sounding GS Wavetable Synthesizer included with every variant of Windows, most of the files from this era are today extremely difficult to find, if not unobtainable. The low existing scores suggest the latter, as most people won't have an SC-88 lying around to listen to them as intended.
Although most of the other MIDI packs on this site are geared around suitability for D-modding, to judge this pack by that same metric would be to completely ignore its historical value, as many of the included compositions would otherwise be completely lost to the sands of time were it not for the efforts of the somewhat mysterious uploader. Thank you RPGMinerva, whoever you are.
A bunch of midis from an undisclosed website. What's the copyright policy of these? Who knows. I mean the chances of anyone caring about you using some ancient midi in a dmod is very close to nil, but it's always nice to have permission.
For just a collection of midis composed by other people, this is not even a good collection. I listened to them all and there wasn't a single one I'd absolutely want to use in my own games. Some decent ones, but nothing outstanding. You can quickly get so many midis from the internet you'll never have the time to listen to them all, so the main benefit of a pack like this would be for the author to have curated the selection so it's full of bangers. That's not the case here, and I feel going through these was more trouble than it's worth.
For just a collection of midis composed by other people, this is not even a good collection. I listened to them all and there wasn't a single one I'd absolutely want to use in my own games. Some decent ones, but nothing outstanding. You can quickly get so many midis from the internet you'll never have the time to listen to them all, so the main benefit of a pack like this would be for the author to have curated the selection so it's full of bangers. That's not the case here, and I feel going through these was more trouble than it's worth.
A lot of midis and no description file. Bad! Download and listen at your own peril. If you like Japanese game music then this may well be a pack for you. I don't. I didn't like it. And I'm not going to go thru each track either. 5 were enough, and none were good.
4 out of 10
4 out of 10
