Typist Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 ive been looking for one song specifically, searched for it on here and was unable to find it, so i was searching through some other websites. i thought perhaps that mabibeats should link some trusted midi websites or mp3 to midi converters Link to comment
🚩cookies1 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 (edited) ive been looking for one song specifically, searched for it on here and was unable to find it, so i was searching through some other websites. i thought perhaps that mabibeats should link some trusted midi websites or mp3 to midi converters MP3 to MIDI converters will give you a very bad time. They're very unreliable for numerous reasons and the result will very very often end up in a range from absolutely terrible to "what horrible sins have I committed by bringing you into this world?". You'll be spending a whole lot of time fixing the monstrosity of a MIDI you'll create with one, way more than if you had just tried to create whatever song you wanted by yourself even with no experience. For the suggestion of trusted MIDI websites... well, If we were to link to MIDI websites, we'd also have to consider questions like "what MIDI websites can be trusted?", "How do we ensure that they don't turn bad later and users give us the blame?", "What kind of MIDI websites?", and of course we'd have to make sure it's clear that we're not affiliated with the websites we link. That'd be a bunch of extra work when, frankly, it's very easy to find MIDIs. A quick google search of "-insert song name here- midi" will usually do the trick. Also... Incoming rant-ish opinion While MIDIs are a quick way of creating the MMLs you want, fluffing them into beginners faces or making it look like we believe MIDIs are the main way of making MMLs might give users the wrong idea as well as risk making beginners rely way too much on them. Not everyone uses MIDI; a lot of people transcribe/remake sheets or do it by ear, both ways that arguably can be seen as "better" since it's harder to take short-cuts and therefore can give the composer more musical experience, usually allows for more freedom and that composers usually have to put more work into their MML and thus grow to care more for the quality of it. Beginners who use MIDIs also tend to do it in a pretty straight-forward way without many personal "touches" or experimentation, which makes the likelihood of identical or near identical submissions (whose MML originates from the same MIDI) rather high. In a bunch of cases, MIDIs might also be a bad idea for beginners if it's a complex MIDI that'd give the beginner problems. This doesn't mean in any way that it's bad to use MIDIs or that it makes you less of a composer, God no, I use some MIDIs myself. It just might be a bad idea to make it seem like that's the endorsed main way of doing things, when it might not be right for everyone. That's just my take on it though Edited February 25, 2016 by cookies1 Link to comment
Typist Posted February 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 well i can certainly understand that, and i appreciate any kind of advice and pointers. i cant really say that im ready to add my own personal touch on the music as i am getting used to alot of how music is composed in MML and MIDI, i am only used to reading normal sheet music so i will probably have a hard time grasping how to compose using the 3ML editor. But hopefully over time i will learn to use it to its fullest potential. in the mean time i thank you for your advice Thank you for your quick response and advice Link to comment
🚩cookies1 Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 well i can certainly understand that, and i appreciate any kind of advice and pointers. i cant really say that im ready to add my own personal touch on the music as i am getting used to alot of how music is composed in MML and MIDI, i am only used to reading normal sheet music so i will probably have a hard time grasping how to compose using the 3ML editor. But hopefully over time i will learn to use it to its fullest potential. in the mean time i thank you for your advice Thank you for your quick response and advice Being able to read normal sheet music is an ability that'll really help you out when it comes to getting the hang of how to compose. Give it your best, keep learning and most importantly.. don't give up If you ever run into any issues or get stuck, you can search the forum/make a topic/message me or anyone else and ask questions. I'm sure plenty of people will gladly help you out and answer any questions you might have Best of luck! Link to comment
Typist Posted February 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 Ill make sure to do just that! Link to comment
zeugeney Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 The sheet music is often much easier to find, in these cases you can use PDFtoMusic its free to use and outputs the PDF sheet music to midi! I just found out about it and its pretty amazing! Give it a try Link to comment
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