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Converting files as MIDI? Posted: 2013-01-09 02:43 Reply | Quote
Zanny77

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I'm trying to make 8-bit songs with Famitracker to put into a Pokemon FireRed hack someone is working on. I'm wondering, can I convert the songs I make in Famitracker into MIDIs? I'm not entirely sure how they work, but I need the music file to be a MIDI file. Thanks
RE: Converting files as MIDI? Posted: 2013-01-09 05:34 Reply | Quote
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Zanny77 wrote:
I'm trying to make 8-bit songs with Famitracker to put into a Pokemon FireRed hack someone is working on. I'm wondering, can I convert the songs I make in Famitracker into MIDIs? I'm not entirely sure how they work, but I need the music file to be a MIDI file. Thanks


You can export to .nsf then convert to midi using nsf2midi. However, it obviously won't sound anything like the original song, since there's no chiptune instruments in the MIDI. Most people use such a midi for visualizers or automating the addition of more instruments outside of Famitracker.
Posted: 2013-01-09 09:55  (Last Edited: 2013-01-09 09:57) Reply | Quote
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Famitracker doesn't have a midi file exporter, but you can have it send standard midi note signals during playback.

You can connect that to a midi sequencer, and record the midi events there while playing back in Famitracker. Probably you'd want to quantize to the row frequency afterward.

Not the most convenient solution, but it can work, and you might have a better correspondence between notes than NSF2MIDI, which can be a bit spotty.
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Yeah these are two possible options, but if you need MIDI as the target format then it's probably a lot more convenient to use a MIDI editor for composing the songs, even if it's gonna end up as 8-bit songs. You'd need to edit the files anyway to suit the target player.
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