shizohal (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I hadn't seen this video yet. It's my first time hearing the piece too, and your videos and visualizations are really a great way to be introduced to new music.

smalin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My process is completely different: I use custom software to render frames, record the audio separately, and put the movie together in Adobe Premier. MAMPlayer can send out the MIDI it's playing on any available device, so the solution might be to send it to something that would play the right instruments. But I actually don't know; I don't have much experience using this software these days.

melman74b (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is awesome stuff right here. I tried using your software against some of my own MIDI sequences of Bach organ music, along with the Jeux D'Orgue soundfont, and it seems that no matter what instruments I set them up with in Cakewalk Sonar when I save the sequence in native MIDI, they all come out as Grand Piano. Even other General MIDI instruments (Bank 0) sound as Grand Piano. Even when MS Media Player plays them with the GM instruments. How did you do this one? Demux and remux?

robertgift (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wow!Sounds so good.Not perfect as I would expect if electronic. Even the pictured notes reveal imperfection.The chiff is not consistent either - just as in a real pipe organ.As an organist, I feel threatened.Now if you could do Max Reger's opus 135b fugue!I am having such difficulty with it.And Reger's Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue.And Bach's marvelous Gigue Fugue!Thank you.

smalin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

>Who is the organist?Alas, there is no organist; I played the parts on a MIDI keyboard, many years ago.>Love the "chiff" of the pipes.Sorry, no pipes, either --- at least, not live ones (it's a sampled instrument).

robertgift (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Who is the excellent organist?Love the "chiff" of the pipes.What a great way to visually portray what we're hearing.Thank you, smalin.

ByrdWhiteMovie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Some of the castle scenes in Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest, where ever you lived) had walking music that sounded very similar. I'm pretty sure it wasn't actual Bach, or anything nearly so complex; but the trills & flares & blue-blooded fan-fare where all emulated.

Wololo21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

ET!!

smalin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

An bunch of monkeys, typing randomly into a notation program? They might have gotten around to this after they'd typed all the works of Shakespeare.

mepidoprimer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Having discarded the smallest chance of this being composed by any human being (ever!) I suggest several alternatives: (1) Made by one million computers by NASA, FBI and NSA working for 100 years (2) Made by a team of extraterrestrians and sent to Earth by a space probe (3) As humankind didn't pay attention to the Bible, the prophets, His son, etc God himself sent His own music... Any other suggestion, youtubers?