Gingeas | Black MIDI: What 1 million notes look like (Pianofall - Night of Nights) @gingeas | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 13 hours ago
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
Night of Nights (Flowering Nights) 1.1 / 1.2 million
Now with note counter. Read below for tech jargon about this vid!

Pianofall is a Unity-based MIDI player revolving around spawning colourful blocks every time a note is played in a MIDI; similar to Synthesia except this player is subject to the gravity of the notes after spawning/generation.
Download this wonderful MIDI player here!
youtube.com/watch?v=i-dLHLyIOOw

==Editing Notes==
My last video containing 24,000 notes already filled up a lot of the screen. I had to physically zoom out of Pianofall in order for this to remotely work - but even then, 1.1 million notes is just way too much to visualize on the screen, so it seems I've way broken the limit for practical Pianofall usage. This Night of Nights black MIDI is based on the earlier one I uploaded one month ago - there are two versions of it, both extremely similar: the 1.1 million note one (youtube.com/watch?v=fVxEdVqWGuI) and the 1.2 million one which is the same but has a cooler sounding ending - the one I used (youtube.com/watch?v=URcNS5yiEWI).

It took me more than week of on-and-off playing around with the program, and after several crashes, I managed to render this monster of a MIDI in Pianofall. At first, I used the same settings as the 24,000 note Night of Nights video (all notes create a block, max 50,000 blocks on screen), but after several crashes I learned my lesson (nobody should run a million note MIDI at those settings - it was completely my fault!). Luckily Ste-Art was smart enough to create efficient rendering modes for these kinds of MIDIs ("Doubles Reduction mode"). I used "Smart - 2 Levels" mode, which means that if the current frame generates less than 660 notes instantly (as in less than 660 notes "pop into existence"), then nothing else happens. However, if there are more than 660 notes generated in that frame, then a note (where "note" is one of the 127 regions of the video that can create a block) can only generate a single block every millisecond. That means that doubles reduction mode allows a single "note" to only create up to 1000 notes per second (however if all 127 keys create notes at the max rate under Doubles Reduction, then it'd be 127,000 notes per second max throughout the entire MIDI). This singlehandedly stopped the crashing of the program. The "crash point" of the MIDI -- 2:05 -- created about 300,000 notes in the span of like a second. Insane stuff. That means ~300,000 blocks had to be generated during the entire crash point. Thank you, Doubles Reduction mode.

The maximum block limit of the program is 50,000, meaning that only 50,000 block objects can be seen on the screen at a single time. Any other blocks after 50,000 make old blocks disappear off the screen. This is even better if the blocks fall off the screen. However, at 2:05, so many notes were being generated, the blocks were essentially being destroyed as they were created, hence why the blocks seem to be disappearing -- the block limit was cleaning up notes left and right at that point in the MIDI. During rendering, the program used up to 13 GB of RAM due to the sheer number of blocks being created. But it was worth it. Over a day of rendering nonstop and this beauty came out.

I purposely made the audio sounds jarring to the ear - this MIDI is absolutely insane and as such, slight earrapes were intentional.

This MIDI was made by Ryan TTC, one of the most influental people who helped create the black MIDI following on YouTube. This is one of the most famous black MIDIs out there, and plays well with the original roots of Black MIDI. He does not upload as much nowadays due to hard studies in college/university, but he occasionally checks up on the community. Here is his channel.
youtube.com/user/thetrustedcomputer

SoundFont: Kryo Keys II Concert Grand
SoundFont made by Frozen Snow and Keppy Studios
youtube.com/channel/UCJeqODojIv4TdeHcBfHJRnA
http://frozensnowproductions.com

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
MIDI File Name: Night of Nights 1 million remix end.mid
MIDI Size: 9.41 MB
MIDI Note Count: 1,234,339
MIDI Program: Pianofall
Audio Source: Keppy's MIDI Converter (github.com/KaleidonKep99/Keppys-MIDI-Converter)
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