Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I decided to edit some more of Mario Kart DS's music that I converted to MIDI a while back with VGMTrans, most of which are the game's retro grand prix tracks. GCN Luigi Circuit uses two samples for the whistle instrument, with one sounding like a slide was baked into the sample itself while the other didn't. Unlike the chord stabs in Mushroom Ridge, I wasn't able to approximate the slide for the whistle, so I had that sliding sample play at the correct notes in the converted MIDI. The instruments in Yoshi Falls were interesting. The "bass" in the song is actually two percussion samples that's being played like a bass instrument, and the drums are similar to what was used in Desert Hills. For the converted MIDI, I ended up correcting the bass notes and improvising the percussion (though one of the instruments I used for the bass will sound off if played with another soundfont). As I've said in a previous video, these definitely won't get accepted to VGMusic.org since they were converted from Nintendo DS 2SF files and then heavily altered afterwards, though I have no interest in submitting to that site anyway.
Songs were originally composed by Shinobu Tanaka, Kenta Nagata, Soyo Oka, Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunga, and Minako Hamano.
Soundfont used: GeneralUserGS by S. Christian Collins, played via VirtualMIDISynth.
Time stamps:
00:00 - Airship Fortress
02:38 - N64 Choco Mountain
05:46 - Delfino Square
08:08 - Figure-8 Circuit
10:38 - N64 Frappe Snowland
12:56 - SNES Koopa Beach 2
14:23 - GCN Luigi Circuit
16:59 - GCN Mushroom Bridge
19:25 - Race Results
21:09 - GBA Sky Garden
22:34 - Tick Tock Clock
24:21 - Time Trial Results
25:11 - Yoshi Falls
I decided to edit some more of Mario Kart DS's music that I converted to MIDI a while back with VGMTrans, most of which are the game's retro grand prix tracks. GCN Luigi Circuit uses two samples for the whistle instrument, with one sounding like a slide was baked into the sample itself while the other didn't. Unlike the chord stabs in Mushroom Ridge, I wasn't able to approximate the slide for the whistle, so I had that sliding sample play at the correct notes in the converted MIDI. The instruments in Yoshi Falls were interesting. The "bass" in the song is actually two percussion samples that's being played like a bass instrument, and the drums are similar to what was used in Desert Hills. For the converted MIDI, I ended up correcting the bass notes and improvising the percussion (though one of the instruments I used for the bass will sound off if played with another soundfont). As I've said in a previous video, these definitely won't get accepted to VGMusic.org since they were converted from Nintendo DS 2SF files and then heavily altered afterwards, though I have no interest in submitting to that site anyway.
Songs were originally composed by Shinobu Tanaka, Kenta Nagata, Soyo Oka, Kenichi Nishimaki, Masanobu Matsunga, and Minako Hamano.
Soundfont used: GeneralUserGS by S. Christian Collins, played via VirtualMIDISynth.
Time stamps:
00:00 - Airship Fortress
02:38 - N64 Choco Mountain
05:46 - Delfino Square
08:08 - Figure-8 Circuit
10:38 - N64 Frappe Snowland
12:56 - SNES Koopa Beach 2
14:23 - GCN Luigi Circuit
16:59 - GCN Mushroom Bridge
19:25 - Race Results
21:09 - GBA Sky Garden
22:34 - Tick Tock Clock
24:21 - Time Trial Results
25:11 - Yoshi Falls
