SomethingUnreal | SC-88Pro attempts to play "Necrofantasia - All Hell Freezes Over" (MIDI) @SomethingUnreal | Uploaded 11 years ago | Updated 8 hours ago
Should be named "Whole Synth Freezes Over".
This is the Roland Sound Canvas 88Pro trying to play this ludicrous adaptation of Yukari and Ran Yakumo's themes, "Necrofantasia" and "Necro-Fantasy" (from the game Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom).
There are over 166,000 notes in this MIDI file, and their speed peaks at over 3x the bandwidth of MIDI hardware, which results in inevitable playback slowdowns, but the synth has its own additional troubles and becomes totally unresponsive.
The MIDI file (not created by me) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ylgga5zzobafbe8
Should be named "Whole Synth Freezes Over".
This is the Roland Sound Canvas 88Pro trying to play this ludicrous adaptation of Yukari and Ran Yakumo's themes, "Necrofantasia" and "Necro-Fantasy" (from the game Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom).
There are over 166,000 notes in this MIDI file, and their speed peaks at over 3x the bandwidth of MIDI hardware, which results in inevitable playback slowdowns, but the synth has its own additional troubles and becomes totally unresponsive.
The MIDI file (not created by me) can be downloaded from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ylgga5zzobafbe8
![DIY Printer P7: Printing for the first time! [50 FPS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hEWN4o65riM/hqdefault.jpg "DIY Printer P7: Printing for the first time! [50 FPS]
It actually works! Well, its first ever print-out could certainly do with some improvements, but to be honest, Im happy its even intelligible at all! Part 7 in my super-basic, Arduino-controlled printer project.
It should be better when I at least have a stable and level tray for the paper (or whatever) to sit on. I have an idea for an alternative to a heavy sheet of steel, which you should be able to see in the next video. Perhaps the PSU fan will have arrived by then, too...
Also, enjoy the in-sync 50 FPS if you can! That pen flicks back and forth at stupid speeds, so a high frame rate is actually useful here.")
![[MIDI] The River (Ghosts Of Paraguay) [SC-88Pro]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hrC4oVdGShk/hqdefault.jpg "[MIDI] The River (Ghosts Of Paraguay) [SC-88Pro]
I tried to remake my favourite liquid dubstep song for the ever-aging Roland SC-88Pro synth (18 this year!), complete with fancy percussion and a reversed piano effect, because I wanted a challenge. I actually started this in August 2014, got it about 40% done and then lost motivation, and finished it off in the last week.
The top-left is the 88Ps display, the text below it is every MIDI message (displayed by Bawami, my own MIDI soft-synth), and the background is a view of most of the notes (top part - unfortunately, I couldnt capture the view of all 128 MIDI notes) and all control changes (bottom part). Im trying something a little different this time - a smoothly-scrolling piano roll made possible by Sekaiju (the MIDI editor program)s ability to print the pianoroll view. I used a virtual printer driver (PDFCreator) to print the pianoroll to a series of images, batch-crop (FSViewer) and stitch them together (IrfanView), and then simply pan it at the right speed on the video editor.
This is my new biggest MIDI yet, both in duration and file size (138 KB) thanks to those thousands of expression changes to get the reversed piano effect (simply changing the pianos attack time did not sound good).
I am working on a dedicated page on my web site for hosting all MIDIs Ive made for the SC-88 Pro synth and any modified, general-purpose versions which I made to make it sound at least acceptable on other synths. Please be aware that it is often very tedious (and sometimes, downright impossible) for me to make simplified versions which sound good, so I dont intend to make them often. The page will also show the various features of the synth used by each MIDI, for any curious people like myself who find that stuff interesting. Itll also act as a warning for how bad the MIDI will sound if played on a different synth, since some of my MIDIs are basically built around the 88P.
EDIT: Its done! You can download all of my SC-88Pro MIDIs here:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/88pmidi/
I have a lot of MIDIs started but very little motivation to finish them recently. Among them are Verge (Shimamiya Eiko), Borderland (Kawada Mami), Planeptunes Theme ver. Re;Birth (Neptunia), Im Not Okay (My Chemical Romance), You Are Alive (Fragma), fragments of various hardstyle songs, and the first one I ever started making for the 88P in 2012: AirFort-JP Hardcore mix (Minamotoya). I really have to finish at least some of these some time.
If you like this song, please check GOPs other stuff:
https://soundcloud.com/ghostsofparaguay")
![[Lasershow] Kotoko - Suppuration -core- (ThePDI) [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j3JvSxEmL6g/hqdefault.jpg "[Lasershow] Kotoko - Suppuration -core- (ThePDI) [HD]
This is a laser show created by ThePDI for Kotokos Suppuration -core-, played on Dnstjes 40kpps RGB laser projector. We kind of overdid it with the smoke machine at one point (that thing is overkill for such a small room).
The projector has a 400 mW red laser, 150 mW green laser and an 89 mW blue laser, although blue is barely used in this show. Having caused a lot of dead pixels on a previous camcorder of mine by having this projector shine directly onto its image sensor, I wasnt going to risk it again. Therefore I recorded this show from slightly underneath the projector instead of directly in front of it (I was less than a metre away from it).
The song is from the Ive Sound / Kotoko album Re-sublimity. I purposely did not overdub the song in high quality, so that people cant use my video to rip the song from, because YouTube seems to be becoming more and more stringent.")
