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titanicpassenger1

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Black MIDI
« on: May 29, 2015, 06:51:10 AM »
So Last Week Listening Classical and Pop Songs on YouTube I found this type of music called Black MIDI.
Basically It's a MIDI file containing tons and tons of notes it's literally unplayable by any human on earth and if you look on a sheet music it's just black because of too many notes.


This is what a Standard MIDI file looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8dSKNB8vSo


And this is what a "Blackened" MIDI file looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaNoK04Cy8


So, what do you think of this "Black MIDI" thing?

Gordon Freeman

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Re: Black MIDI
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2015, 06:00:13 AM »
Hypothetically, if you got a few people to play each MIDI layer, then a Blackened MIDI could be playable.

titanicpassenger1

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Re: Black MIDI
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2015, 03:43:51 AM »
Hypothetically, if you got a few people to play each MIDI layer, then a Blackened MIDI could be playable.

That won't work, because most Black MIDIs had notes shorter than 1/48 <-- lower can't play by a human.


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Re: Black MIDI
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2015, 08:22:44 AM »
There are some classical 17-1800's-era scores with 1/2048 notes.

titanicpassenger1

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Re: Black MIDI
« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2015, 07:49:20 AM »
There are some classical 17-1800's-era scores with 1/2048 notes.

D: I forgot about that.

Most Black MIDIs had the 4096th note (Gate = 1 sometimes 5): The shortest note in a MIDI Sequencer. It's impossible to play because it's too short (72 milliseconds  @ 4/4 time witch Most songs have) But you can play it when the Tempo is too slow.