Thank you Pokeplayer! B) You're lucky to heave heard this song so many years ago. I only watched LBT 5 for the first time shortly after I joined up with this forum. I can imagine this being one of those songs that would stick with a young person for a long time.
Incredibly accurate and very beautiful with the choices.
And that's why my MIDIs take so long to produce (well, that and I'm not very good with time management.
). I consider myself as working fairly carefully, making sure that basically every note in my MIDIs matches that of the originals, using no electronic means to do so. It's all done manually, which is what takes so long. As a result, my work will never have any of the junk that appears with MP3 -> MIDI conversion programs, as I
never use MP3 -> MIDI conversion programs. Everything I will post here is hand-made. It takes longer, but it's worth it!
Admittedly, it does take a bit of practice and ear-training (being able to figure out a pitch by listening to it and checking it against a reference, like a keyboard) to be able to do this. Some music theory knowledge doesn't hurt either, since one can use that logic to help figure out notes and recognize patterns if one knows the theory behind the music. I've been duplicating music (for better or for worse) in basic forms for as long as I've been able to sit at a keyboard and plunk out notes. I've been writing MIDI files since I was 13. I should be reasonably good at it by now, 7 years later.
I very much enjoyed the song, but I must admit, this wasn't my favorite MIDI to produce. There was a lot of detail work regarding balancing and a lot of notes to worry about (the piano and the guitar added up to a lot of notes to have to figure out!)
All in all, this provided a unique challenge, similar to a combination of Adventuring and No One Has To Be Alone, but with very tricky balancing concerns.
: Always There also has 15 instrument tracks, which is more than I expected I would use for this song.
I'll be posting up a (hopefully) high-quality MP3 of this MIDI in the near future, using my favorite virtual instruments, once I finish tweaking it. I can't wait to hear what that will sound like. it's coming along, but it needs a bit more work before I post it. B)
my question now, is what song should we do next?
Keep it up and you'll definately get a great carrer out of it.
With any luck, I can make a few bucks to compliment a day job. There are too many people out there who can do music and MIDI work, unfortunately for people like me. Oh well, it's more fun as a hobby anyway.
And you never know, I guess!
I can get the music quite accurate, but I'm SLOW! It takes me forever to write a MIDI file, or compose music. Always There took me basically 4 full days, working at a leisurely pace, and taking breaks. That is something that will Kill me in the professional world.
The way I see it, a lot of less mainstream media (TV, movies, etc.) hasn't been touched by the online community to any extent. Take MIDIs for example: The only LBT MIDI that was fairly easy to find was If We Hold On Together. People just didn't make MIDIs of songs for the series. That's what I want to do: I want to deliever something New, that nobody has brought to the world yet. Many people have made MIDIs of popular songs and popular video game music, for example. Surprisingly, Nobody has released MIDIs of LBT songs. Some day, once I complete a few more LBT MIDIs, I'm going to locate a MIDI database site, one with a Children's section, and see if they'll host my work. I will also attach my MIDIs to the lyrics site, so they are all easy to access.
I'm also working on a larger project as well: Duplicating the instrumental background music to each LBT film and making LBT series soundtracks using high-quality virtual instruments. Obviously, I can't sell them as I dont own the rights to the original music, but I will post them here as I complete them.
