Tag: MIDI

Ahhh, the good old days. When men were real men, and websites were horrific white-on-dayglo-yellow creations lovingly crafted in notepad, complete with animated GIFs of randomly dancing M&M's and poor MIDI versions of Oasis' Wonderwall on auto-play. Miss those days? Do you? Come on, you can admit it... we're all friends here. Okay, you don't have to say anything -- I can see it in your eyes, ...

What does your website sound like? Now there's a new way to find out. I'm not talking about GeoCities-style autoplaying midis, here, I'm talking about CodeOrgan. CodeOrgan is a new web-based toy that turns the source code of your page into a synthesized jam. I expected it to do grievous damage to my ears, but CodeOrgan actually generates fairly listenable results. The new theme song for ...

Kenji Kojima's RGB MusicLab is an app that does the neat trick of converting images into MIDI music. As Kojima points out in the app description, this isn't some subjective or artistic interpretation of an image, it's an algorithm based on the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values in the image itself. It creates a pixelated mosaic of the original image, and adjusts notes up and down from middle C based ...

KissTunes is an online service that makes it easy to play and record music using your computer's keyboard. It offers three different instruments, and all the home row keys (and a few from the row above) represent notes. You can save your song, along with any comments from friends, as a .kiss file that will open from the KissTunes on any computer. The "kiss" in KissTunes probably refers to a ...

With all the buzz about the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, it's easy to forget that Wolfram works on other projects, too. The developers who brought you Mathematica also put their algorithmic muscle to work to create WolframTones, a music composition engine. It turns programs from within Wolfram's "computational universe" into midi musical compositions of all different styles and pitches. ...

I took piano lessons for a couple years when I was a kid. I never became a virtuoso, but maybe if I had had Piano Hero I could have. It's an open source edutainer in the mold of Guitar Hero and the like, except with a piano instead of a guitar. It's a bit rough around the edges and definitely doesn't have the eye candy appeal of its console brethren, but if you want to improve your real piano ...