I was going to start trying to use some modern version of Fruity Loops as a DAW that's called FL studio. I didn't make progress. I know how to make MIDI files on Noteworthy Composer. I would recommend that as the easiest MIDI creation software outside of just playing it in on a keyboard. I'm a guitar player and not a keyboardist. Noteworthy works like a word processor. You can highlight measures and copy and paste them. You can actually copy a melody, and then paste it on another staff. Then you can highlight it and shift it up or down 2 for a consistent third harmony or six subharmony. You can move it up 5 times for a 6th harmony or 7 for an octave. It looks like sheet music, so you'll have to know how to read music to use it. Although, I'm not good at connecting what note it is to where that note is on an instrument (I'm a tab-reading guitarist). I understand musical timing just fine and can read that with no problem. I understand keys and modes. I think this is stuff most musicians don't know these days.
MIDIs played on a typical computer will sound like something played on a $50-100 keyboard. You can upgrade your MIDI sounds and get it sounding like a $200-300 keyboard. Still cheap crap. I'm pretty sure you can move a MIDI to a serious DAW that uses VST instruments, and get it sounding a lot more like real music. You might make adjustments to levels and such there.
The most complicated thing I know of about using Noteworthy to create MIDIs is the drums. You have to know that you need to switch a staff to channel 10 to get MIDI drums. You can then test things out to find where the different drums are. Bass and snare are B and D respectively. I'm not sure if this translates properly to drums in a DAW.
Haven't used noteworthy in ages. I'm phone fagging it. Edited up a simple keyboard thing. Downloaded re-uploaded and edited to loop... This app is still pissing me off though.
My son uses FL Studio mobile. He makes some pretty good shit with it. You can get the pro version for free if you do some searching.
When I was about 18 I used to make weird MIDIs for fun. I tended to focus on chords and rhythms and avoid melody altogether. Yeah, I really sucked. I had fun with it, and I used it to test some things musically and learn a bit. I'm the opposite of a prodigy. I'm very slow musically, and I needed every little thing explained to me before I understood it. I figured out nothing on my own. The only reason I learned how to use Noteworthy and a few other MIDI sound altering programs is my brother taught me. I tend to be really bad at learning things. When I hit a bind, I might struggle to figure it out. Then if I succeed I'm so exhausted and need a break. My brother deals with problems and just keeps going. He wasn't very creative musically and mostly focused on playing back songs perfectly. I'm just bursting with creativity and ideas, though.
I recently opened up Noteworthy and found a file I created for some internet contact girl I don't even remember. It was made around 2015-2016. It's meant to be some kind of pretty chip tune ballad. It's actually pretty good, and something I can be proud of that actually makes use of melody. I felt like 2 changes should be made. I tried a simple take at it, and it brought up that classic ABC problem dilemma. You notice A is a problem, so you try to remove it and B pops up. Then you try to hold down A and B and then C pops up. I'm not sure how to get a MIDI into a quick and easy share on the internet.
Ex Machina? Are you an Advance Wars player?
Interesting. I know a lot of theory, used to play a lot of instruments, basically just did thirds in D on the keys, and edited.
I don't really play videogames, but wouldn't mind find something to get into. Ff7 is classic
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