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AC Midi files

Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 8:35 pm
by Untitled
I know i ask a lot of questions, but bear with me please.

Is there an archive of Animal Collectives songs in MIDI format. I know that actabs have three and theyre awesome :) But do anybody have any AC(or ACrelated) MIDI files laying around. If so please post it or PM me. I will be you forever thankful. (i already have Alvin Row, Giant and Penny D)

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:16 pm
by Untitled
Seriously? Has noone got any midi files from animal collective? You guys always have the most obscure AC things. How come that noone have got any...?

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:21 pm
by Adjust Your Insides
Unfortunately there's no easy way to generate an accurate MIDI directly from a song, the only way to do it is the long painful process of transcribing the song one note at a time and entering it into your music program of choice. There is no MIDI archive because they're a pain in the ass to make. You already have the 3 I made and don't know of any others tbh. But I can try to make some more if you have a particular song request!

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:06 pm
by StrangeClams
Adjust Your Insides wrote:
Unfortunately there's no easy way to generate an accurate MIDI directly from a song, the only way to do it is the long painful process of transcribing the song one note at a time and entering it into your music program of choice.

I'm pretty sure Emerson did this for Little Fang so ask him

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:39 pm
by clayton
StrangeClams wrote:
Adjust Your Insides wrote:
Unfortunately there's no easy way to generate an accurate MIDI directly from a song, the only way to do it is the long painful process of transcribing the song one note at a time and entering it into your music program of choice.

I'm pretty sure Emerson did this for Little Fang so ask him

I did it for Little Fang, Emerson used the audio.

What I did is use a program such as Guitar Pro 6 (don't believe version matters), to write the notes in for every single instrument. Its arranged as a tab so its much easier than using the typical sideways keyboard style midi editor. Then you can export to midi and play it how you like.

It gets you a sound like this:
http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/avey-tar ... -s388748t2

That tab is just midi being played back.

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:41 pm
by Untitled
Did you see the words is on top of my head :)

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 5:42 pm
by clayton
Ill give it a shot.

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:13 am
by coollodges
didnt clams do like a honkey tonk version of did you see the words? it sounded sort of midi'ish?

Re: AC Midi files

Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:16 am
by coollodges
clayton wrote:
StrangeClams wrote:
Adjust Your Insides wrote:
Unfortunately there's no easy way to generate an accurate MIDI directly from a song, the only way to do it is the long painful process of transcribing the song one note at a time and entering it into your music program of choice.

I'm pretty sure Emerson did this for Little Fang so ask him

I did it for Little Fang, Emerson used the audio.

What I did is use a program such as Guitar Pro 6 (don't believe version matters), to write the notes in for every single instrument. Its arranged as a tab so its much easier than using the typical sideways keyboard style midi editor. Then you can export to midi and play it how you like.

It gets you a sound like this:
http://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/avey-tar ... -s388748t2

That tab is just midi being played back.

also this .gif syncs perfectly with that midi track
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