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#1
Music / Re: Favourite Soundtrack per platform
May 24, 2017, 03:06:20 PM
Perhaps you're surprised Fire Emblem Fates soundtrack hasn't been mentioned because you haven't played the game, lol. I can't speak for others but I'm a bit biased against it myself because having played the game I found the game itself a bit boring and characters shallow compared to others in the series. I hear great things about Echoes though and am looking forward to hearing how they arranged FE Gaiden's OST for that one. Although, would that then count it as a 3DS or an NES game OST on these lists? lol
#2
Music / Re: Favourite Soundtrack per platform
May 22, 2017, 05:22:04 PM
Quote from: Maelstrom on May 20, 2017, 07:48:41 PMChrono Cross and FE: Awakening weren't midis.

They were, they just used great sounding samples. Some of the tracks weren't MIDI but the majority of them were.

EDIT: Clarification, although it may not use the MIDI format I meant it used MIDI-like sequenced music.
#3
Music / Re: Favourite Soundtrack per platform
May 20, 2017, 03:26:02 PM
NES: Mother/EarthBound
GB: Zelda - Link's Awakening
SNES: Too many great soundtracks to choose only one.
N64: Zelda - Ocarina of Time or Kirby 64
GBA: Fire Emblem
GameCube: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Highly recommended if you haven't heard it before.)
Dreamcast: Skies of Arcadia (Great orchestration)
PS1: Chrono Cross (Unbelievable MIDI quality)
3DS: Fire Emblem Awakening (Incredible MIDI quality)
#4
Yes, typically playing around in the registry is something that you shouldn't do, but in this case it's a valid solution. It's lesser known but is my favorite because it prevents you from having to to open resource heavy programs or juggle between multiple media players just to listen to higher quality MIDI sounds. If you're looking for a dedicated MIDI player or something with more control over the playback or file then this probably isn't the solution for you.
#5
Almost any MIDI software for Windows can let you specify the device to which it should output MIDI. Even Windows Media Player, actually, which can be done by changing a single registry value. Simply open up regedit.exe and click Edit > Find in the menu and search for "Default MidiOut Device". It should be located in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveMovie\devenum\...\Default MidiOutDevice". Change the value of "MidiOutId" to 0 for default MIDI, or 1 for a plugged in external MIDI device, 2 for a second device, and so on.
#6
No problem. My apologies as well. I do sometimes come across as being aggressive through text.
#7
Whoa, hang on, I'm not accusing anyone of plagiarism, and I thought we clarified that the sheets do infringe on copyrights at least to some extent since it's unclear what free licenses Nintendo is giving. I'm not disregarding any points either. I'm just interested in the subject and thought I could contribute to the conversation. No need to take offense.
#8
Quote from: daj on March 07, 2017, 06:08:45 AMFair use makes it such that we could get away with claiming all credit for the original, but that's just...wrong.
Unless I'm mistaking your meaning on "claiming all credit for the original", fair use does not mean you can claim to have made the original but rather that you can use the original for specific purposes and in specific ways without infringement of copyright. Aside from that, fair use is quite a grey area most of the time because it's under loose criteria so claiming something is okay because it's "fair use" doesn't necessarily mean it's fair use under a judge's eye.

Anyways, since you brought up acknowledging the original copyright source in the sheets, isn't this a bit awkward? It's kind of like claiming that the copyright owner made the sheets, which they obviously didn't, and the date is when the original work was made rather than the transcription. Wouldn't it be better for the disclaimer to say something like "Original music © name year"?
#9
Music / Re: Seeking nonstandard instruments
March 06, 2017, 06:57:06 PM
A chanter is the part of the bagpipes or uileann pipes that have the finger holes for playing the melody. Practice chanters are often used when learning the instrument because they provide a mouthpiece with which to blow into to provide the sound so that it can be learned in absence of a bag.
#10
Quote from: Latios212 on March 06, 2017, 06:03:50 PMI can try to address this. Using published music when arranging is a no-go because of the copyright notices on the published sheet books, the things that say "No part of this book may be reproduced, arranged, adapted, ...".
The book doesn't have to say that though because it's copyrighted regardless if there's a notice or copyright symbol/text. They just print that to deter from people copying.

Quote from: Latios212 on March 06, 2017, 06:03:50 PMYou don't seem to understand that our sheets on site are arrangements, not transcriptions. We are not reproducing the original compositions note-for-note in the same form as they originally were; we are adapting them for piano. It is not simply "copying from published music".
I understand that they're arrangements, but transcriptions are also arrangements. They're both derivative works.

Quote from: Dudeman on March 06, 2017, 06:07:16 PMTranscribing a multi-instrumental piece of music for a single instrument (in this case, piano) is practically impossible.
I would disagree ;)

Quote from: daj on March 06, 2017, 06:16:47 PMSo I'm quite certain that we're doing pretty okay ^^
I agree. I don't expect Nintendo to do anything about the infringement going on on the site, just pointing out that it's infringing either way of copying from other arrangements or not. Perhaps my misunderstanding is merely in the site's own rules of quality, submission criteria, or whatever you want to call it.
#11
Quote from: Latios212 on March 05, 2017, 08:55:04 PMAlso, you refer to the definition of plagiarism but fail to address the part that says "the representation of that author's work as one's own", which our arrangements are not.
I did in the next sentence. Looking back at the definition though it would seem that the first is expressing an act while the second expresses a work. Still seems to be a bit of a grey area, but I'd hardly take the dictionary definition as something concrete enough to be upheld in court.

Quote from: Latios212 on March 05, 2017, 08:55:04 PMRelevant link about Nintendo and derivative works. Arranging from the original compositions is okay; copying from published arrangements is not.
That article is news to me. According to Google translate of the original Japanese article however, it says "In addition, this time the "Creator Encouragement Program" will be subject only to content posted on Nico Nico Douga, but services such as Nico Nico Live and Nikoniko Still are currently out of scope." Also this applies as far as I know to Japanese copyright laws, of which with I'm unfamiliar, but it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo did have some sort of similar fan license for internet videos in the U.S. since that's what Warner Chappell has for SquareEnix music, however this is only for streaming video, not printed media. I've contacted the Alfred Publishing Company a few years ago about how they acquired the license to publish Nintendo sheet music, but unfortunately they didn't have very much information other than it took a long time before that relationship was made.

I still don't see how copying from published arrangements is much different from copying from published music. By the argument of applying "Composed by [composer name]" in order to retain accreditation, you could also apply "Arranged by [original arranger], [me]" to the transcriptions.

EDIT: I should clarify I don't care whether you believe it's wrong or not or continue to do it, that's a matter of your conscience. I'm only saying it's not any different from a law perspective."
#12
We are talking about published arrangements though which isn't much different from using the original composer's efforts without their permission. According toU.S. copyright law section 106, the copyright holders have the exclusive rights to "prepare derivative works" meaning that unauthorized arrangements is plagiarism, which by definition is "a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation". You could argue that citing the original author bypasses plagiarism in one definition since that's what scholarly publications do (not to mention there are limitations to the exclusive rights (sections 107-112) that apply to research and educational institutes), but I've never seen a piece of music that "cites" another per say.
#13
So I'm assuming that most people here already know that creating transcriptions either from scratch or borrowing from published sheet music are both infringing on copyrights, so why is there a distinction? As per U.S. copyright law, it's plagiarism whether you're copying other arrangements or not.
#14
You could just use spc2midi to separate the tracks out, although the bpm doesn't seem to convert to MIDI correctly. Then just use some sequencer software to see the notes (as opposed to notation software that would try to apply the MIDI bpm and look horrid).
#15
Music / Re: Procedurally Generated Music
February 21, 2017, 07:56:35 PM
You might be interested in Google's WaveNet text-to-speech engine that uses neural networks to generate sound. Scroll to the bottom of this article to see the results of it generate classical sounding piano music.