Submission Off-Topic Chat

[pumpy_heart]

I couldn't care a rat's ass about the midi. If the sheet looks good and is playable by my target audience, then I'm fine with it.

[Bespinben]

I can understand that pumpy. The thing is though, my comment was based on the premise that our target audience was average web_surfer browsing through this site. You having a different target audience however explains the difference between our arrangement styles, which is perfectly fine.

[pumpy_heart]

Yep. Don't really know if NSM has a target audience, but I would think it is people looking for sheets. Don't really want to be a sound editor for a living. XD

[spitllama]

As a casual surfer of ninsheet (my arrangements are too few/noobish to really matter), I have never touched the midis xD

And if I'm wrong tell me, but I don't think musically ignorant people find ninsheet and are like OMG MIDIS OF PIANO. Sheets seem like the focus.

[fingerz]

Besides, the MIDIs aren't fabulous quality. If you want to hear it properly, you're better off using Finale Reader or another Finale product.

[Nebbles]

And regardless of the MIDIs, people using the sheets also should know what the song sounds like, shouldn't they? So the MIDIs are essentially useless to most of us, since we KNOW what the song sounds like already, so plunking out the keys on the piano and learning the song isn't too difficult.

Just my two cents, though.

[SlowPokemon]

Dynamics shouldn't be required imo. They're at the discretion of the performer.

I disagree, implementing dynamics is a fine standard and not hard to do.

[SlowPokemon]

Sorry for double post. But.

I couldn't care a rat's ass about the midi. If the sheet looks good and is playable by my target audience, then I'm fine with it.

^This. Exactly. Playability and accuracy >>>>>>>>>>> how the midi sounds.

[Dudeman]

And regardless of the MIDIs, people using the sheets also should know what the song sounds like, shouldn't they? So the MIDIs are essentially useless to most of us, since we KNOW what the song sounds like already, so plunking out the keys on the piano and learning the song isn't too difficult.

Just my two cents, though.

If it makes any difference, I listen to the MIDIs first and foremost to figure out the playability/difficulty of a song. MIDIs are just as important as anything else.

[spitllama]

Well...

[Winter]

I'm having trouble figuring out how this topic came up. As far as bespinben was saying on his first mention of midi's: No, I don't think a mf at the beginning of the score helps midi playback all that much. It's like if you had a picture and turned the brightness all the way up, that doesn't make it better. You have to adjust the contrast at different parts of the art to make it sound/look. Heck, the customer could just turn their audio up if one mf is all we had. I know it does make other changes to the sound, but you know what I mean. Playing any song at one volume level all the way through is not the best idea. You as a pianist would change it a bit, so write it how you would play it.

[Shadoninja]

Playing any song at one volume level all the way through is not the best idea.

Ragtime and marches can sound fine at one volume level.

[fingerz]

True. Ragtime sounds awesome any way you play it.

[Meta-Ridley]

I think the real reason for MIDIs is because we want to check out if this is a well-sounding arrangement that works for piano. And occasionally if you don't know what a songs name is you go through the MIDIs to find it.

[Dudeman]

That's pretty much what I was trying to say earlier.