Castle Paradox

[Bagne]

It's been a while since I've visited this net community, and things have changed a lot.

I remember a general help message board for the OHRRPGCE.
Is this it?

Is there a better place to put my questions?

In the meantime, my question is:
When I left off in the game creation process, all my composed music files were in bam format. Now, things are different, and game.exe seems to automatically convert and play my songs as midi.
Consequently, it sounds terrible- the instruments were converted into something that is no longer suitable.
So, is there a way to convert my bam files to midi *and* in the process choose the appropriate midi instruments for each voice?
Also, I remember that the sound of bam instruments varied greatly between different computers (with different sound cards). Do midi voices do the same?
With bam files, it was possible to have subloops within a song, is that no longer possible with midi?
Is there a midi-editing program that works similar to Notate.exe?

I also have a bug to report in the current OHR version.

Thanks to any of my future helpers.
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[Onlyoneinall]

You can use Stephanie's PC piano. When you choose to convert to midi, it will allow you to choose the instruments.
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[TwinHamster]

You would probably want a link to go with that, wouldn't you?

[Bob the Hamster]

[PlayerOne]

[TwinHamster]

[Me]

Anvil Studio's free version works just great for MIDI composition. It isn't the same interface as Notate.exe but it isn't hard to get the hang of it.
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[msw188]

I also wanted to warn you that it is NO LONGER POSSIBLE to have infinite loops in the middle of a song. Thus, there is no way to have a song with an intro section that repeats infinitely without repeating the intro. For me this was the worst thing about the change to MIDI.

Also I'd recommend going the Stephanie PC Piano route for conversion. I didn't, and the MIDI's that come from straight command-line conversion are horrible to try and edit. That conversion puts all of the music onto one track with a whole slew of 'events' (computer triggers) that control the different voices and such. Worse yet, there is no musical organization; what was a down beat in notate ends up somewhere around 13/16ths of the way through a measure in Anvil (I made that fraction up, but you have to see it to believe how screwed up it looks).

In any case, I think that this message board (along with the plotscripting help board) is probably the best place to post OHR questions that I know of. This is not the old general helpMe board, but it has kind of taken over that function, I'd say.

[PlayerOne]

Ah yes, I forgot I had cheated with the tempo. The converted files won't be in a friendly format.

It ought to be possible to do a better conversion from Notate, I might look into that if I can find some time.

Another advantage of mod files is that they are pattern-based and (I'm fairly sure) can loop back to an arbitrary point. The downside is that the editors are quite unfriendly (in my opinion), and that you tend to need to find/make your own sounds. I was initially opposed to making anything too high-quality, since I wanted to port OHR to less capable platforms, but since there are already wave sfx now, I guess that boat has sailed.

[Bagne]

Awesome, thanks everyone.

I reported the bug-
And now I just found another- it may be related, but I don't know how to reproduce it. I'll report it too, it's the same as the "Wrong midi voices while importing songs" except it happened in-game only affected one of the song's voices.

Is there a tutorial on how to use the Anvil dealie?
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