so if you're using Sega Genesis format in Deflemask, usually you assign drum channel from the midi to FM6, if you did it right you'll see the 1701 effect in the effect column of FM6, now you double click samples in the instrument window, and add your samples in. Keep in mind if your drums arent like C, C#, D, D#, you might have to move notes around to get the right sample to play where expected (meaning if your hi hat sample is C# but your midi had hi-hat on F#, youll have to change all the F# to C#)
I love midi2uge and I wasn’t expecting this tool at all. Considering how much midi2uge has improved with each update, I can’t imagine how many new surprises there will be, but so far this tool means a huge time saver for me. 11/10
For me the convert.bat is broken due a missing directory change before calling the Python script. Windows cannot find the script due current working directory for a drag&drop operation is always the source directory of the dragged file.
it worked on my machine and the two testers (who didn’t even have python installed to begin with). Do you have python installed so it can be called from any directory in windows?
I commented the the first line of the batch to show the error: 9:32:44,74 C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes > python midi2dmf.py -v "C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes\OVER.MID" "C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes\OVER.dmf"
python: can't open file 'C:\\projekte\\sega development\\midinotes\\midi2dmf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
The call is not executed in the correct directory. This isn't an issue of the python installation, it is wrong assumption what is the current working directory.
You're totally correct. Without being told (the directions don't say) the testers always put their test MIDIs in the root folder. I did too. I have updated the convert.bat to work regardless of where the MIDI is. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Sorry about that.
I'm so excited that this exists. I had to go as far as to learn to write music in Deflemask myself because existing conversion tools didn't cut it. Not that learning Deflemask is a bad thing, but nonetheless thank you for developing a new tool :)
Deflemask is great but in general, laying dow notes in trackers after I made a mock up track to show a client just feels so redudant. I mostly made this out of my own laziness :D I tried to make the video honest that no conversion is 100% perfect out the box, but anything beats spending two hours laying down notes.
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Great tool! I quite dont understand how to add the percusion samples tho...
so if you're using Sega Genesis format in Deflemask, usually you assign drum channel from the midi to FM6, if you did it right you'll see the 1701 effect in the effect column of FM6, now you double click samples in the instrument window, and add your samples in. Keep in mind if your drums arent like C, C#, D, D#, you might have to move notes around to get the right sample to play where expected (meaning if your hi hat sample is C# but your midi had hi-hat on F#, youll have to change all the F# to C#)
I love midi2uge and I wasn’t expecting this tool at all. Considering how much midi2uge has improved with each update, I can’t imagine how many new surprises there will be, but so far this tool means a huge time saver for me. 11/10
thanks for your support ! I learned a lot from midi2uge and tried to incorporate some of it here
For me the convert.bat is broken due a missing directory change before calling the Python script. Windows cannot find the script due current working directory for a drag&drop operation is always the source directory of the dragged file.
it worked on my machine and the two testers (who didn’t even have python installed to begin with). Do you have python installed so it can be called from any directory in windows?
I commented the the first line of the batch to show the error: 9:32:44,74 C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes > python midi2dmf.py -v "C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes\OVER.MID" "C:\projekte\sega development\midinotes\OVER.dmf"
python: can't open file 'C:\\projekte\\sega development\\midinotes\\midi2dmf.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
The call is not executed in the correct directory. This isn't an issue of the python installation, it is wrong assumption what is the current working directory.
You're totally correct. Without being told (the directions don't say) the testers always put their test MIDIs in the root folder. I did too. I have updated the convert.bat to work regardless of where the MIDI is. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Sorry about that.
I'm so excited that this exists. I had to go as far as to learn to write music in Deflemask myself because existing conversion tools didn't cut it. Not that learning Deflemask is a bad thing, but nonetheless thank you for developing a new tool :)
Deflemask is great but in general, laying dow notes in trackers after I made a mock up track to show a client just feels so redudant. I mostly made this out of my own laziness :D I tried to make the video honest that no conversion is 100% perfect out the box, but anything beats spending two hours laying down notes.