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It only took 5 years, but you can finally download all the MIDIs I've made for the Roland SC-88Pro synth!

Well, I actually started making a lot more than 12, but most of them got abandoned, and these are all the ones that managed to survive my short attention span and make it all the way through to completion. If you just want to hear them, I've already uploaded videos of all of them.

I mention this in the video and on the download page, but these won't sound so good on non-Sound Canvas synths. I've made special versions of a few MIDIs, which are designed to work better on simpler synths (simplifying percussion and moving it all onto one channel, emulating slower attacks by using "expression" control changes, etc), which are included in the downloads where they exist, but it's very time-consuming and not always possible to even make it sound half-good, so I didn't do this for all of my MIDIs. They should sound fine on the newer SC-8850 too, and I'd be curious as to how they sound on an older Sound Canvas like the SC-55.

BaWaMI, my MIDI software synth, can sound acceptable playing most of them - at least if you spend a minute or two adjusting volumes and instruments. You can also use it to see what the MIDI Unfortunately, it would take a lot of work in a MIDI editor to get them to play well on a Yamaha XG synth, though.

You can grab the MIDIs from here:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/88pmidi/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064954/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/88pmidi/

You can also download BaWaMI from here, if you'd like:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bawami
https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064951/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/blog/?page_id=84#bawami
https://web.archive.org/web/20230430225434/http://robbi-985.homeip.net/hosted_programs/update/bawami/


I just hope that the people who wanted me to release these are still around to be able to have fun with them now...