Hey there, i want to convert a spc ripped from a snes rom to midi, i`ve tried w mod2midi but all i got is a empty file.
It must be the most basic thing to do for you all but im really having a hard time and would really apreciate any help.
Thank you for your time!
No, it's more like trying to convert music played by someone on a keyboard with an unknown set of instruments (some percussion) with a different tuning for each instrument. And the SPC file data itself is like the knowledge in the person's head who's playing the song, specific to the individual and very time consuming to decode directly, so that's out too.
Converting from SPC to MIDI isn't totally impossible but very hard and annoying. A programm offers that opportunity (SNESAmp), but it will give wrong tempo and you have to take hours to parameters the pitch and instruments correctly. Also the programm only runs under a real DOS, wich means you have to posess Windows 98 or lower to be sure it works, on higher platforms it is very buggy for some reason.
I'd recommand you to just convert tunes by hand. It's a bit long sometimes, but very fun to do overall. Use a programm like Calkewalk Express to create new MIDIs from scratch, and write in the notes you listen from a SPC file. Use Super Jukebox to be able to switch on and off individual tracks, wich helps a lot (unless you want to convert the music from a game that use software track alocator, but only a frew games does that, (Tactics Ogre, Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean comes in mind)).
It's not as rare as one might think. The audio drivers of
Zoop (Viacom New Media) and
NBA Jam Tournament Edition (Acclaim) also use dynamic track allocation. For these, you'll need an SPC player that can enable/disable sounds by their sample data start addresses rather than by channel numbers.
Does SNESAmp run correctly in
DOSBox?
Found this program a couple week back and it seems to work pretty well. You need to play around with it a bit to learn what each function does (or learn some japanese)
Hope this helps!
http://gigo.retrogames.com/download.html#spc2midi
Tafoid
I remember of a program that converts SPC into IT files (Impulse Tracker). By having the IT file, so you could try a MIDI conversion.
I used SPC tool as a guide to converting MIDIs, as well as splitting the SPC tracks individually on Meridian.
So if you have good ears...
Thank you very much everyone!
i didnt expected such a fast response, well, now i think i got a very good idea of what to try next.
Maybe make the midis from scratch but i will try a couple of things more before.
Gotta love the internet.
WOA!!!! spc2midi works great! Thanks Tafoid!