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October 7th, 2011 | Audio Stuff, EarthBound
Many years ago an official MOTHER 2 piano book was released. I remember us old-timers finding out about it in 1999 and being really excited about it. But then it sort of faded from memory as time went on.
Those were dial-up days, so game MP3s were still a bit troublesome to get – MIDIs were usually the preferred alternative. I think part of why we were so excited by the piano book was that it meant a ton of new, quality EarthBound MIDIs. At the time there were like four or five EarthBound MIDIs that everyone had 😛
Anyway, after all these years, a fellow named Adam showed up offering to make MIDIs out of all the sheet music in the piano book. So if you’re one of those old-timer fans or if you just like MIDI or EarthBound music, these are for you 😀
Adam also adds:
A quick note: I used a free version of a midi editor, so I had to take some roundabout ways in writing tempo changes and time signature changes. The result is that if you open this in a midi-to-sheet music program, it may look messy in places. However, I checked and double checked and personally guarantee that everything here is written exactly like it would sound if played on a real piano. I also made sure they were completely compatible with Synthesia.
May Giygas bless you for all time, Adam!
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14 Comments to MOTHER 2 Piano Book MIDIs
 | Poe said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
Back when my reeeeally old computer had a busted sound card, I loved MIDIs cuz they were the only thing my computer would play! Thanks for these~
 | EnnuiKing said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
The banner with the Mr. Saturn at the piano advertising MOTHER CDs was at the top when I clicked the comments for this page, heh.
You should check out SPC2MIDI; it’s a program that converts the SNES’s audio files to MIDI sound, and it’s really fun to play around with.
 | KingDarian said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
Cool. I actually have this book, and a keyboard, but can’t really play. I’ve messed around with the Onett theme a while back. It’s great to be able to hear what it should sound like.
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| Adam's Mom said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
Way to go Adam!!!
 | shadowdeku said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
“Messy in places”? I’ve see some truly terribly sequenced MIDIs, and these are not even remotely like them. You did a really great job on these.
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| man said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
There’s not a lot of Mother paraphernalia I’m remotely interested in, but this is one big, big exception.
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| Zoom! said on Oct. 7, 2011 |
Remember hearing bout these a few years ago…nice to see it here. Also, Mato, can you delete that stupid comment above please?
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| Logan said on Oct. 8, 2011 |
I’ve been looking for these for years, thank you so much!
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| ben said on Oct. 8, 2011 |
cool. really cool.
I’ve only listened to a few so far, but there’s definitely a F’d up note in the Threed midi.
threw it into Reason and fixed the note, used a higher quality piano sample, threw some reverb on it…
http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/05bp449her/threedpiano.mp3
if anyone would like, I could do this for all the songs.
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| Adam said on Oct. 8, 2011 |
Hey ben,
Thanks for the tip, I simply forgot to make that second C after the bar line a natural because I ended up changing the song to two-four time to accommodate the two-four measures present in the sheet music. As a result, the two C naturals ended up in separate measures, and I didn’t catch it. I had to do it that way because of the limits of my free program, and I just missed that one note. Also, you don’t need to worry about making higher quality versions, I already submitted a set to Mato, and he will post them if he wants to. (Mato, you did get those, right?)
Thanks for the effort though, I really appreciate it! And thanks to everyone else who had something to say; it made all the work worthwhile! 😉
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| ben said on Oct. 12, 2011 |
checking out these midis… never realized all the non-standard time signatures. Summer in 12/8? wtf? haha
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| Adam said on Oct. 14, 2011 |
Yeah, some of them had to be kind of strange. Summers had to be in 12/8 because the editor I was using did not allow me to write in swing time. It simply made it easier to write; every set of two eighth notes became a quarter and a eighth in 12/8, rather than being a triplet quarter and a triplet eighth in the original time signature; the program did not have a clean way to display quarter triplets next to eighth triplets, so it was really the only way I could make it happen. Anyhow, it turned out correctly. This project was definitely a learning experience for me.
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| cju said on Jan. 31, 2014 |
anyone know of a place to find scans of the book?
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