MIDI Piano Roll Turned Into Platformer: Adventures of General MIDI

By Peter Kirn

It turns Logic Pro into a game level editor. It makes a standard MIDI file into a terrain of platforms to explore. As you navigate, your footfalls on piano roll-visualized notes procedurally generate sound effects and music.

And it turns General MIDI — and Super Midio, and my personal favorite, the SysExorcist — into heroes.

It's Adventures of General MIDI, a platformer made from MIDI files. And it's the creation of Will Bedford, who quips that he fails miserably at his own game in the YouTube video and gives up at the end. Even more unlikely (arguably), ...read more

Source: CreateDigitalMusic