MIDI Playback

I know MIDI is old and all and it sounds really crappy, but in not such a long time, this is a good thing. The TIGsource Chinese Bootleg Demakes competition is coming some time soon-ish, and I want to be able to play crappy MIDIs without having to send 4 MB mp3 versions of them with the game. That would be great.

AH yes you can play midi, no worries man.

1. Right click-> Insert the Audio Object Direct Sound into the layout (it will not be visible)

2. Several play options:

2a. Start of Layout-> Direct Sound/ Play music "filename.mid" (Works with Midi)

2b. Start of Layout-> Direct Sound/ Load File "filename.wav" (you can edit which channel, but it is okay to leave at channel 0)

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Play Direct Sound Channel 0 (or you can specify another channel)

2c. Start of Layout-> Direct Sound/ Autoplay "filename.wav"

The channels allow you to have multiple sound files be loaded/played at once. Really cool!

Hope this helps!

Huh. I've tried using "Play Music" to play MIDI's before, but it never worked.

OH! the midi needs to be in the same directory as your cap file. also include the extension name, so if your mid is cheesewhiz, it'd be

"cheeswhiz.mid"

On a nearly-related side note, I would expect any self-respecting Construct user to have their file extensions unhidden in Windows.

I did both of those. I'm not stupid.

Not saying you are, man. Not one bit. Some people who view this later, however, may benefit from advice like that the rest of us consider common knowledge.

Windows Media Player on my machine has a nasty habit of fading the MIDI volume on my PC to zero. I've no idea why. Check the windows mixer and see if the MIDI volume is up; 'Play Music' should work fine with midi files. Try opening the file in Windows Media Player - if it works there, Play Music should be able to play it too.