Black MIDI songs will kill your brain and your computer
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Have you ever been listening to a normal song and thought, "I really wish this normal song had 280 million notes and took up 1.1 terabytes of data and was literally unplayable on any computer?" Of course, you're only human. Black MIDI is the hypnotic madness you've been craving.
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Have you ever been listening to a normal song and thought, "I really wish this normal song had 280 million notes and took up 1.1 terabytes of data and was literally unplayable on any computer?" Of course, you're only human.
MIDI is a shared language that lets electronic instruments communicate with computers, developed in the early 1980s to provide a technical standard in the burgeoning field of digital music.
MIDI used to sound like this.
Now MIDI is literally at the core of all pop music -- it's how keyboards and laptops and samplers make Katy Perry records. It's how your ring tone works. It's how you use a tiny plastic guitar to play the "Freebird" solo on Expert. It's basically digital music air. It is in everything.
Black MIDI is a sequenced MIDI file so dense with notes, it literally just appears to be jet black. So instead of sounding like this -
It sounds like this -
Uploaded on February 6th, 2011, that piece of hypnotic mayhem from kakakakaito1998 is the first-ever Black MIDI. Although these files were being traded online as early as 2009 in Japan, kakakakaito1998 an original "blacker." Because naturally his subculture has bad-ass lingo.
These songs are created -- or "blacked" as the bad-ass lingo goes -- by initially layering multiple MIDI files on top of each other, shortening the notes, and then presumably offering some sacrifice to the pagan Gods of yore because seriously this shit is insane and no one who does it seems eager to divulge the secret sauce.
The visual side of black MIDI is as mesmerizing as the notes themselves -- of which that song has 7.67 million. There is an element of technical braggadocio and one ups-manship to not only the number of notes, but the presentation. The description of that video is simply "My graphics card has enough memory to run this without invisible notes :D."
Why? Why? Why? Bullet hell.
The most popular blackened MIDIs all originate with the Touhou project, a one-man enterprise that has seen the release of 21 bullet hell games in as many years. The quintessential Japanese shoot 'em ups, Touhou games feature an unending reign of enemy fire and big tunes.
That, for example, is a 2003 Touhou game called Perfect Cherry Blossom. And this is "Necrofantasia," a popular song from Perfect Cherry Blossom.
In fact, the 10 largest black MIDIs, according to the Impossible Music Wiki's leaderboard, are all Touhou project songs. But it's TH-cam so of course someone did "What Does the Fox Say."
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I could tell one of those "blacked" songs were Bad Apple.
Majorities of Touhou songs are "blacked".
We don't talk about the Yukari trash.
What's a Yukari and why is it trash?
What did you just said about Yukari... Unless it's because getting to her is hard as fuck and beating her is EVEN HARDER! If that's why... I can understand... But she is not trash
Reficul_ same.
Reficul_ Yes! 😄
I thought it was actually going to melt my brain I was exited
Kid Dolphin exited? So you clicked off the video?
I was started
KowabungaPACC what did you exit?
KowabungaPACC i
who/what was inside of you?
"that for example is a 2013 touhou game called Perfect Cherry Blossom"
uhh PCB was released in 2003
XDDDDDD true dat.
i think he counted the spinoff-fighters etc
He said 2003.
it pisses me off to no end that there is a band called Black Midi that does not in fact make black midi
“black midi” makes amazing music though.
listen to that clip of the original black midi tell me that isnt the nexus of whatever the hell bm is
They do but with real instruments
Oh sure, but replace "MIDI" with "people" and the title is suddenly racist
"Black people songs will kill your brain"
I agree.
+Jeroen de Neef yeah
It's not too wrong.
basically
hahahah
replace with white and self hating whites will swarm this video
"What's a MIDI file?"
"I'll show you!"
*S A D C E N A*
I'M NEVER USING THE COMPUTER AGAIN!
W H O S B E E N D R A W I N D I C K S
john cena the time is now?
Y O U P U R P L E M O N K E Y F U C K
I was obsessed with this channel around 9 years ago.
Me too
never forget
:salute: man was this my childhood
haha dude i used to watch you all the time
oh man
did i just hear bad apple?
yup xd
its necrofantasia, lol
崔懷康 no the 2:06 part
oh, i see.
yEees
This video should be "Why does it exist" rather than "this exists".
The Fizio You Mean His Name
same reason why the 12 tone series exist. artists get bored or disillusioned and try new things.
It sounds sick actualy
The Fizio 1kth liked
The Fizio it exists because touhou
this is the most easiest song to play in the whole entire universe!!
step by step
1.lie on your piano
2.have the biggest seizure in the universe
3.go crazy...like rlly crazy
4.pass out
easy step by step
Siobhan Burgess I laughed way too hard
Siobhan Burgess yes
Step 1: Acquire money
Step 2: Acquire 750,000 grand pianos
Step 3: Climb mt. everest
Step 4: You know what to do...
Instead of having a seizure, you can get 100 million people to play one piano.
Actually there is an easier song. It has literally no notes.
3:53 I died when you said "that was jingle bells"
Nojus Raudys and my ears started to hurt
You mean 4:06
@@muffinV136 4:02
Brain.exe Has stopped working.
Lol
Piggydojo 3090 faithhumanity.exe has stopped working
No it has been deleted
neurol.sys cannot be found.
Please download the file from another source.
Google.ap is not installed on your device.
Piggydojo 3090 XD
"black midis will kill your brain and computer"
"and by that we mean it might give you a headache and it might be too much notes for your computer to handle"
Sociocat hmm so we need something stronger than black midi....
Zsurvivalist abyssary shadow? Dusk? Abyssal?
Void MIDI
Nonexistent MIDI
Limbo MIDI
minimum requirement > 1,000,000,000 notes in a minute
@@hleghe810 Playing touhou extra stage on phantasm level!
My theory on the "secret sauce" is that certain combinations of notes sound exactly like a certain single note. If you use that to create a note out of other notes, and then create those notes out of other notes, and so on, and you can stack seemingly infinite notes into a single sound. It will sound louder and a bit distorted as a side effect.
close, it's that most of the notes are incredibly soft, so that they are purely to add to the note count, or visuals. It's the layering of midi files that's hard
I say that the person to write the Black MIDI lowers the pitch of the singular note which they do to the rest of the "design notes"/"placeholder notes" to either add to the note count to make it a tride and true Black MIDI or to make interesting designs.
@@voidcrypt Kind of, but not at all. Some people do this and us in the black midi community call them "spammers" that make well.. "spam midis" which are usually normal midis with note art written all over them. They are considered very low quality but alot of black midis have a little bit of art and alot of real blacking that would make the song impossible even if you removed the note art. I suggest you check out HDSQs Channel
@@Naokarma Also since midi is binary data, you can technically program all of this by, well...programming it...with algorithms.
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rip anyone trying to listen to hellfire on their computer
If black midi doesn't crash your computer your car AND give you a brain aneurism you're doing it wrong
Kayden Bucher That's what I'm saying.
I passed out during this
Cookie Monster I like it. I may as well be trying to run sky rim with full graphic settings on a toaster but i like it.
TRRTRTRTRTRTRTRTRTRTRTRZRTRTRTRTRTZTZRZRTZRTRZRTZTZTZTRZTZRTRZRTZRTZTZRTRZTZRTRZTRZRTZTZTRTTZRTZRTZRTZTZRTZRTZT
That was Jingle Bells.
The beauty of it brings tears to my eyes.
Vivian Knight
Are you positive that's not blood?
Tom Krystinik Of course not. Why would it be blood? The blood is coming from my ears, silly! Isn't it obvious? :)
Touche.
Looiooooiigojbfgbcf dats how I say hi
*she moves with a porpoise*
what a magnificent pooorpoise
What does the fox say
D F F D F F D F F D F F
nice
4:02 my esrd
jingle bell's my jam boY
cRANK THAT SHIT
Lol SAEEEEEM
ya sacrificed to the wrong pagan god on this one!
lol
i could literally do that on my piano by using both of my arms and smashing em' keys
It bothered me when he said Perfect Cherry Blossom was released in 2013.
Anne Is Bored-chan Probably a typo on the script, which was probably written on a keyboard where the only number keys are on the numpad, thus the 1 key is dangerously close to the 0 key.
Aaron/Arika Rayner That makes sense.
+Aaron Rayner (As weak as Alexis) In the captions, it does say 2003, so it wasn't a typo in the script, just a misread.
Black midi is literally the future. They are clearly writing songs using algorithms and math
AI is our new god
True. I study Technical Death metal which utilizes a lot of similar music theory
youre wrong
these songs are made using fl studio and domino
i know about black midi
Original Black Midi is privated now...
I think the BMT community is dying.
0:43 MIDI didn't "used to sound like" anything...
+Ryan Dunlap Yes! This bothered me too.
+Ryan Dunlap thought the same thing.
+Ryan Dunlap searched for this comment. Did the guy even try to read into the topic? Fucking disgrace.
+BassApps Sorry man, I'm not following the first sentence; you mean you researched what I said in my comment regarding MIDI? About the rest of what you said, haha yeah, I totally agree. It's something I think about sub/view competition or simply the desire for those that causes a very small percentage of these people to actually be humble anymore. What I mean is that in their desperation to keep people's attention, they are constantly feigning expertise about goddamn _everything_ under the sun.
Ok, of course a host trying to sound confident in an effort to appear credible is nothing new, but for fuck's sake, these people take the whole age-old, "meh, screw the people who know enough to call me out because the majority, who's ignorant to the subject's details, will just take my word for it" thing to an ENTIRELY new fucking level. Like I mean to a point where _ton's_ of people are able to listen to them an instantly go, "uhhh nope, that's utter bullshit", and you'd think it'd be too dishonorable or at least embarrassing for the people who run these channels to keep it up...the operative term being _you'd think_.
I know the MIDI protocol isn't the most well-known subject, but I assume you know what I'm referring to and that it's done with topics that are _considerably_ more commonplace. Who knows, maybe I'm just bitter, but I just turned 30 so it's not like I'm all that old and I truly believe that this is the sort of thing that falls under the umbrella of "shit that harms the whole scene and not just the offending individual". Sorry for the rant...bottom line, I whole-heartedly agree with ya; you couldn't possibly have used a more suitable word than what you did, "disgrace".
EDIT: God fucking _damnit_, does anyone know how to prevent the comment's text field from double-spacing your line-breaks when you just go to leave one space in-between paragraphs? And if you instead hit [enter/return] one time and leave no space, it's not like it still adds one, making the end result two paragraphs separated by one space. It's so freakin' annoying...
Ryan Dunlap haha bro you got me wrong. I am way younger than you (no harm intended lol) but I develop MIDI software since I am 18 (basically what my channel is about) and it's always bothered me what people still understand under the term "MIDI".
I sometimes need "excuses" for my kind-of-wealth (not saying I am rich but am earning well above the student average) and after telling someone my life story again I actually got "so you mean what the keyboard makes the sounds with? isn't that outdated? my windows XP can do this!" once. Since then I cringe every time someone stains the image of MIDI. I wish I had the time to make a website with simple info charts about what MIDI is, comprehendible for the masses.
I think the biggest mistake was, although technically correct, calling MIDI files MIDI files. Technically correct as the file reproduces exactly what a multichannel MIDI output would send to another device, but the problem was that people thought it's an actual sound file, whereas it's just notes.
Maybe if Microsoft called their GS synth a bit different or didn't implement a *.mid parser into the WMP but outsource this to a little note editor instead, there wouldn't be as much misconceptions about MIDI that there is right now, but it's too late I guess :/
To that "searched for this comment" thing; I simply hoped someone (except me) would've noticed.
"Why isn't my brain dead yet then?" - I absent-mindedly ask in response to the title of this video.
but now you got an answer to your comment
You sound like a fucking mong
Acctually. i know this is kinda late. but i have stomped in some black midis. and i dont know. What if i listen on them to youtube? Would anything happen to my pc/brain? Its acctually quite inresting.
such a magnificent purpose
she moves with a purpose
SUCH A PUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPOSE
Sosososososo magnificent
MAGINIFICENT PURPOSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE
TBE
bmbmbm
This music makes Cannibal Corpse sound like Coldplay
Davide Graffieti what about napalm death
Davide Graffieti that joke was a cold play.
Davide Graffieti listen to mortician
Garl Gamp listen to enmity
watch his video on extratone.
Lmao this didn't kill me or my pc
How did you play it back?
zawzero what?
c0nfused Max
I mean which software / DAW on which PC did you play it? Because with not so hefty PC setups it will most likely kill/freeze your PC.
zawzero lol idk
c0nfused Max
What? You said it did not crash your PC, yet you cannot state the specs?
“It’s how your phone’s ringtone works”
Remember those days?
>2013 Touhou
>Perfect Cherry Blossom
Off by a decade.
looks like some of those notes are mute
Yeah
More like 2/3rd of all the notes played.
For the fox one I could hear a definite melody and accompaniment while the screen was showing all kinds of crazy stuff... Maybe whoever made it forgot to layer in the rest of the tracks.
Crikey Crikeys im pretty sure gingy made it and there's this thing called velocity which allows you to adjust the loudness of notes
Pacifist NZ
there are some that have less silent notes-_-
Your secret ingredience: Velocity. MIDI protocol gives each note a 127-step velocity attribute, so all of these notes that make it look so dense and full of information is nothing but barely audible notes.
+triplenippel123 That's what I was thinking. I imagined this would be even more intense than Zappa's "black page'. they both have black as a descriptor for the same reason; the score is so full of notes it turns the page black.
But this done with midi files actually sounds less complicated than many 'simple' songs.
By shortening all the notes and piling them on top each other, you're actually making less music happen.
Like mixing every food item in your kitchen together in the blender; you'll just end up with a bland brown mush.
+triplenippel123 +nuberriffic yessss i finally found the people thinking this type of thing is just to "scare" people off!,! on my note, you can still make the notes audible, but if then, make it in key and scale so it wouldnt sound too way off.
+triplenippel123 I don't really get the connection between velocity as a decret ingredient and density
+BassApps Velocity one notes are so quiet they're nearly if not completely inaudible. You can fill a bunch of space with them and if your other notes are much louder people will never hear them. Literal filler.
+nuberiffic Layering notes leads to strange sound effects though. Sometimes it's done well, often people do just add in nonsensical notes.
Bullet hell fandom makes the game music reflect the source material, just because they can! I think that's a little bit beautiful.
I can't believe this video is 8 years old.
Black MIDI songs will steal your bike
White midi songs will find this funny then feel depressed remembering how it's wife was looking at the black midi song at the gym
Pentakill!
they took everything even my toaster come on wy
now i have to check on my bike
HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFE
Clickbait!
+RobotUnderscore how, exactly?
***** I really don't know. It wasn't a sarcastic comment, I'm laical lol
If you've got a shitty PC with like 2GB RAM it'll fuck up and you'll run out of RAM. It won't break it but thank god Windows doesn't restart with all your previous programs open. What it could kill is some old MIDI keyboard, MIDI-compatible sound card, or possibly even fuck over your MIDI Controller.
+Salvador pardiñas Your Post is more entertaining and has better information that this Tard in the Video!
+Salvador pardiñas there is no way the hardest song on rock band and destroy my gtx 1080 2way sli
64gb of ram@?mhz
core i5-6600k
TBE!
If anyone can do this irl... im not sure they're human....
Pyro Pyro they're not you can't press keys that fast because you have to lift your fingers
It's physically impossible
Look up Conlon Nancarow, he was basically the father of black midi, but without the high tech stuff of today. He did it on player piano. Adam Neely has a great video on it
These people played Death Waltz (blacker version on piano). A family can play it for sure
nop they are koro-sensei
The ammount of Touhou in this video makes me happy :').
+Mint Mochi Amen, brother.
+Mint Mochi I recognised basically all of the songs that he played. The Touhou games had *really* good soundtracks.
JamEngulfer
Yep!
The first track which was Ran's theme, I was like OMG TOUHOU! But I didn't realize how often Touhou was referenced later XD
Mint Mochi I was going to comment on it, but I figured I'd wait until I'd watched the video.
Me too.
#blacklivesmidi
XD
+Josh M that was cute
W.
That Was Cute.
W
Can’t believe this classic turned 10 years old this year, black midis have come a long long way since then :’)
But why didn't I die when you played the songs? Clickbait.
ikr, i was looking forward to it :'
So, to black a midi file you just add a shitload of ghost notes that no one hears?
Yes. Pretty much.
+Nullll1111 Not always. Yes, "note art" can be and is often added to a MIDI file to add to the visual appeal and increase the note count, but this is never the only thing done to a Black MIDI file, depending on the MIDI note art might not even be used at all.
In a proper black midi, additional audio details can and will be added to a song to make it sound chaotic and impossible to play with your real hands on a piano, such as piano smashers (all notes at once), "drum beats" using lower notes, arpeggios, etc. The amount of focus put in to these kind of things depend of style and/or quality of a Black MIDI. A high quality black will respect musical theory to detail when making these blacking decisions.
+Nullll1111 If you want to learn more, I suggest you check this website out: sites.google.com/site/themightyandpowerfulttc/ , watch a couple of mainstream Black MIDI videos analyzing the techniques put in to the songs, and maybe read the Official Black MIDI Wikia.
Ladical, FYI, it seems obvious that you don't know Black MIDI nearly as much as I do. I've been involved in the community for quite some time and I'm even friends with some of the most popular Black MIDI Team members despite not being one myself.
What you need to realize is, not all Black MIDI compositions are treated equal, in fact it's quite the opposite; there's a ton of crappy Black MIDIs out there of varying style, but there's a fair share of good Black MIDIs and/or Scores around if you look hard enough (mostly produced by the BMT members themselves).
+THE EPIC RANTER Your rant was terrible. I want a refund.
Dude, I had a game downloading, and when you said, "when the person's computer just fully gives up and blacks out" I wasn't watching in full screen, and the game started with a black screen and scared the crap out of me.
Bluelink121 This is wonderful.
Nothing is impossible when you're an octopus on drug's
4:02
Where can I download that sound effect? I need it to represent my generic all powerful anime move.
You could probably rip the audio and snip that part.
midi is only a data signal... it doesn't actually make any sound... :/ by all means, it's the input to your synth that triggers the sound, but the synth makes the sound, not the midi...
Craig Williams so it's Nick Valentines fault... I understand
yup, totally... or maybe it was just a distinction between midi and a note that is heard... idk...
Yeah MIDI is a protocol used to allow compatibility of music equipment between different manufacturers. Not only is it musical data but time clock data and other things we take for granted today. You can write a song in MIDI, and it can be played on any instrument that's MIDI capable. The author of this video doesn't have a good understanding of MIDI at all...
Yes! Thank you Craig Williams. Makers of modern mobile devices and social networks are failing to understand this, and it is costing me my musical carrer.
So sing your comment loud and proud! :)
It's all vibrations, there is no synth :P
**I open the vid pauses instantly mutes mike then reads comments then sures that no harm to my pc or head will be caused plays the video and unmutes the mike**
Literally did the exact same thing as you
ckrabman16 :P
does it harm you or your computer?
Gabriel Pocurull no
So, who's Mike?
So thissss is where the band name comes from. That’s so cool
thank you for introducing me to black midi about 6 years ago . I was looking for this exact video everywhere. I think it was on the youtube frontpage on that era. thank youu mr Sam
am i the only one who thinks the subtitles don't match his words ???
no shit sherlock
Cocking hell we got bleeding Einstein here
+Negaclaw Fuck you Watson
I don't know why people are getting mad at you. The non-automatic subtitles, which someone had to manually add, rephrases some sentences.
xRockStarx13 Hey, how's the Vault?
"Dad what's a MIDI?"
"I'll show you!"
JOHN CENA
No it's SAD CENA
+Kooper YOU HAVE TO *PAY* FOR MIDIS???
JOEL? JOEL!?
+Kooper WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS
Makes sense it steals all the ram, after all its black
"...then presumably sacrificing an animal to a long-dead pagan god."
*W H E E ZE*
waitwaitwait, was that a black MIDI Bad Apple
Yup, Good song.
wait, does it really post my youtube comments to g+?
Ethan Kelly They are just connected. Such as reading comments in gmail.
-_-
google is wierd
touhou still coolest
Give this person a beer.
In honor of ZUN of course.
Z
U
N
P
E
T
S
Of course you would expect me to yell ZUNPETS in all caps if I have some in my own battle theme.
agreed
Kyasarin Hagaren also agreed
Indeed
“THAT was Jingle Bells”
Man this video is such a huge nostalgia trip.
I also liked black midi (the genre, not the band). It's dead now, no new songs, but hey, that was a fun ride.
SHE MOVES WITH A PURRRRRPOSE SUCH A MAGNIFICENT PURRRRPOSE
Can't wait for a mania beatmap of these
they exist.
Graveyard maps
SubZ XD you mean osu!mania? i think they were talking about beat/stepmania
I know no one else cares, but I love his OVO Toronto Raptors shirt.
Jason Jimmerson I care.
***** Not to put you down, but pretty much every child is a technological genius nower days. We grew up with good computers. Adults didnt. I'm only 15 and im studying hacking.
+connorwillett Nope, can you teach me? I'm currently taking an Intro to Operating System's course and the insight would be helpful. I don't care that you are a child, you are a human that is apparently more knowledgeable than I am so I can definitely learn from you.
***** You might know how to make an operating systek in theory, but have you ever made your own operating system?
*****
He was making a Terminator refference.
I remember seeing that title of how it could break your brain, I took it too seriously as a kid and was scared of watching this lol
Same bro
Touhou's influence with memes never ceases to amaze me
I don't care that he said the game name wrong, I'm just happy he knows what it is
I'm just glad he presented the game in a concise yet intriguing manner. Well... apart from the 2013 part
Yes, hes a good man... Not wanting to get knifed by me
He said it right though?
Same here.
No.. he didn't say it correctly
3:10 Perfect Cherry Blossom came out in 2003, not 2013.
This cured my cancer
To anyone curious, the video featured at 1:30 is titled "Middle Schooler and Elementary Schooler Tried to Turn Necrophantasia's Normal Music Pure Black."
Wait so black midi doesn't kill brain cells not in the slightest?
jtlol5 it will if you have photosensitive epilepsy
Johann Sinone Corpuz Guess i'm fine then... Fucking clickbait. The boy who cried wolf shit all over again.
Sorry pal, I came from a long line of ignorant, gullible, superstitious, peasants. Old habits or should I say old traditions die hard.
im not idiotic. Im suicidal! =D
I'm sad that it doesn't , makes me wonder what kind of sounds can fuck with your brain
for some reason I expected the best mindfuck dubstep drops ever but I got this
It's always nice to see back... and remember the old school black midis...
a.g. cook is influenced by black midi, he's a frequent collaborator of SOPHIE, who is currently working with rihanna. so yes, rihanna basically makes black midi now
stretch
You mean Rihanna’s working with a person that has a friend that takes some inspiration from Black MIDI? I’d say that’s just a _tiny_ bit of a stretch.
I think black midi could carry with it some unique ideas for music, but as of right now the blackers are so carried away with getting in notes wherever they can for that extra million.
There's also the issue of how many low notes they clump together. If the blackers could stay away from that third left side of the piano roll, 1: the songs would have a lot more head room to work with, and not clip every two seconds, since lower end frequencies will eat up your headroom faster, and 2: it would clean up the track tremendously. Low frequencies don't harmonize very well, and having several just semitones apart makes the whole song unbelievably muddy.
I do think black midi is onto something though. The idea of being incomprehensibly complex is what makes the music interesting, and if I wad going to draw inspiration from black midi, that would be it. A slew of notes each with purpose, not just a slew of notes.
3:52
thx m8
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H M M . . .
What
on dope creepy??
I'm black
How did this guy know about the band that started in 2017??
Lmao
Damn, really wish This Exists was still around.
You and me both
I don't see how these black MIDI songs can cripple or kill someone's brain..Unless someone out there makes a black MIDI smoke weed version of the old pokemon lavendar town theme.
it killed my musician brain ; 0; horrible horrible sounds!
1: already done
2: any sound can kill you if it hits much past 300 decibels
When the computer can't handle black MIDI, that's racism.
I've been trying to find this stuff on vinyl for years.
"Blacker"
...
my daughter listened to this music and died. doctor said brain dead. I'm going to sue youtube for that. and for my broken computer too.
Seriously?
Yepp. Your warning wasnt big enough.
are you jk-ing?
My friend died while watching this video. They should take down the video.
You Sure?
... You know, that shitty midi-converter I saw Joel use on Vinesauce is basically a black midi maker. It all sounds like shitty piano seizures.
+ The Desert Bandit I've been using it since last year and the most I got was 50,014 notes with my cover of Keep by FACT in reverse.
Omg that's actually why I'm here XD!
+Daniel Gregory Isn't nearly as large, but it sounds similar, at least to my damaged ears.
JOHN CENA
+The Desert Bandit haha
I can't be the only person who thought he was gonna talk about the band
2:45
Lunatic Princess
Lunatic Doom Machine anyone? 8)
"2013"
uhhhhh, no
touhou 7 came out 2003
This has to be my favorite new channel to watch, Black MIDI in particular.
"....when someone's computer fully gives up and just barfs pure Black." I couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 minutes, keep up the good work!
Jacob Vance Nice, thanks!
No problem! Out of curiosity, what made you decide to start the channel?
I used to work at MTV News and did features like this when we couldn't get interviews: Seapunk Piece - Sam Sutherland [MTV NEWS CANADA]. Saw PBS Idea Channel and realized I could do something similar at my new job at AUX.
That's cool, I thought I recognized you from somewhere. Thanks for responding, I'll be looking forward to your work :)
Thanks!
Where was this when I needed a MIDI background track for my website in 1999?!
I love how both number 1 and 2 on the leader board are both black apple
Good work on it though, despite of the mistakes I've caught. I am TheTrustedComputer that makes quality black MIDIs. A few should know me.
Mistakes
1. Actually, it's 280 billion, not million.
2. The original black MIDI is not from kakakakaito1998. The true original can be traced back in 2009 where a Japanese user on Nico Nico Douga uploaded the first black MIDI in existance. If you have a Nico Nico Douga account you can watch it here: www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6896044 Else, then here: www.nicozon.net/watch/sm6896044 Sadly the original copied video on TH-cam has been removed since because of the misnamed "Death Waltz". That video was uploaded on TH-cam in 2010.
3. Perfect Cherry Blossom wasn't released in 2013, which was last year, it was released in 2003. The one game that was released in 2013 was Double Dealing Character.
4: Kaito is pronounced like Kitoe in "kite", not Kaytoe like in "okay".
I have a question. Can the human ear actually perceive all of those notes or is it mostly for visuals?
***** Ah I see. Thanks.
TTC, couldn't have said it better myself.
So how many GPUs decided to catch fire when this happened
***** dude, MIDI is capable of 128 keys (C0 - G10). Everything about MIDI usually revolves around 128 (keys, controller value maximums, instruments, banks, etc.)
"Oh good! Touhou gets recognition from a Westerner :D
Wait... PCB came out 2013? Hmmm... Next he's gonna say you fight enemies known as Gensokyo (kudos if you get the reference).
lol
+Youkai Jesus Cowboy BeBop at his computer
well I guess he's going to say Touhou 6 came from hell next.
weliky
PCB was out in 2003
This reminds me a bit of my insane experiments with the old BeOS MIDI sequencer. It allowed you to play 32767 notes per second that would cause the entire computer to freeze to a halt while blasting out an impossibly high amount of notes. Happy this exists!
Can you show us a video real time?
@@user-sus6969 I might still have an OS install CD around but haven’t had a computer that can run it in over a decade and a half. The computer I ran it on was an old PowerMac G3. A BeBox would have been a ridiculously expensive luxury at the time.
All the Touhou.
The Game Theorists led me here.
Was not disappointed. Instant sub. Love it.
Sasha Vdr Rad, thanks!
Mee toooooo!
Same here for me, except Rob Dyke brought me here, this is awesome!
Likewise :D
This Exists Roses are red, Violets are blue. Matpat is awesome, and so are you!
1:39 "k-k-kado" nooooooo
there was a ransomware where u had to play touhou to .2 billion to decrypt ur files
I'm honestly not impressed by this phenomenon at all and maybe my ears just aren't sophisticated enough to pick up the nuances but the shit just sounds like a really simple video game melody with a bunch of fucking white noise static under it. Avant garde jazz and classical music sounds a hell of a lot more layered and complex than this shit.
troodat
+Dan Cooper But it's not intended to be listened to as music. It's supposed to be funny as hell to have 7.6 million notes in a single midi song that requires the power of 4 desktop pcs to even run without a BSOD
What I want to know is: dos this music cure brain cancer or does it CAUSE brain cancer?
Well, if it doesn't do either one then it's completely useless, cuz it sounds like shit.
+Dan Cooper
It's just mentalness for the sake of it. I would overly concern myself. It's just a weird outgrowth that means nothing and has no influence outside of a small Internet Culture.
I bet you could use a creatively placed midi file in an email to crash someone's computer.
"what's this download file-"*Noise worse than a fax machine if it were trying to connect via AOL* "OH SHIT!" *black screen*
Challenge accepted
yeah after a 200 gb download lol
Ronan D There are dumb motherfuckers out there that would wait it out. Lol tell them they won something big or if they download Allah will praise them with 30 virgins.
My computer would explode trying to play this
2:05
Bad appple! :D
BRUH MY TABLET CAN EASILY RUN THIS M8
Nathan Peratikos what about 688 million? IT DOES EXIST
Oh well, time to find the structure of these songs
What structure?
with structure I meant composition*
what composition?
He's trying to pretend he knows what he's talking about.