I just played "Gears of wars"

[Bitmap Frogs]

TWRoO said:

Bitmap Frogs said:
To be honest, it's a shame recorded music has replaced MIDI. Sure it sounds better but you can play a lot of tricks with MIDI music (like reshaping the whole tune to match the in-game action) that are impossible to pull off with pre-canned recorded soundtracks.

Just like it happened with graphics, greater fidelity in music has led to a loss of creativity and variation.

You mean like the music changing subtly in Banjo Tooie when you go to different areas, or in SSX the music stops and restarts if you stop moving.

I like things like that... if they can only be done with MIDI then I am perfectly fine with MIDI.

 

You can do more than that: MIDI means the console generates the music real-time. You can change the pitch, the tone, everything. To be honest you can sort of replicate some of those tricks by recording a lot more music