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JK's Lost, found, and new MIDI songs?

JK_ · 2026-08-11T00:36:48+00:00

Recently, I was going through an old flash drive I found in a box. Everything on it was from 2011 or earlier, so yeah, I'm surprised it even still worked. What shocked me even more is what I found when I started digging through it. It felt like a time capsule. Way back, I used to try to use various music trackers and MIDI sequencers to try to write my own songs for games I never finished using Allegro (lol) and C/C++. I found a backup of a decent chunk of my old MIDIs and incomplete melodies along with embarrassing source code. Since the Switch is in its ninth year and I wanted a change from spending my nights programming and debugging, I decided to see if I could clean up and do something with them. I'm not a pro. I did/do this all by ear and math pretty much. Some of these are reworked songs and melodies from when I was in my teens. Some are new. Sometimes I get bored and replace the instrument samples with NES square waves. I upload them to SoundCloud, which I was recently told was probably a mistake, with AI slopped up thumbnails to save myself time. I have a thing for evil sounding church organs. I don't know why. They literally make me tear up. Here's my main SC page: https://soundcloud.com/j-d-k-vgm These are a select few: My Grandmother really liked this one. Actually, a lot people enjoy this one. This is an old one. It's not complex or anything, but I always liked it. This one has an interesting story. I actually wrote this as music for a YouTube video. Millions of people have actually heard a stripped down version of it, but nobody knows I wrote it. The YouTuber in question claimed they'd pay me, backed out of the deal (after they had the song, of course!), and never properly credited me for it. Since I wasn't paid, it's still mine, I guess. A lot of people in the comments enjoyed it more than the video. This is my most recent, new one. I got bored with orchestras and stuff. Wanted to try something different. I'm not perfect, but a lot of people are stunned I can write this stuff at all given I'm only a self taught guitarist. I have mild hearing loss in my left ear from playing metal for so long, so sometimes I mess up velocity and volume slightly. I'm aware of that. Feel free to leave me some sweet AI generated scam scripts and messages like the rest of the bots on SC. It's my favorite way to start my days now.

Thread starter Rowan
Start date Mar 1, 2009
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Rowan

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Mar 1, 2009

anyways heres my first render Good or Bad?
comment please

p1ngpong

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Mar 1, 2009

I always liked those sort of renders, I regularly have them as wallpapers.

For a first attempt its very nice!

What did you use to make it anyway?

Noitora

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Mar 1, 2009

really nice! how much did this take?

m3rox

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Mar 1, 2009

Bad. You really need to practice modeling before you even think of pulling off a render. Just placing points/polys randomly like that and thinking it's good is a very rookie move.

Sp33der

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Mar 2, 2009

lol m3rox that's a GOOD render, i make some splines then loft nurb then extrude and you really get a great render(whored render but a nice one)

Rowan

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Mar 2, 2009

m3 rox the thing is i am a rookie ¬_¬
and pingp0ng i use c4d
and it only took me about five minutes to get it right
all you do is do random scribbles in f5 mode and the lof nurb him
after that click on the loft nurb then c tools polygons
right click extrude and then move around till it looks good