Muse Game Engine
By BTS on May 10, 2026 10:42 pm
For this week's track, I decided to work with an online text to MIDI engine, using a random book pulled from Project Gutenberg. I pulled a section of text from the middle of the short story I found and put that into the MIDI generator.
After downloading the MIDI file, I found that I had a lot of data generated from the file (melody, chords, bass), so I cut the file down to it's final length by pulling a section of the file.
Afterwards, I cleaned up the melodic MIDI line by reducing the number of notes and randomizing the velocity or the remaining notes.
I then went and pulled sounds that I thought would work with the tracks. I ended up doubling the bass (creating a Sub Bass and more general bass line from two versions of the same part) and adding an additional arpeggiated part from the chords.
I also experimented with the Vocoder, using a sample set of the alphabet and the main melodic parts to feed into the effect.
After some additional mixing and EQing, I set up the mastering chain and exported the track.
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