Nice stuff guys. However, FinaleTI's stuff gives me ERR:INVALID when trying to run the compiled versions of them

oh ok

I'll give this a try later.

Yeah, when you open up the midi in Noteworthy, make sure that it splits all the 'instruments' into different channels and then locate the bass by right clicking and viewing Staff Properties. Sometimes they are a little vague with the descriptions (I think Cannonball had around 3 or 4 'Standard Kit's) so you might have to sift through them.

Another way to soften the bass and lower notes is to combine the instruments that sound similar.Yet another way is to just force all the channels to be merged on open so that all the notes are put onto one staff, which takes out some quality of the song, but sometimes sounds better when played through the calc 'speaker'.

Basically, you just have to play around with it so see what sounds best on calc. It is a little repetitive to keep having to go through all the steps when converting it into data, but it feels great when you hear it play on the calc and it has that Gameboy quality (which in this case, is a good thing).

EDIT:Don't want to doublepost, so I'll just put it here. I wanted to see how something sounded, and it turned out nice.

I love the quality of the new Freq().

It's actually a perfect example, because you can really hear the difference between the old and the new. That Appvar sounds cool as well. It does get boring scrolling down 14k of data to paste the music player and put a ->Str1. Can't wait to convert some new songs when you release it.

Okay, here it is.  I tried to include a variety of samples for your listening pleasure.  The new format is really compact, its nearly a kilobyte per minute depending on the speed of the song.  It supports all types of midi, up to 8 note chords, 16 simultaneous tracks, and the full 11 midi octaves.  The program works the same as last time, just drag the midi file over the program and it will convert your song into 2 different formats.  One is an appvar, the other is the hex code (no text version this time).  The player is set up right now for appvar playing and I took out the rotating happy face to lighten it up as much as possible, songs play immediately when you run the file.  If you want to create visualizations, be my guest.

There is one setting you might want to adjust which is what I call the "note density".  Its the time argument of the freq() command.  Right now I have it set to what I have found to be a good medium time of 3200 but you might want to make it lower for songs with a lot of chords or higher for those that are mostly single notes.  If songs play too slow or fast, then this is what you should adjust.

Also, for best results, I would remove any drum tracks from the midi files.  Other types of bass tracks should convert fine.

I'm so glad I learned linked lists in my data structures class.  I had to design my own custom linked lists to get this working. 

*drools

I especially like the appvar method of playing; makes my program list way less cluttered

Megaman 3 Intro

Here's another re-upload of mine! It's "X vs Zero" from Megaman X5. Any Megaman fan should have heard this song. If not.... Then download it!

A good speed for this song in the Freq command is 1500.