"One Stop" Microsoft MIDI song in MIDIjam

[@realdustydane]

2:44 i almost cried WHY!? MICROSOFT

[@fede142857]

Come on, dude, you can't cry while listening to this... _skips to that part_ Oh damn you are right. It seems depressing for some odd reason. Feels weird man.

[@EVRLYNMedia]

me too :( it like seeing the credit roll after beating a really long game

[@voca-chan7953]

It’s like when someone dies but it’s happy music

[@JamesTube]

3:12 sounds like the ending of an emotional movie

[@distar7471]

It must've been at least 9 years since I first came across these videos. It's funny that I still recognized your channel. Greetings from the future.

[@dogman15]

Cool, thanks! If you have the time, check out some of my other or more recent videos, too.

[@dogman15]

I think, in some ways, it's epic. It goes through all these different styles, using so many different instruments. I had to think carefully to decide which instruments I wanted to film.

[@Skar271]

Oh my holy FREAKING GOD. I got my comp from my grandma and she's had it , well, I don't know how long. I found these MIDIs on here: Onestop, Town, Flourish, all of those. I had NO FREAKIN CLUE what they were and where they came from. I thought from the sound of it that MAYBE it was Final Fantasy, but how could that be on my comp? Well you, good sir, just put the puzzle pieces together. THANK YOU.

[@MrAwesomedude808]

1:05-1:33 Thug: 'ey. You got some dough for me? Guy: uh.... no. thug: I'm gonna shoot 'cha! *Bang flag comes out of gun* *at **1:22**, they do a vaudeville dance with a tip of the hat at the end*

[@Taconiel]

MrAwesomedude808 LMAO

[@deftcoleman0552]

2:44 I love that part!

[@nazacro]

Always thought it resembles the life cycle...

[@RockMadeHome]

That's a good point

[@dogman15]

I don't think the vibe was destroyed. It transitions very nicely, in my opinion. The point of this whole song is to go through many different musical styles.

[@dogman15]

@usalt2: And "Clouds" came with Windows 95 because the startup screen was over a fluffy-white-clouds-with-blue-sky background, as well as those puffy clouds being one of the main desktop backgrounds. I'm not sure what the idea behind Passport was, but the full title of Canyon is "Trip Through the Grand Canyon". As for Town and Flourish? Who knows that the composer was thinking.

[@fabian999ification]

Memories of Windows XP. Brings of a tear of 2006 and stuff. :)

[@rallyivan1234]

0:39 Sonic the Hedgehog style song :)

[@captus2975]

sounds a lot more like something from streets of rage

[@notbutz9737]

Vsauce

[@LG633TV]

CHiPS

[@MLopezM1994]

Or WarioWare

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001 I agree. He should get on that. On the other hand, there's a lot of work involved in modeling a new 3D instrument and programming it to correctly respond to specific MIDI data.

[@Fellwurstchen]

it is even on windows 10 (hope im not the only one)

[@matthew3p]

Felwurst von der Moffel it is C:/Windows/Media

[@EVRLYNMedia]

windows xp for sure

[@Thaleitata]

Thank you so much, I was looking for this song for about half a year :D

[@dogman15]

Each keyboard represents a separate MIDI channel. If you make two channels for one piano part so that the left and right hands can be panned to the left and right ears, each hand will be on a different piano. In essence, channel = keyboard. Same thing goes for guitars and stuff. Monophonic instruments like trumpets and flutes will double up even if they're on the same channel if more than one note is sounded at once.

[@dogman15]

@kevinmacha: You know, I have a vauge memory of that test. I don't know where we would have heard the other two songs. Canon (the camera maker) included a MIDI with one of their devices once. Remember that?

[@midorifox]

1:08 - 1:20 I like this part as it reminds me some Noir films. 1:21 - 1:33 It reminds me Casinopolis from the Sonic series

[@TheWolvesGang]

1:21 Sounds like the end theme song to a show that I would really like. It feels kind of nostalgic for some reason, like this was in a cartoon.

[@richardperks7776]

Yeah, maybe something about some sort of mythical creatures like maybe fairies or something

[@fishwigy]

Fairy oddparents

[@gamerawesome64dd91]

3:13 That's part made me cry ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[@huehuemaster666]

This is my JAM My MIDIjam, so to speak

[@domenikterrorwolf699]

0:00 - 0:28 i want a 10h version of this part xD

[@cmgTFfan1084]

That was the most interesting song I have ever heard!

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 actually here are all invisible instruments in this song english horn, clarinet, sitar, seashore

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 i think reverse cymbal would be somthing like a levitating cymbal shaking or an upside down cymbal and the stick would move away from it, and i think bird tweet would be something like a bird moving its mouth when it makes aound or 12 bird species and each sings a different key.

[@dogman15]

@psychoclown420: As far as I know, it's not "from" anything. This is an original song by David Yackley that was included in all copies of Windows XP and Vista, and perhaps also Windows Me or 2000.

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: The top of the MIDIjam download/info page has Scott's bowling clipart-like pictures. He's developed a bowling game for the PC in the past.

[@dogman15]

@shortwavesam: MIDIjam does that either automatically, or by way of the number buttons on your keyboard. Why not download it (it's free) and try it for yourself? It's pretty fun!

[@neonate4406]

Honestly the beginning is a lot better than the rest of the track. I think he should of made longer versions of each segment, that'd of been nice.

[@samwilk9807]

A Major always cheers me up

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: CamStudio (and other programs like it, like HyperCam) record any and (almost) all images on your computer screen. This works for either a segment of the screen or the entire screen. You can also record audio at the same time, but I find adding it in later easier.

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: You're right. There are some low horn notes there playing the bass notes we can't see.

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: You already suggested the floor filling with an inch of water for seashore, but what about those other two? A bird sitting on top of the tom-toms? And I have no idea what a reverse cymbal would look like.

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 if you wanna check what instruments are invisible, use midilist, itll help

[@foxxyknoxxyx7192]

Aww good old memories!!

[@MegoZ_]

nice >:]

[@kabanfriends5764]

ms2onestop.mid

[@TrizBroStudios]

What is the instrument/synth type playing the really punchy notes (first one is an F)? in the second section.

[@dogman15]

Sounds like the "orchestra hit" instrument to me. It's program 56 in General MIDI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

[@Creaphis]

I've actually managed to track down more music by this guy. Except, as far as I've been able to tell, this is the best song he ever wrote. -_-

[@ripleyfuriosa5701]

Mom, can we get some Animusic? "No, you have Animusic at home" *Animusic at home:*

[@dogman15]

Pretty much literally.

[@dogman15]

@FullOfDaisuke: Were people talking specifically about this video of mine on 4Chan, or just the "One Stop" song itself?

[@dogman15]

@Xyaron666: Parts of it, perhaps. Certainly not the jazz or big band parts.

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: Yeah, I kinda figured that. Putting them in involves creating new models/animations for the instruments and coding how they'll respond to a given MIDI voice.

[@dogman15]

@EMOHOLACAWST: If you have the original MIDI file and the right software, the notes are all there and you can probably find out the tabulation.

[@SuperComplexGames]

The beginning (0:00 - 0:39) is really deep...

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: Nope, not yet! Scott says it (and other instruments like the banjo and woodwind instruemnts) will be in a future release. This is version 1.12.

[@dogman15]

@Creaphis: I haven't really seen much of David Yackley's other work, but then again, I haven't really tried to look.

[@dogman15]

@Gold171: It is very eighties, isn't it? Just like "Passport", another MIDI file hidden on earlier Windows versions.

[@dogman15]

@MegaMG42: If the MIDI isn't already on your computer, find it online somewhere, and then use NEMIDi to solo just the guitar track(s). Run that through another program to figure out what the notes are. That's the best advice I can offer.

[@dogman15]

You'd be surprised how well MIDI can imitate an orchestra with the right samples. Just listen to the work that Steffan Andrews did on songs like "At the Gala", "Find a Pet", and "This Day Aria". Supposedly, Mike Morasky's music in Team Fortress 2 is MIDI-based, too. I can't confirm that; it might be real instruments at times.

[@dogman15]

@shortwavesam: Er... that's an intersting description. So you think all MIDIjam videos on KZbin are this (including mine)? A "Bill Gates" style? :-/

[@jeremoople]

This sounds like a nostalgic Sega game. Not any one in particular, just in general

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: I didn't know, so I had to go looking through my videos to find out. "Baby Elephant Walk" was my first uploaded MIDIjam video.

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: You're right! While Scott made a French horn, there's no English horn. Where in this song does it play?

[@cartadeajuste1]

I love this midi!!!

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: I highly doubt that web searches on Google or Bing or internal Wikipedia searches would yield no results for "MIDIjam" or "MIDI jam" or variants. I'm not sure what version of CamStudio I have off-hand.

[@dogman15]

@Skar271: I'm glad I could shed a little light on the situation.

[@dogman15]

@MajorSilvaa: Download the program yourself and run it at 1024x768 instead of viewing a low-res 640x480 video degraded by CamStudio. The graphics are great considering that Scott Haag created it all himself, including modeling the instruments and programming them to respond to MIDI instructions. Sure, the graphics aren't as good as Animusic, but these instruments have to be generic and universal to play any MIDI file AND run on a personal computer. (Animusic is specific and high-end.)

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

i cant believe they didnt add seashore yet! i wonder what it would look like? i think itll look like this: the floor becomes water. i also cant wait for reverse cymbal and bird tweet

[@dogman15]

I recorded the program in action with CamStudio, or perhaps some other program, and then I combined the .AVI file with an MP3 from Audacity in Windows Movie Maker. Then I uploaded the .WMV file to KZbin.

[@verycreativeusername7203]

I like how people are still watching this 10 years later

[@dogman15]

Me too.

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 i dunno, in the classic part? (i might not be right, but that's what i think)

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 yes, i know, but its like taking him forever to complete 1.13! it's been like 3 years!

[@dogman15]

I'm not sure whether that's Spanish or French, but this program is MIDIjam, and I used CamStudio and Audacity to record it. Does that answer your question, "What program do you utilize?"

[@dogman15]

In 2011, the word population was 6,973,738,433 - so nearly 7 billion. I think other people would agree with me that the transitions in this song, at least at the point you mention, were not abrupt.

[@dogman15]

@calahoon22: Maybe that was an intentional reference by David Yackley.

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 hopefully all 28 instruments including percussion will all be in v.1.13.

[@dogman15]

And I ain't stopping them.

[@dogman15]

@allensingley: There's no official story, but the history I can gleam from circumstantial evidence leads me to believe that David Yackly created this MIDI during the creation of Windows Me, and Microsoft put it in the "[root]:\WINDOWS\Media" folder as a hidden bonus, or as a way for users to test their computer's ability to play MIDI files, if they had no other MIDI files to test with. I don't know. Maybe there's a more detailed story about this song somewhere else on the internet.

[@KingBobXVI]

The ending of every family movie and sitcom in the '90s

[@bpmagruder]

Clarinet and Sitar, along with other ethnic and reed instruments, such as Koto, Kalimba, Oboe, and English Horn, are not implemented yet.

[@dogman15]

Are you asking me? The MIDI is probably on your computer, and if not, you can record the audio here.

[@dogman15]

@guitarman856: I don't know that song, nor do I have a MIDI file of it on my computer that I can run through MIDIjam.

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

@dogman15 i've been waiting for reverse cymbal, seashore, and bird tweet

[@dogman15]

@scotland282: Indeed! I'd like to hear anything else that David Yackley has done.

[@dogman15]

@Miles75HD: I'm not even sure if that's an accurate reflection of a computer's actual frames-per-second output. MIDIjam runs on any computer, and it gives you a set amount of configuaration settings: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200. I usually run at 1024, except when I'm recording, when I run it at 640. You get a bit depth of 16 or 32, and refresh rates ranging from 60 (what I use), 70, 72, 75, 85, 100 and 120. My guess is that the 'FPS' you see is MIDIjam-internal

[@dogman15]

@leehsin001: You said "they", but may I remind you that this was all created by one guy: Scott Haag.

[@Gold171]

sounds like the intro to one of those tv shows in the 80s at 0:38

[@heello2u465]

how do I make it play different songs? it just keeps playing the rockytheme and the colors spaz out.

[@dogman15]

Merely double-clicking the MIDIjam icon to run the program has it run its default song, which is the Rocky theme. In the ZIP folder you downloaded from Scott Haag, there should be a "readme.txt" file, along with all of the other MIDI files the program comes with as well as a MIDI Search program and a configuration program (for other settings such as display resolution). (Make sure you unzip the folder and its contents, first.) In that Readme file, you'll find that the instructions say to drag any MIDI file onto the MIDIjam.exe program, or onto a shortcut to it on your desktop or wherever. The Readme also has instructions on how to set things up so that you can right click on a MIDI file from anywhere on your computer and have MIDIjam be one of the program options to open up MIDI files with, in addition to programs like Windows Media Player.

[@heello2u465]

thank you. yesterday, I had found out I can drag them onto the program's icon.

[@scm64entertainment44]

wait wait wait wait. does this sound like snes music? or not? i tried synthfont and i thought it would be snes music.

[@dogman15]

This is just the default Microsoft MIDI samples that come with Windows XP and related operating systems.

[@Algeriawindows69]

sounds more like an ms-dos game

[@snifflmup]

where can i listen to the last two minutes of onestep

[@dogman15]

What do you mean?

[@dogman15]

@jklug11: It's the next best thing for General MIDI on your PC!

[@dogman15]

@Chacha5678: Because Microsoft wanted to do something nice by throwing in an Easter egg for people who go snooping about in their hard drive?

[@dogman15]

That's either an opinion or an attempt at trolling. Hundreds, if not thousands based on views, of other people enjoy this song, so you appear to be in the minority. You're welcome to express that opinion, though. I, for one, like this song. It goes through many different styles to demonstrate the capabilities of MIDI, and it shows the compositional abilities of David Yackley.

[@AstralSandwich]

@MajorSilvaa 1:40 FIRE BREATHING FLUTE!!!

[@retrozvoc6189]

This is the story of Windows XP, how it made our lives better, how Windows 10 killed, and how one day we will have it back.

[@hibbiea8841]

1:59 Does it sound like School Day by The Simpsons?

[@rockdjjs7650]

3:29 funky

[@amateurprogrammer25]

well looks like somebody might want to upgrade his rig... 0:16 - 2 FPS. Come on. Also nice HD. Where did you find this program? I really want it now. It's like Animusic but generated on the fly.

[@dogman15]

Amateur Programmer This was February 2010, and I no longer have the laptop I used to record this. The laptop itself ran MIDIjam (right there in the video title) pretty well, but my capture software dropped frames a lot. My current computer is much better, but I don't have capture software installed. I do have MIDIjam, though. I'm on my phone, so I can't easily provide a link to where you can get MIDIjam.

[@amateurprogrammer25]

Sorry if that came off as rude. I certainly didn't intend it that way. MidiJAM has its own FPS counter and it was ... a little strained for a few moments there. Surprisingly enough the rest of the song it was completely fine. The author of MidiJAM has a Pentium II though (the program was released in 2007) which explains a few things (why MidiJAM auto camera movement is so jerky, why it has an FPS counter at all, and why the instruments suddenly disappear when they're done playing - to save resources and keep the comptuer from having to draw them all). I kinda wish it was more configurable though. But I don't remember accepting a license agreement when I first launched MidiJAM (I'm still shocked that it's free to download!) -- TO THE DECOMPILER!

[@dogman15]

If you figure out a way to have more control over MIDIjam's camera(s) or instruments, that would be amazing. If only more instrument models could be added; looks like Scott stopped working on it.

[@amateurprogrammer25]

Oh yeah. Number keys. Says in the readme.

[@dogman15]

I already know about the number keys, I've read everything in the Readme file, so there's very likely nothing you can tell me about this program that I don't already know. You said that you were going to decompile it, which is why I said "Let me know what you find."

[@NoFish_]

I remember the first time I discovered onestop. It was at 5 AM

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: This was a month ago. Things change a lot. Making one of these videos takes 20 minutes, tops. (Bonus point if you get the movie I just referenced.)

[@LegoDoesGameing]

0:39 Sounds like HellSings Theme and 0:01 -0:39 Sounds like supermario RPG!

[@Umbreongodofhalo]

39 does somewhat. How did you notice that!?

[@soldierinabottle1163]

0:01 - 0:37 sounds like DK Country theme... lel

[@echostar69]

I still can't seem to recall what program in Windows actually initializes this midi song. I'm not talking about this program in the video, but the program that plays all the hidden midi songs in Windows. can someone tell me?

[@dogman15]

I don't think there is one. I think it's just a MIDI file they put there for people to find and enjoy with whatever program they want. Same with Canyon, Clouds, Flourish, and Town.

[@echostar69]

Dogman15 I just found out that Flourish is used for the DXDiag test. and the others are confirmed to be easter eggs. just thought you'd be interested in knowing that.

[@gluGPU]

They aren't Easter eggs, apparently they're supposed to be there so that whenever someone had trouble playing .mid files there would be no need to download a MIDI since there are already 3 installed.

[@m3tr0idgrl]

What’s the other song called? Cause this one and the other one are both my favorite hidden songs

[@dogman15]

Is it not in the video title?

[@m3tr0idgrl]

@@dogman15 no.... there are 2 songs.... this one and another one

[@m3tr0idgrl]

@@dogman15 i found it........ its called town.. i thought that they didnt carry the old xp songs over to newer versions of windows but i was mistaken

[@dogman15]

@@m3tr0idgrl There are 3 with Windows XP. The other two are Town and Flourish. They're on my channel; just search for them.

[@m3tr0idgrl]

flourish is the 3rd one that i forgot about

[@psychoclown420]

what's the first part from?

[@allensingley]

What is the story on this song? Why is it on windows at all?

[@PhilLeeVGKing1]

2:29 wow, no sitar yet?

[@ReAmemiyaFREAK]

this sounds like the kinda stuff I have on my phone for the alarm clock

[@rosimeridossantos8103]

1:21 Vinheta do Programa do Jô (Brasil)

[@kuykuy188]

Quem fez primeiro? Hahaha

[@dogman15]

@angel20434: To upload a MIDIjam video, you must first have MIDIjam on your computer and working. Find a MIDI file of the song you want it to play. Use screen capture software like CamStudio to record what MIDIjam does, and (this is what I do) separately record the audio played through Windows Media Player into audio recording software like Audacity on a second computer. Put the CamStudio video clip and the WAV file together in Windows Movie Maker. Post to KZbin.

[@SlimbTheSlime]

funny how all you need these days is Start+Shift+R

[@TheDudeaBides96]

0:26 my favorite part. :)