touhou-midi-collection/README.md

# touhou-midi-collection
A collection of MIDIs of the TouHou OSTs and some other arrangemrnts.

Originally was hosted on [Gamebanana](https://gamebanana.com/projects/35179), but I ~~stole~~ downloaded ~~all~~ (I'll upload all of them soon) the MIDIs and reuploaded on here for the easier access.

## Repo Contents
In the root directory, every MIDI files are separated into "TouHou Eras" to make it easier for a song to search.

Under each folder, there will be more folders with the name of each game (except if its a non-OST track). Each of them contains the MIDI files of the game. There will be multiple MIDIs for the same track. It may vary in the sounds used or notations.

### What does each Era mean?
If you are having trouble with finding the game for which you want to download the MIDI, here is a quick guide that will tell what each era means:
  1. **Retro Era** - from TouHou 1 to TouHou 5
  2. **Classic Era** - from TouHou 6 to TouHou 9 (2002 - 2005)
  3. **Modern Era 1** - from TouHou 10 to TouHou 12 (2007 - 2010)
  4. **Modern Era 2** - from TouHou 13 onwards (2010 - Present)
  5. **Spin-Offs** - Minor releases/Spin-Offs of TouHou games
  6.  **Fighting Games** - fighting games of TouHou

## How to download?
If you want to download your desired MIDI file,
  - Navigate to the folder of the track you want to download
  - Click on any one of the MIDI files
  - And then click on view raw.

In case it goes to a page of text instead of downloading the file,
  - Go back to the previous page
  - Right click on the 'view raw' link (Hold on it if you are using a phone)
  - Click on 'Download link'/'Save As'

If you want to download the entire repo, (Note: use desktop site mode on mobile browser as it doesn't work on the mobile version of the page.)
  - Go to the main page of this repo (if you aren't already here)
  - Click on the green box with the text "Code"
  - Click on download zip

If you want to download the repo using command line interface, enter the following command and run:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/AyHa1810/touhou-midi-collection.git
```

## So, what is MIDI?
MIDI means "Musical Instrument Digital Interface" and its an electronic musical instrument industry specification that enables a wide variety of digital musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. It is a set of standard commands that allows electronic musical instruments, performance controllers, computers and related devices to communicate. You can say its like an electronic score.
Very difficult to understand? Imagine this, the roll of paper that gets into a pianola, but electronic, now instead of piano you can use several different instruments, And all that added to a low spec and easily modifiable. That would be a summary of MIDI.

## How to use it?
You can play them with any MIDI player/music player that supports playing MIDI files. You should appropriate SoundFont pack for them to sound correctly.

Or, you can edit them or use them in any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that supports MIDI import (well every DAW supports MIDI Imports, I suppose).

## Contribute
If you have any MIDI(s) that are not in this repo, or if there are any mistakes in the repo, you can fork this repo, upload your MIDI file(s) or fix any mistakes and then pull request your forked repo.

The MIDIs should have relevant file name, and they should be on their respective folders. You may credit the arranger in the filename.

Note that any black MIDIs or MIDIs that are unrelated to TouHou at all are NOT allowed.

## Issues
If you have any issues or questions related to this repo, you simply can oen a new issue in the "Issues" tab. You should search for the existing issue/question before opening any new one. Unrelated issues will be closed.

## Acknowledgement 
Thanks to the admin of the [Gamebana](https://gamebanana.com/projects/35179) for maintaining the project, and all the contributors for contributing to the project.

If you want to know more about TouHou, you can visit the official [TouHou Wiki](https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki) maintained by TouHou community.