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touhou-midi-collection

A collection of MIDIs of the TouHou OSTs and some other arrangemrnts.

Originally was hosted on Gamebanana, 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 sections to make it easier for a song to search.

There will be multiple MIDIs for the same track. It may vary in the sounds used or notations.

What does each Folder Contain?

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. 1 - Shooter Games - Official TouHou series
  2. 2 - Spin-Offs - Minor mlreleases of TouHou that does not include the main plot
  3. 3 - Fighting Games - TouHou Fighting games
  4. 4 - Music CDs - ZUN over time, has released some music discs,these CDs have arrangements as well as
    exclusive music
  5. 5 - Other-Misc - Others MIDIs that doesn't really fit in the other categories
  6. 6 - Arranges - Famous Arrangements of TouHou songs
  7. 7 - Fan and Related Games - The fangames are games made by fans, many of them, without the participation
    of ZUN, the related games ZUN could be involved in some way

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 use
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).

If you want to go deeper into stuff like this and want the MIDIs to sound clost to the original, you need to
know the following info:

  • For MIDIs in TouHou 1 till 5, ZUN used Roland Edirol SC-88 Pro (1996). But since SC-88 Pro is out of
    production, you might consider using Edirol Sound Canvas VA VST. It includes soundbanks from SC-55, SC-88, SC-8820 and SC-88 Pro.
    If available, you can buy it second-handed from sites like Ebay and other sites that sells stuff like these.
    You can also use SoundFonts for SC-88 Pro.
  • For MIDIs in TouHou 6 till latest ones, ZUN used Ronald Edirol SD-90 (2001) among with several VSTs. SD-90 also have
    been discontinued since then. There is no VST for it, so you may need to rely on alternatives like THfont
    (this one is not generally recommended). If available, you can buy this one second-handed too. Though you
    may find similar sounds from it in other SoundCanvas VSTs, for example, the Romantic TP preset from SD-90
    (also popularly known as ZUNpet) is available on Roland SRX World VST as GypsyTrumpet in bank PR-A.

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. You can also
send MIDIs in the Issues tab and I'll add them to the 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 Tremolo Measure (admin of the Gamebana) 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 maintained by TouHou community.