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It has been a staple of music composition, be it in your favorite video game, DJ setlist, movie score, or pop artist; MIDI can be found everywhere electronic music is. It might not be a surprise that Koreographer Pro leans on MIDI for its most professional, expedited workflow. As we’ve covered before, Koreographer uses embedded musical data to stream information back to game systems in time with the music. If Koreographer isn’t a tool for music composition, then why use MIDI?
Music games are a dime a dozen in app stores and go all the way back to the first Parappa or Beatmania. There have been dozens of iterations on how to do the genre justice with gem smashers in Rock Band to obstacle courses in Vib Ribbon to omnidirectional commands in Guitaroo Man. They all have something in common; the method to get those punchy note placements to land right on beat. What you might not know is the process to make that happen.
