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Oct 03 2007

Logic Environments: Connect Logic to Nintendo NES via MIDINES

MIDINES Nintendo NES game system with MIDI

Logic’s Environment, a modular layer in the program for creating custom configurations, isn’t well known to many Logic users. But if you can get used to its slightly unusual interface, it’s capable of some really powerful stuff. You know, important music stuff. Like connecting Logic to your Nintendo NES game system. Jonathan Flugel writes:

The MIDINES evironment was created based on this chart:
http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_midi_chart.php

The environment allows for control of the 5 channels of synth/audio that the NES [supports]

Here are the 5 parts:
1-2 - Pulse Synthesizer waves
3-4 - Triangle/Square waves
5- sample channel

Since this is also my primary template for a Logic session there are other goodies I left in there:

1. NYC compression bus channel
2. 3 bus channels that I got from Hybrid (electronic group) for simple drum processing
3. MPC groove templates taken from an MPC 60
4. Ableton Live and Reason ReWire objects

There you have it: Logic + NES + MPC + Live + Reason. If that’s not a digital dream studio, I don’t know what is.

MIDI NES environment in Logic 8

In case you want to give this file a look:
MIDINES.zip
That’s the MIDINES, Logic 8 file (if anyone has a MIDINES but Logic 7, let us know and we can share the Logic 7 file.)

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14 Comments

Peter

Added this to the Midines yahoo group

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Midines/files/

To join the Logic 7 environment, And Cubase Sx, Novation25, live6, and vsti enviroments to control Midines

October 3, 2007 @ 11:36 am

dead_red_eyes

Wow.

October 3, 2007 @ 1:38 pm

Chris

I love the midines so much although haven’t found such a practical use for it yet. Mostly I just show it off to people who come over to prove my geekiness (as if my manga collection didn’t do that already…)

October 3, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

Jonathan Flugel

Sweet! My environment has been posted :)

October 3, 2007 @ 6:22 pm

nick maynard

wait, i’m not entirely clear what this means. you can control NES sounds from your computer? you can control your computer from your NES? you can record your NES music as midi info?

October 3, 2007 @ 11:25 pm

campbell

logic 7 environment pretty please!!! (midines needs a frieeeeeeeeend)

October 4, 2007 @ 1:34 am

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October 4, 2007 @ 1:47 am

Veqtor

for a good example of the midines in action, have a listen to venetian snares song “pwntendo” off the “cavalcade of glee and dadaist happy hardcore pom poms”-album.

October 4, 2007 @ 5:52 am

Matt

What cartridge is that in there for the hardware connection? Are there instructions anywhere for making/getting it?

October 4, 2007 @ 8:10 am

Peter Kirn

Sorry — more on MIDINES here:
http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php

October 5, 2007 @ 12:47 am

Membrain

Oh my god! I have been waiting for this day. I bought a nintendo power glove 5 years ago and an old NES system a little while later. Does this thing mean i can use the powerglove to control Live??? Please???

October 5, 2007 @ 2:54 am

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