Legend of Zelda in MIDI

December 6, 2009 10:09 AM

I need help to create the Legend of Zelda "get item" sound in MIDI

I am working on a robot that is capable of creating MIDI songs and I want it to make the sound of when you get an item in the traditional legend of Zelda games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeyKyAXJ9I&feature=player_embedded

I cannot find the notes or a MIDI guide, all I find are downloads and playback of the actual sound clip. Help please :-)

posted by kaozity to Education (7 answers total)

Is this what you're looking for?
posted by gchucky at 10:15 AM on December 6, 2009

Response by poster: I am not looking for the MIDI itself, I am looking for the notes. Sheet music would be good as i can translate that to MIDI when i program the robot. The issue is I need to manually program each note and the length.
posted by kaozity at 10:22 AM on December 6, 2009

Best answer: The notes are Ab Bb B C, in what sounds like parallel fifths.
posted by Aquaman at 10:30 AM on December 6, 2009 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: Exactly what I wanted. Thanks!
posted by kaozity at 10:42 AM on December 6, 2009

You can open it in a program like Music Master Works that turns midis into sheet music (more or less...).
posted by nikkorizz at 10:43 AM on December 6, 2009

No disrespect, Aquaman, but while your roots are right, the harmony intervals aren't parallel fifths. The last chord I believe is a C dim, spelled C, Eb, Gb.
posted by sourwookie at 9:07 PM on December 6, 2009

Sounds to me like four major chords, ascending chromatically, from F major to G# major, all in root position with possibly more than an octave between the one and five, certainly in multiple voices (instruments).
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 5:08 PM on December 20, 2009