Midget 3.5 Information

This is basically an improved version of Midget 3.0. Several problems have been resolved and the interface has been tidied up. There are also a few new features.

System Requirements

Required:Recommended:
Processor:166 MHz300 MHz
Memory:16 MB64 MB
Disk Space:2 MB5 MB
MIDI/Sound card:Any with MIDIYamaha XG or SB Live!
Graphics:800x600 (16 colours)1024x768 (256 colours)
Mouse?YesYes
Operating SystemWindows 95Windows ME/2000/XP

NOTE: Midget 3.51 is incompatible with the default Microsoft GS Synth device. If you try using Midget with this, it will crash. You can fix this by downloading the Midget 3.52 beta.

Highlights

Supported Devices

  • General MIDI-compatible equipment
  • Yamaha XG equipment
  • Sound Blaster Live! (with SoundFonts)
  • External MIDI input devices
  • FM synthesis devices
  • Software synthesisers

Features

  • Improved "all-in-one" configuration dialog
  • Recording from external MIDI device
  • Remote instrument selection
  • Input message type filtering
  • Easy instrument selection and editing
  • Instrument auto-detect on SB Live! / AWE cards
  • General MIDI and Yamaha XG instrument lists provided

Supported Song File Formats

  • Midget 3.0 (*.m3)
  • Midget 3.5 (*.m3) - incompatible with 3.0
  • Standard MIDI file (*.mid) - load and save

Supported Instrument List Formats

  • Midget Instrument Settings (*.mis)
  • Midget Profile Script (*.mps) - load only

Song Editing

  • Track mute LEDs
  • Bar/beat indicator during playback
  • 250 bars maximum song data
  • Time signatures from 1/4 to 9/4
  • Title/Author information
  • Song notepad (for details about songs)
  • 10 note columns
  • 2 effect columns
  • Zoom in/out 3 levels
  • Faded text to indicate velocity/value
  • Auto-increment/decrement of effect values
  • Right-click effect placement and removal
  • Chord generator
  • 25-level undo

Controls and Effects

  • Master volume slider
  • Per-track volume sliders
  • Octave slider
  • 8 initial effects sliders
  • Load/save default values

Manipulation

  • Cut, Copy, Paste Insert, Paste Over functions
  • Row insertion/deletion (per-column, track and song)
  • Transpose Up/Down functions
  • Fade Out function

Other

  • Windows Help (*.hlp) format manual

Requirements & Features