All these songs were done through GBA "theory."  What that means is, I took the tech specs from music systems such as Factor 5's MusyX or Shinen's GAX.

These songs are of various SNES Square games, the soundfont itself contains nothing but Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers SFC samples.  So, the songs will sound like they're being played from Chrono Trigger's music engine.  That was the point, because I want to show how competant I am when it comes to doing something like porting music or remaking accurately.  I also wanted to give Square a reason to have QUALITY music in a ported game if they are able to work on Game Boy Advance, because Chrono Trigger PSX is an extremely good example of how bad Square's ports of their own games are.
 

Requirements to play the .mid files:

• SoundBlaster Live! or a Soundfont (.SF2) software synthesizer and/or DLS compatible player (NOT the official WinAmp DirectMusic plugin for Microsoft's Synth!  You need a player that wont ignore bank changing mode!)
• At least 1 megabyte allocated to sound RAM (this shouldn't be a problem. ;) )
• The instruments loaded into memory.  Please look in the SBLive! or DLS equivalent docs if you don't know how to load one.  It's extremely simple.
• DO NOT have Quicktime's plugin playing the .mid files.  It ignores the bank changing mode

• Latest WinAmp with the module plugin installed, or
• Go to http://www.divent.org for the latest MikAmp.  They will play these modules fine. :)

Midi Specs for all songs:

• SBLive! limitations taken into account
• All songs remade from scratch by me through Impulse Tracker and CakeWalk Pro Audio 9
• All songs have notes cut right before next note, much like what most SNES music systems did. (Maybe it was the hardware, or maybe they did it to prevent clicks? I don't know)
• Portamentos and Vibratos are done through Pitch Wheel. (SBLive! lacks portamento controller support, and the Modulation controller is severely limiting) Pitch Wheel Sensitivity set before any Pitch Wheel amounts issued
• Loop points issued, though some songs may experience instrument glitches after loop (tried to fix it, hopefully it all is)
• Banking mode set to Controller 0 (DLS programs may have a problem with this, Direct Music Producer is the only program that will play the .mid files right. Perhaps I'll provide looped .SGT segments for download, as well)
• Highest voice count shouldn't surpass 13 channels. Most songs are 8, and anything higher are based for menu usage, only
• No MIDI file uses MIDI Channel 10.  All the drums are treated as melodic instruments.  That gives me a lot more control over the drum pitch

* - Should work in MusyX, assuming it ignores the controllers, and assuming it can handle quick patch changes. May require little or no editing to either the MIDI file, or the instrumentation.
** - Has way too many continuous controllers to be feasable, the song will have to be redone in source music program to edit out pitch bends, and be dependant on MusyX's advanced features (such as instrument portamento and pitch bend, vibrato, panbrello, the SMaL programming language, etc.)

Mathew Valente [TSSF]
tssf@home.com

Credits: Game Boy Advance is copyright of Nintendo. MusyX is copyright of Factor 5, GAX is copyright of Shin'en. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, is copyright of Square Soft. All Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger/Radical Dreamers music originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda, respectfully.  SBLive! is copyright of Creative Labs, and Soundfont is copywrite E-MU. Direct Music and Direct Music Producer are copyright of Microsoft. Quicktime is copyright of Apple. Impulse Tracker is copyright of Jeffrey Lim, and Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is copyright of Twelve Tone Systems.