Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer

Re:Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer by ampdepolymerase on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:45PM (#27946257)

Modern ads focus on pathos and ethos. They want you to identify with a tribe/idea, they want you to feel something so you will be compelled to buy it. Look at some movie theatre car ads. They are all about "freedom" or "power" or "control".

For tech companies, Google product ads are always about a "smart and quirky" way of life, Apple is about privacy/connectivity/whatever the trend of day is. For Microsoft, it is productivity. For Facebook, bringing people together and empowerment.

Most of it is bull**** but it works much better than a raw summary of specifications.

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Re:Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer by chrisdirkis on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:20AM (#27947428)

I believe the question was more about clarifying point (c) of the grandparent. At a guess, it's the comparison to programming audio into the SNES by hand, showing a clear value proposition in comparison to the baseline.

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Re:Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer by ant6n on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:00AM (#27948520)

Yes, thank you. I thought there exist other SNES cartridges that help you make music, and this one`s better. But I guess the alternative is "program the chip". Which is definitely much more difficult.

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Re:Super MIDI Pak – Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer by unixhero on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:31PM (#27946464)

Someone give this man a bachelor in marketing. Bravo!

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