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thegoldenband, on Mon May 7, 2012 12:53 PM, said:

As for importing MIDI files, I question whether that'd be all that useful. IMHO, the TIA's capabilities are so idiosyncratic that adapting pre-existing tunes for it usually doesn't work out that well, though there are exceptions (I was pretty happy with my Castlevania and Ballblazer adaptations). I personally don't have any trouble hand-coding the notes, and I like that kind of fine-grained control, but certainly tracker software could come in handy for quickly modeling a tune.

Just to add a single data point, I use a MIDI sequencer to compose for TIA all the time. You just need to keep TIA's limitations in mind, just as you would when hand-coding.

I had some recent success using relative tuning and transposition... this would have been pretty tedious with hand-coding values.