Africa - Toto - Mario Paint Composer
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 Published On Jul 2, 2010

Thank you everyone for making this my most popular video!

I love this song, and I hope you enjoy my interpretation in Mario Paint :)

About the video: I made this in 2010, my senior year of high school, back when Mario Paint videos were at the height of popularity. Some information about the program itself:
- The tempo was set to 2944. There was a 5 note-per-line limit of the program at the time. The tempo is set so high that notes will sound like they are played at the same time when placed on adjacent lines. This also gave me more options for volume control of each line.

- I did NOT use the vanilla Mario Paint sounds. I can and have used the original sounds included, but I personally just liked the soundfonts that other users had created(included in this video were sounds by SatoshiLyish, Cat333Pokemon, Adolfobaez, Friedfischer).
- However, I sill did all the work in the program. Each note was still individually placed, and each volume bar still manually adjusted. I did not import any MIDI file or cheat in any other way, I just changed the sound files each symbol played because I liked the way it sounded.

Thanks to all of you for making this time in my life a good time and giving me a reason to enjoy recreating and uploading Mario Paint music.

For Emily, my girlfriend when this was uploaded, now my loving wife and mother to our child. A story 15 years and counting :)

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