> But since MIDI is not audio, but a sequence of events, I wold think > one would have to play the MIDI and record it.
Not at all. Clearly it's *possible* to take a MIDI file and produce a sequence of signal levels representing a waveform: this is what the combination of a MIDI-playing synthesiser program plus a soundcard do in order to play a MIDI file normally. Thus one can write a single program to do this job and then save the levels as a WAV file, rather than using them to drive a speaker, and this is what Timidity (for example) does. Of course, this means that the actual sound depends on the program's choice of waveforms, but then as you point out MIDI doesn't specify the actual sound explicitly anyway: there's always got to be an instrument-like choice made somewhere. Thomas Bending ============= Yes, usually that's done in the program that plays it, or in a sequencer via SYSEX, but, it's nice to know that someone has done this. As you can tell, it's been a while since I messed with MIDI any. Just haven't felt the need for it since I started playing acoustic music, except of course when I play the ABC tunes. ;-) Rick To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
