Sorry, I answered the original question in a bit of a rush. Very careless! Yes, you're right. MP3 converter doesn't do it to midi and, yes, it's Windows. I must get into Linux soon, possibly via Lindows :-) ------------------------------
Karl Dallas, HoustonMedia Please note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thomas Bending Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [abcusers] MIDI to WAV (was Re: abcusers-digest V1 #668) > > You need a program called Acoustica MP3 to Wave Converter (it also does > > Wav to MP3). It costs $19 or so, and you can get it from > > http://www.acoustica.com/mp3-wav-converter/download.htm > > > > Hi hope you don't mind one question, how can I turn a midi into a wave > > Depending on your machine, of course; that would be for what, Windows ? > > If you're on a linux box, "timidity" is what you need. > > ================ > Wasn't the question about turning MIDI into WAV, not MP3 into WAV? > Do these programs really do a "play the MIDI and record it in WAV > format"? Timidity certainly does exactly that. It appears from its webpage that the Acoustica program does not, but I've never tried it. > 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
