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Subject:Can Sound Forge... Posted by: Dj_Dracula Date:11/3/2001 8:57:20 AM convert midi to wav? If not, what can?
Subject:RE: Can Sound Forge... Reply by: jgalt Date:11/3/2001 11:33:15 AM Hello, I have not done this so I can't verify it. I am told that Winamp, with the proper plug-ins can write a wave (.wav) file while playing a midi (.mid).
Subject:RE: Can Sound Forge... Reply by: Dj_Dracula Date:11/3/2001 1:06:55 PM I have a midi thing that can save a midi file to a disk. I dont want to have to buy the plugins and I dont want to move the midi thing. I can record, but the sound is always distroted because I have a low quality input device. Another problem is that I dont have a recording studio.
Subject:RE: Can Sound Forge... Reply by: bv Date:11/15/2001 8:41:52 PM DJ; A midi file is only a set of messages and commands that tell a midi player device what to play. I think the only way to do it is to use a midi player such as a midi keyboard and hook up to the line out plugs. This line out signal will be in wave form and you can record it. That's the way I understand it. I could be wrong.
Subject:RE: Can Sound Forge... Reply by: Rednroll Date:11/15/2001 10:08:13 PM BV you are absolutely correct. A midi file is nothing more than data recorded of a performance. It's information that tells WHEN you hit a note, HOW LONG you held the note, HOW HARD you played the note, and HOW QUICKLY you released the note. This information is then used to play back sounds that are stored on either a Keyboard, or a soundcard which has stored sounds on it. You can think of a midi file like a Player piano roll. The roll does not contain the audio, it contains the information to make the piano hit the keys. Most likely if a program is able to convert midi to wave, then that program has some kind of sound samples within the program which get's triggered by the midi data. Pretty useless feature. I actually find a program that converts from Wave to Midi a much more useful tool. Then you can take a piano performance and convert it to a midi file and then have the midi file play an entirely different sound. I've done this with guitar performances when I couldn't figure out the key signature. Don't even try doing this with a mixed song though.
Subject:RE: Can Sound Forge... Reply by: vanblah Date:11/15/2001 11:53:03 PM In my experience with midi to .wav converters (such as midi2wav available in demo from download.com), you are MUCH better off just recording from an external keyboard. The quality you get from the converter is going to be worse than the quality you get from a bad input. I haven't messed with them in years though, and for all I know they've improved. Rednroll is right, they use your soundcard's sample set, and there are some sound cards out there with really good ones. But you are saying your soundcard has poor quality when recording, so I doubt your soundcard has a decent sample set.