MIDI to MP3?

Bebop Crew · Post by **Bebop Crew** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:09 am

I know it can be done but I haven't seen any programs that'll do it yet >.< help me!

madmallard · Post by **madmallard** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:34 pm

uh, if the midi device is internal on your sound board, just use winamp's wave recorder diskwriter output.

Iamshadowkiller · Post by **Iamshadowkiller** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:32 pm

if you're willing to dish out just a tincie winsie bit of cash for a high quality program...get wingroove...midi to wav...makes the midi sound even better than it was to start with ....

from wav you can go to mp3...

nice to see there's someone out there who does this too...

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maciko · Post by **maciko** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:41 am

Effectively midi is only a control file.. i.e. all it is, is code that controls musical instruments designed to read that code, similar to a pianola with a drum that plays the notes. Generally when you download the midi file and play it, it will use the sounds that your soundcards is programmed to play on particular channels. Technically you can't "convert" a midi file to a WAV or any audio file for that matter, however you certainly can capture the arrangement and instrumentation (Sound/music) once the midi file has an "instrument to play" Some software such as Sonar, Cubase will appear to do a "conversion" for you but what in fact is happening is that the midi file is payed internally in the software and the allocated sounds are written as music during the file process.

However if you do not have programs that I mentioned above, you can quite easily record the sound out of your computer onto another medium.
A handy little trick is to plug the audio from your computer into a handy cam, hit record and record your song, furthermore you can now import the audio as a file into your PC via firewire from your camera, then use your video software to export as an "audio only" file such as WAV

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:09 pm

This is a round-about way to do it, but a succesful trick that I've used for archiving internet radio shows. I bought a stero splitter (what you'd use to plug two headphone sets into one CD player, for instance) and a short stereo patch cord. I plug the splitter into my sound cards audio out, then my speakers and one end of the patch cord into the splitter. Then I plug the other end of the patch cord into the audio input. This way I can hear what I'm going to record, and just use any program that will record through your sound cards input. I use Audacity or CDex. Windows Movie Maker also works, but you have to record it as a video and then seperate it by your own means, such as VDub.

So there's one option. You'd have to buy a couple pieces of hardware, but that shouldn't cost you more than about $10, unless you shop at Radio Shack. Good luck.

Erigad_the_Wanderer · Post by **Erigad_the_Wanderer** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 10:25 am

I know that if you were running linux (hey, you might be able to try this on knoppix), you could use timidity to create a wav (or even mp3 or ogg) output from a midi file.

maciko · Post by **maciko** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:51 am

gangstaj8 wrote:This is a round-about way to do it, but a succesful trick that I've used for archiving internet radio shows. I bought a stero splitter (what you'd use to plug two headphone sets into one CD player, for instance) and a short stereo patch cord. I plug the splitter into my sound cards audio out, then my speakers and one end of the patch cord into the splitter. Then I plug the other end of the patch cord into the audio input. This way I can hear what I'm going to record, and just use any program that will record through your sound cards input. I use Audacity or CDex. Windows Movie Maker also works, but you have to record it as a video and then seperate it by your own means, such as VDub.

So there's one option. You'd have to buy a couple pieces of hardware, but that shouldn't cost you more than about $10, unless you shop at Radio Shack. Good luck.

A splendid idea! Just make sure you have a full duplex sound card. (A card the can play and record simultaneously) otherwise you may come across some problems, I think, you'll be right.
Try to keep the cable suggested above, as short as possible, try to buy a well shielded cable, sometimes you could come across problems where you get unwanted noise such as "buzz" mostly generated by a your PC and you monitor.
Hint, turn the output from you card as loud as you can and the input all the way down then bring it up until the level is satisfactory. By this method you will have your "clean" level well above any noise possibly induced into your cable, thus masked well below the desired signal.