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Converting MIDI to WAV (Digest 96.09.06)
By Tommy Anderberg

> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 8:14:00 -0400
> From: "Jelen, Bill" <bjele@tlxusak1.telxon.com>
> To: rolls@foxtail.com (Automatic Roll List)
>
> Subject: Converting MIDI to WAV
>
> > As far as converting .mid to .wav, that is possible but requires a
> > little bit of ingenuity. First you must "play" the MIDI file into
> > a cassette recorder (using the audio output jacks on the computers audio
> > amplifier) then "play" the recording into the microphone or line input
> > jacks on the computers sound card. The "record" levels can usually be
> > tested at the sound card's control panel to avoid distortion.
>
> There is a great piece of shareware called WAVmaker that will
> create a WAV file direct from MIDI. It runs under MS-DOS.
> The trial version I saw last year was not as slick as some would
> like, but was very functional. It was written by Tommy Anderberg.
> It worked great for the piano pieces I ran through it.
> Contact the author, tommy.anderberg@abc.se to find where the
> trial version is available.
>

The current version number is 2.3. It runs under Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/NT (separate 16 and 32 bit builds are available). There are also real time add-ons (which can function in stand-alone mode): the MIDInight Express (real time renderer) and the Mellosoftron (live sampler). Both the latter are for Windows 95 only.

All WAVmaker stuff can be found at WAVmaker's Home Page,

  http://www.abc.se/~m9303

- Tommy

[ Editor's Note:
[
[ I must not have been paying attention. How convenient that the
[ author of WAVmaker is a [long time] subscriber to this group!
[
[ It will be a few days before I have time to download the program
[ and learn how to use it myself, but I'm excited to try it out.
[
[ Tommy, have you tried processing the band organ tune "Painting the Town",
[ which is in the FTP archive on foxtail ?
[
[ ftp://ftp.foxtail.com/pub/automatic-music/misc/pntgr4b.zip
[
[ Thanks for writing about your program.
[
[ Jody

(Message sent Sat 7 Sep 1996, 16:40:42 GMT, from time zone GMT+0200.)

Key Words in Subject:  96.09.06, Converting, Digest, MIDI, WAV

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