Converting MIDI to WAV
By Bill Jelen
> 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.
--Bill Jelen
[ Editor's Note:
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[ In principal, it should be possible to capture the samples from
[ a synthesizer such as the SoundBlaster AWE-32. I've not read
[ the documentation closely enough to see if this is supported.
[
[ There have been a number of attempts over the years to do
[ "CPU based synthesis". My first contact with computers
[ and music was in the early '70's, when it was the ONLY way
[ to do it. Digital synthesizers had not been invented.
[ In fact ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits)
[ had not been invented. With the increase in speed of CPUs
[ its becoming faster to do the complicated signal processing
[ like reverb, but it _IS_ work.
[
[ I (obviously) have a personal interest in direct synthesis. Please
[ keep us informed of programs and/or procedures for directly
[ generating and capturing audio samples without involving audio tape.
[
[ Thanks
[ Jody
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