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 |
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