Hi,
After work yesterday I spent about two hours playing with a variety of
methods to convert MIDI files to .wav files.

Without any doubt in my mind, the most accurate, cleanest and what I
found the easiest way to convert the files was to play the MIDI file in
either JukeBox or Media player, patch the head phone output of the
computer amplifier to the line input of the cassette deck and record.
Then play-back the recording into any program that records .wav files
using the line-input on the soundcard.

I did try three combinations of internally converting files but in
every case, perhaps because I don't have a super fast computer or a lot
of RAM, there was more noise, some amount of flutter and a loose of
clear stereo separation.

I also tried WAVmaker which worked perfectly, but the file I ended up
with was 41,356,832 bytes and the song was about three minutes long.

About 1.5 hours into the test, after producing the "huge" .wav file
just mentioned, I got to thinking, "Why am I converting
.mid to .wav anyhow?" Personally, I couldn't think of a reason.

Musically, John Tuttle

 [ Editor's Note:
 [
 [ At 44,100 Khz sampling rate, 16 bits per sample, stereo,
 [ 41.3 megabytes is 234 seconds.
 [
 [ The reason that one might want to "capture samples" is to
 [ be able to do further signal processing in the digital
 [ domain without degrading the signal.  Some years ago I
 [ wrote a program which "emulated" a 97 key Mortier.  From time
 [ to time I think about making digital recordings of each
 [ individual pipe of a real Mortier, and then writing
 [ a program to take a Mortier score (book music) and generate
 [ the audio.  The AWE-32 has downloadable wave tables which might
 [ make some of the computation easier.  It doesn't play enough notes
 [ at one time to do all the computations simultaneously.  By reading
 [ the digital output back into disk, it would be possible to do
 [ a digital quality "mixdown" later, after computing each division
 [ of the organ seperately.  Frankly, I may be the only one in
 [ the entire group interested in such trivia.  Sorry if its wasted
 [ your time!
 [
 [ Jody