Encode MIDI file to MP3

[David1105]

I'm trying to figure out a way to convert MIDI format audio file to MP3 audio. The graph is something like this:

Source (.mid files) -> MIDI Parser -> ... -> LAME Audio Encoder -> File Writter

What I failed to get is the part of "..." in the above graph...

Could someone give me a hand on this?

Thanks!

[Southstorm]

Check this page out, it might help: http://members.aol.com/homeprj/MIDIRend.html#intro

[fibbingbear]

The basic problem with midi --> mp3 rendering is that, as mentioned earlier, different synthesizers sound different. I've had some sound cards that can render midi into nice orchestral type pieces (although they still sound clearly synthesized --- I think it was a Yamaha synthesizer).

Anyway, find a synthesizer, record it to wav, then encode it to mp3.