midi to wav or mp3 format. how do i do that?

[apeness]

please recommend me a freeware that converts midi to wav or mp3 format. Or, how do i do that?

thanks in advance.

[ultimatebilly]

Hi and welcome to the forum!
I was just typing a nice little graphedit-guide for that purpose when I tested it myself and wasn't able to do it with graphedit the way I had it supposed to work...
But I found this instead:

http://www.audiotoolsdirect.com/winamp.shtml

Hope that works for you!

[Kika]

Why that complicated? Every WAVE-Editor can do that. Just record Audio while playing the MIDI, but be sure to setup the Audio-Mixer the right way.

[CaptainCarrot]

Originally posted by Kika
Why that complicated? Every WAVE-Editor can do that. Just record Audio while playing the MIDI, but be sure to setup the Audio-Mixer the right way.

Damn, I must have been stupid! I wanted to convert some midi-files to wav about a year ago and couldn't get the wav-recording of the midifile working, and (until about 5 min ago) I was 100% sure that I had tried every audiomixer-setup possible! But now it works!
A short howto:
1. Configure the record options in the audio mixer to record either (a) midi, that would be the easiest, but my soundcard doesn't have that option, so I had to (b) configure it to record everything (it's called "Stereo Mixer" for my AC97-mixer).
2. To prevent anything else but midi from being recorded (my first test had a couple of mouse-click-sounds in it, quite funny), go to the mixer's playback tab and turn of all sources but midi.
Now you can play a midi-file with any programm you like and record it with any other programm you like.

If you don't want to go through that, there's a software called "WAVMaker" (try google) available as shareware, only problem is that it comes with only a few instruments, and I haven't found a free instrument library so far.

[SeeMoreDigital]

It's a shame you don't have a Creative sound card, like an SBlive or one of their others that will allow you to use the 'Creative Recorder'.

It's just the tool for capturing any audio format, including encrypted ones!

[pacohaas]

I know there's an old program for MacOS (pre osX days) that was able to play and convert just about every format, including MIDI--it's called SoundApp. I've never searched around for a PC equivalent, but it would not surprise me if Winamp could do it with the proper MIDI plugin in conjunction with the disk-writer plugin.

[apeness]

thanks for the replies. i will try them.:)

[ultimatebilly]

Just to throw another possiblity into the thread:

Audacity (http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity)

Freeware Cool-Edit replacement...

[Apfelstruhdl]

AFAIK you can just use the winamp midi plugin to save your mid to wave and then you can convert to whatever format you want

[apeness]

Originally posted by ultimatebilly
Hi and welcome to the forum!
I was just typing a nice little graphedit-guide for that purpose when I tested it myself and wasn't able to do it with graphedit the way I had it supposed to work...
But I found this instead:

http://www.audiotoolsdirect.com/winamp.shtml

Hope that works for you!

it doesn't work. after doing everything, i opened the midi and played it till the end, i checked. there wasn't any file generated.

help guys.

and i can't figure out how to convert mid to wav using audicity.

[pacohaas]

Originally posted by pacohaas
...but it would not surprise me if Winamp could do it with the proper MIDI plugin in conjunction with the disk-writer plugin.

[apeness]

Originally posted by pacohaas


hey, how do i do that? i'm a noob in this man. so far, it only records my .wav files.

help....

[pacohaas]

sorry for that recommendation, i just found a midi file and tried it with winamp 2.91....didn't work. the diskwriter plug-in works fine with mp3 files, but with midi, it just plays the song.

Haven't tried winamp3, but I'd guess it's the same results. So it's back to my original thought of getting a mac and using SoundApp :-\

[apeness]

oh my god....someone help please

[pacohaas]

sorry, the only tools I can find that will do it on a PC are not freeware:

http://www.midi2wav.com/download.html
http://www.polyhedric.com/software/wavmaker/download.html
http://www.geocities.com/acestevesgeo/dlmsyn.htm
Quicktime Pro Player

The top 3 have a free trial though, maybe you could get all your midi files together and have a super-decoding session befeore the trials run out.

Other than these suggestions...get a mac(I knew there were some reasons that I have one of each) :)

[apeness]

ok thanks.

[Apfelstruhdl]

just use the winamp input-plugin:



Winamp2 MIDI plug-in

there you can set a destination where the wavs are written.

[pacohaas]

Originally posted by Apfelstruhdl
just use the winamp input-plugin:

Winamp2 MIDI plug-in

there you can set a destination where the wavs are written. You would think this should work, but try it with a midi file and winamp just plays it through speakers and won't write a wave. As I said above, it works fine with other files (mp3, mp2, ...), but not MIDI's.

[Apfelstruhdl]

are you sure were speaking about the same method?

i mean the INPUT plugin for midi. it can write wavs. this plugin has nothing to do with other files.

is it possible that you are talking about the diskwriter plugin (it appears in winamp under OUTPUT plugins) ?

[pacohaas]

oh, perhaps we have different input plugins? I thought I looked through the plugin interface and didn't find anything. Are you using the one supplied by the standard installation or some other one? In which tab is the wave directory choice given?

[Apfelstruhdl]

i'm using winamp 2.80 with the Winamp2 MIDI plug-in v2.63b [in_midi.dll]

in the output tab i can a destination to write wavs. there are a lot of options in the plugin. I don't remember if it came bundled. but i can be pretty possible that i got it afterwards.

I should have mentioned that earlier :(

but maybe you can find it.

[Slogra]

Roland Virtual Sound Canvas has a wav export function. You'll have to pay for it, but hey... it works. With reasonable soundquality too!