Subject:midi files
Posted by: flaskvacuum
Date:12/3/2003 6:48:58 PM
I believe i cannot open a midi files and edit it using soundforge. Does anyone know a converter where i can convert from midi to wave so that i can edit it in soudforge. I understand that i can play my midi files in window media player and activate the record option in soundforge to do a real time recording, but i found that that is too time consuming and what happen if i have a whole lots of midi files to convert. I have also tried download some so called midi to wav converter from www.download.com but to my disappointment the free software didn't do its job well. |
Subject:RE: midi files
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:12/4/2003 6:13:44 AM
Do you understand what midi is? |
Subject:RE: midi files
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:12/4/2003 10:11:05 AM
I tried using ACID Pro 4 and this worked very well. I loaded a .mid file onto a track and rendered it to a .wav file in a few seconds. I did have to reduce the volume of the midi track to -18 to keep it from clipping, but that could be just because of the file i was using. |
Subject:RE: midi files
Reply by: Sonic
Date:12/4/2003 11:38:35 AM
What Red was getting at is that MIDI is not an audio format, per se. Rather, it is a command language that details notes, instruments, velocities, etc. Converting MIDI files to audio, either for listening or to convert to .wav means a MIDI playback device has to be involved to translate those commands into an audio signal. Sound Forge has no such capability, but as Chienworks pointed out, you can do this in ACID, or you can use Sound Forge to record the audio generated by such a device when the file is played with a supporting MIDI application (iif your sound card routing supports it). J. |
Subject:RE: midi files
Reply by: Geoff_Wood
Date:12/5/2003 9:23:34 PM
SoundForge cannot play a midi file just as it cannot generate an audio file out of a Word Doc of lyrics. MIDI is data instructions for tell synthesisers what notes (etc) to play to make music. The missing link here is 'synthesiser'. You need a synthesiser (hardware or software) to generate the audio to record into SoundForge. You can maybe route the audio directly to SForge from your soundcard mixer, or use Virtual Audio Cable to do the routing if you soundcard mixer doesn't have that function. Softsynths sometimes (always ?) appear as an audio output device which can be selected as the SForge input. geoff geoff |