Midi to Wav/Mp3 Converter?

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:38 pm

Hello my dear tfans. Do any of you can recommend me a good midi to wav or mp3 converter? I got a lot of nes (very old indeed) tunes in midi format that I would want to convert to wav/mp3 .

Do you have any program than can do it in an effective way?

Thnx in advance!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:04 pm

Have a look for Goldwave - you can get a free version, I use it for .mp3s and .wavs but I'm not sure about .midi

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:34 pm

Nah. I've used Goldwave for a few years, it's ideal for many types of wave-based formats (including real audio, I recently discovered, if you've got the right plugin!), but it doesn't support track-based formats.

You'd be better off looking for something that can play midi files, then try and feed the generated output back in as a waveform. Although how you'd deal with isolating input and output is another matter.

As far as I was aware though, midi files themselves don't usually contain sound, just the manipulation of the sounds (basically electronic sheet music), while a MOD (module) file would, but would be more format specific.

About a decade ago, I went looking for MID2WAV converters, and although there were some out there, it didn't seem to be a field with much interest, but here's the results from a site I've hardly ever been let down by:

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.htm ... v&tag=srch

Don't know how much use any of them are, or whether they'd let you import your own instrument samples.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:57 am

When my girlfriend was on the radio, I just started the "Sound recorder", and pressed "Record" when she was on (I listened to it over the internet).
The recorder records any sounds the computer is making (I used this technique to record some songs from South Park).

It works for me

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:14 pm

Obfleur wrote:When my girlfriend was on the radio, I just started the "Sound recorder", and pressed "Record" when she was on (I listened to it over the internet).
The recorder records any sounds the computer is making (I used this technique to record some songs from South Park).

It works for me

I used this exact technique to digitise my old cassettes (only instead of using Sound Recorder, I used Goldwave for better presentation), but I found that trying to do the same with internet radio, I'd pick up all the background noise from my room. Plugging a small cable between the headphones and mic sockets helped, except that then I couldn't hear anything while it was recording.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:35 pm

Rebis wrote:
Obfleur wrote:When my girlfriend was on the radio, I just started the "Sound recorder", and pressed "Record" when she was on (I listened to it over the internet).
The recorder records any sounds the computer is making (I used this technique to record some songs from South Park).

It works for me
I used this exact technique to digitise my old cassettes (only instead of using Sound Recorder, I used Goldwave for better presentation), but I found that trying to do the same with internet radio, I'd pick up all the background noise from my room. Plugging a small cable between the headphones and mic sockets helped, except that then I couldn't hear anything while it was recording.

for recording internet radio, you should be able to choose "stereo mix" as the input source in your audio control panel, basically this will then record any noise your computer then makes... so you might want to disable any windows audio noises whilst recording...