Q for "JOLYNYK"

Kenneth Kotsay · Post by **Kenneth Kotsay** » 4 Feb 2002 6:11 pm

HI JOHN - I read your post about NERO CD burner software program. The other day I purchased a YAMAHA CD burner and it came with Nero 5.5.

Since I'm new to burning CDs I had some problems with my first CD burn of 5 songs.
Then I tried buring MIDI files that I had edited in CAKEWALK (these MIDI files are songs I downlaoded from the internet which play great using CAKEWALK or using the VSC88 Roland that comes with BIAB.

How do you convert a MIDI file to a WAVE file and then load this file into NERO 5.5 so I can burn it onto a CD. I have been trying for hours to convert a MIDI song file into a WAVE file and at this point I'm about to give up??
Can you be of any help

KEN

Michael Garnett · Post by **Michael Garnett** » 4 Feb 2002 6:57 pm

I don't know about MIDI files, but on Nero you don't have to convert MP3 files to anything, the software does everything for you. You might just want to try selecting them as MIDI files and seeing if it will go through with the burn.

Garnett

Tommy Mc · Post by **Tommy Mc** » 5 Feb 2002 9:39 am

Kenneth & Michael:
Dart CD recorder ($29.95) will do the midi to wav conversion. http://www.dartpro.com/New.asp
At one time, I was using Anvil Studio to write drum tracks. The tracks were saved as midi files. To import them to Internet Tapedeck, I could play the tracks using Anvil Studio, while recording them with Tapedeck. This essentially 'converted' midi to wav. Perhaps you could do something similar by playing the midi tracks in Cakewalk and using the recorder feature in Nero's sound editor. Worth a try.....

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 5 Feb 2002 11:36 am

Kenneth I've never tried converting Midi to Wave, but I've done lots of MP3's.. I agree with Michael.. Try it that way.. But for MP3's & Wave I really like Nero, because it'll convert MP3's automatically.. plus you can save your copy as an image on your HD.. If I get some midi's I'll give it a try & let you know... John

John Paul Jones · Post by **John Paul Jones** » 5 Feb 2002 2:30 pm

Kenneth,

To simplify this for you, you cannot directly convert Midi files to wave files.

You must use the Midi file to drive a Midi sound module or card that has a wave output which you can then record as a wave file.

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John Paul Jones

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Tom Diemer · Post by **Tom Diemer** » 5 Feb 2002 2:56 pm

N-track studio software will do it also.
There is an option called 'convert midi track to wav track'.

I really like N-track. Use it for making recordings, and get great sound from it.
Not very expensive either.

If you want to check it out, it's at www.fasoft.com

Tom

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 6 Feb 2002 12:21 pm

Roland VSC has an option to save the output of a MIDI file played thru it as a Wav I think...

Kenneth Kotsay · Post by **Kenneth Kotsay** » 7 Feb 2002 6:20 pm

I want ti thank all forum members who took time to help me out. Please read my new post about MIDI TO WAVE TO CD.

DAVID VAN ALLEN - I have the ROLAND VSC 88 & the new BIAB V11, VSC3, how does one convert a midi file into a wave???? using ROLAND VSC.
Please let me know if you find the answer to this.

TOM MC: - I am considering the DART CD RECORDER 4.1 program at $29.99. Did you find this program easy to use, was you able to converta MIDI song file into a WAVE & then burn it onto CD.

JOLYNK: - How do make a MP3 using NERO 5.5. Can you convert this into a WAVE and burn it onto A cd???

AGAIN THANKS GUYS

KEN <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Kenneth Kotsay on 07 February 2002 at 06:22 PM.]</p></FONT>

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 8 Feb 2002 1:05 am

Some Basics- Digital Audio 101
A midi file is a string of numbers which control your sound card and tell it what notes to play, what synth voice to play them with and when to play them. It's just numbers- you would not want to hear it!
Your Sound card looks up all the data and plays back a digitally sampled sound. That is a string of numbers which tell the computer how loud the real world sound was every 44thousandths of a second. Because that string of numbers would look just like a sound wave if you made a graph of it, we call that a .WAV file. You can get the player to do the conversion, amplify the results and you get a sound you can listen to . It takes a lot of numbers to record sound that way, so you can get the computer to go through all the numbers and throw out all the ones that don't seem to be doing much. That is called data compression and makes a much smaller file. The formula for choosing whisch numbers to throw away is called MP3, and that needs to be decoded before you can hear it as music - so an ordinary CD player without an MP3 decoder will not play an MP3 file as music.
So I hope you can see that a MIDI file can't be converted to WAV unless something in the computer actually plays those notes.
Think of midi files as a computer version of a music manuscript. If you want to record from "dots", you need musicians to play them- you can't put a mic in front of the song sheet!
Cheers
Dave

Tommy Mc · Post by **Tommy Mc** » 9 Feb 2002 8:30 am

Kenneth,
I never tried the midi to wav conversions on Dart. The program is easy to use, but it is not compatable with my CD burner, so I didn't purchase it, especially since it was more expensive when I tried it. Also the de-clicking feature (for cleaning up LPs) was poor. I don't know how it converts midi.....as Dave says, it probably plays the midi and records it as wav.