Making Waves out of MIDI's!

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 23 Nov 2004 6:36 am

I've noticed that midi's sound only so-so even on good sound cards or with software synthesis. They often sound like they don't have the right rhythm but if you render them into a wave(wav) files they sound and play much better. You can then burn them to a cd and use for rhythm tracks. I have made cd's of country, rock, surf, and electronica. You can do this with BIAB,WAVmaker, or what I use is Wingroove. http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~hiroki/english/
The above link is for Wingroove which is shareware. You have to register($20) to render waves I think. It has it's own instrument library. I think with WAVmaker you need to purchase a seperate library.
You can't manipulate the midi's the way you can in BIAB, Cakewalk, etc. although you can change the tempo and basic stuff but just to make waves for burning it works pretty good. Some songs still sound cheesy after rendering and you have to delete them so try to find good midi's to start with. You know the old saying: You can't make chicken soup out of chicken poop!

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 23 Nov 2004 6:55 am

Wayne,
I think the quality of your WAV files would really depend on the quality of the sound card you are using to create them. I use BIAB a lot and oft times convert the MIDI files to WAV in order to burn them on a CD. Everything is already in BiAB to accomplish this.
Erv

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 23 Nov 2004 10:51 am

Erv, Wingroove uses an instruments library and does it all with software. I think it has about 128 sounds. I understand WINmaker has more sounds you can buy for it's software but I am well pleased with Wingroove. I would like to eventually get BIAB if I get into this stuff that deep.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 23 Nov 2004 2:11 pm

Wayne,
I have the latest edition of BIAB and it supports General Midi II. That supports over 1,000 different instruments.
Erv