WHY?! There is a wonderful advantage to midis, and that's that they are cheap size-wise. You could put literally hundreds of thousands of midis on a CD before it would get full. If you think a wav file on a CD would allow you to play it in your car or something etc, it won't. That is a different format other than WAV.
I highly suggest you don't switch to WAV. Audio CD is different, but WAV file wouldn't do anything extraordinary that a midi can't already do after you converted it.
There are better ways. Find a program that will let you copy any files on a CD. Some CD burning programs are in the background letting you copy like the CD were just another part of your hard drive. Then, all you'd need to do is to copy the midi files and paste on the CD. It will copy slower of course, but it will be on there.
We're talking about a difference of about 20 songs to hundreds of thousands of songs. It is well worth if it you ask me.
Ah yes, but then you can't play it in, oh, say, a CD player. Just for an example.
Unless you happen to have a CD player which has the capability to read Data-CDs and has a MIDI sequencer chip on it that doesn't suck....
I don't know any programs off the top of my head that will convert MID to WAV, but google might help you. I've seen someone do it by placing their mic by their speakers... that works to an extent, but...
You can't play it in a CD-player if it was in WAV format you know. It is a waste. Unless you plan to add voices to a midi file, there isn't a good reason to convert.
Hawkeye, stop talking... mmmmkay? You're an embarassment to yourself.
The best way i've seen, albiet the slowest, is to start up winamp and sound recorder. You may have to monkey with a few volume settings, but after awhile you will be able to start up winamp, play the midi, and then press record on sound recorder and have it copy the exact sound. Just don't do anything else, as it may cause system sounds to be recorded.
This will make a file which you can save to a WAV and then burn that to an audio CD.
Are you for real? That was a joke right? Do you really think converting it 5 times will be the best solution? Perhaps we should play it through the speakers and then record it through the microphone. Then, we will use a special program to convert that wav into audio CD. If possible, run it through the microphone once more.
*sarcasm*Don't listen to what i said before. This is correct. Do what 404 says! Surely you'll have the best quality. */sarcasm*
I can't believe you saying to use the mic seriously <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
You can't really just convert a midi to a wav, as they are internally very different file types. WAVs are recordings of sound, Midi is more like instructions to the sound card's midi synthesizer as to what notes to play and when. Think of it as comparing the sound the guitar makes vs the sheet music with the notes on it.
Its like how there's no Half life .dem demo to AVI (or any other video codec) converter. .dem files is just a text based script of what entities to move where and what to do and etc within the HL engine, whereas AVI is just video footage.
And why the hell would you want to burn MIDI's anyway? If its a midi of a regular song, for the love of god find the original song. If its something from a game like mario or warcraft 2, chances are people have made an mp3 out of it and it'll sound a lot better (this is the case w/ the DOOM soundtrack for example). Look around, you're bound to find a version that's better out there.
Finally, if you REALLY REALLY want to record a MIDI to a WAV, then go to your mixer settings and select the record device as "what you hear" (or whatever the non-sound blast equivilent is), or perhaps just the MIDI channel if that's available in your mixer. Then go to windows Sound Recorder. Start playing your midi in whatever you play your midi's with, then in sound recorder hit record.. save as wave, there you go.
Burning a WAV to a CD is easy. Just make sure you have the right format (Read the documentation for your burner software, its in there somewhere). You're burning software will be able to make an actual music CD from a .wav file (this is how all music cd's are burned, even when they are mp3's they are converted to .wav first behind the scenes)
The best program I know for midi2wav conversion is <a href='http://www.wg7.com/en/wgdl.html' target='_blank'>WinGroove</a>.
It's a software wavetable synthesizer, and it makes the MIDIs sound a lot better than my soundcard's wavetable. Since it turns the MIDI data into high-quality waveforms on its own, it's easy to save the result as WAV.
well first off i would like to thank all the people that actualy answered the question. no offence to anyone but i asked if there was a way to conver midi to wav not if it was good idea to do or why i would want. it is annoying to ask a simple question and get many replys as to how stupid i am for wanting to convert midi to wav.(i know that nobody actualy said stupid). twex thankyou for the program recomendation but i do not have 20 dollers to buy that software with. if anyone knows of a free program that can do what i ask please tell me.
<!--QuoteBegin--Twex+May 29 2003, 04:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Twex @ May 29 2003, 04:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The best program I know for midi2wav conversion is <a href='http://www.wg7.com/en/wgdl.html' target='_blank'>WinGroove</a>.
It's a software wavetable synthesizer, and it makes the MIDIs sound a lot better than my soundcard's wavetable. Since it turns the MIDI data into high-quality waveforms on its own, it's easy to save the result as WAV. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Good proggy, except for the trial :\
I've yet to find a free midi-wav converter, so I use the method that myself and DoomManiac said... maybe i'll look into coding such a animal for free...
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I highly suggest you don't switch to WAV. Audio CD is different, but WAV file wouldn't do anything extraordinary that a midi can't already do after you converted it.
We're talking about a difference of about 20 songs to hundreds of thousands of songs. It is well worth if it you ask me.
Unless you happen to have a CD player which has the capability to read Data-CDs and has a MIDI sequencer chip on it that doesn't suck....
I don't know any programs off the top of my head that will convert MID to WAV, but google might help you. I've seen someone do it by placing their mic by their speakers... that works to an extent, but...
It is a waste. Unless you plan to add voices to a midi file, there isn't a good reason to convert.
Find a program to burn it on to CD format (can't rember the name for it) from MIDI
Midi>wave
The best way i've seen, albiet the slowest, is to start up winamp and sound recorder. You may have to monkey with a few volume settings, but after awhile you will be able to start up winamp, play the midi, and then press record on sound recorder and have it copy the exact sound. Just don't do anything else, as it may cause system sounds to be recorded.
This will make a file which you can save to a WAV and then burn that to an audio CD.
*sarcasm*Don't listen to what i said before. This is correct. Do what 404 says! Surely you'll have the best quality. */sarcasm*
Its like how there's no Half life .dem demo to AVI (or any other video codec) converter. .dem files is just a text based script of what entities to move where and what to do and etc within the HL engine, whereas AVI is just video footage.
And why the hell would you want to burn MIDI's anyway? If its a midi of a regular song, for the love of god find the original song. If its something from a game like mario or warcraft 2, chances are people have made an mp3 out of it and it'll sound a lot better (this is the case w/ the DOOM soundtrack for example). Look around, you're bound to find a version that's better out there.
Finally, if you REALLY REALLY want to record a MIDI to a WAV, then go to your mixer settings and select the record device as "what you hear" (or whatever the non-sound blast equivilent is), or perhaps just the MIDI channel if that's available in your mixer. Then go to windows Sound Recorder. Start playing your midi in whatever you play your midi's with, then in sound recorder hit record.. save as wave, there you go.
Burning a WAV to a CD is easy. Just make sure you have the right format (Read the documentation for your burner software, its in there somewhere). You're burning software will be able to make an actual music CD from a .wav file (this is how all music cd's are burned, even when they are mp3's they are converted to .wav first behind the scenes)
It's a software wavetable synthesizer, and it makes the MIDIs sound a lot better than my soundcard's wavetable. Since it turns the MIDI data into high-quality waveforms on its own, it's easy to save the result as WAV.
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It's a software wavetable synthesizer, and it makes the MIDIs sound a lot better than my soundcard's wavetable. Since it turns the MIDI data into high-quality waveforms on its own, it's easy to save the result as WAV. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good proggy, except for the trial :\
I've yet to find a free midi-wav converter, so I use the method that myself and DoomManiac said... maybe i'll look into coding such a animal for free...