I am at work right now & cannot check (Mac 8.6).
Can GarageBand do anything with MIDIs ?
Mark
>
> From: Brandon Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/12/10 Fri PM 12:38:27 GMT
> To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: What kind of audio file is .mid?
>
> Those are MIDI files. They contain basic information about the song
> such as the patches (instruments) used, the notes played, the
> velocity, etc. You have to have a MIDI sound source to play these
> files back. In some cases that could be a musical keyboard, or
> QuickTime since it has a MIDI sound system as part of its framework.
> iTunes, won't recognize them becase they aren't digital audio, they
> are data files.
>
> You might be able to use QuickTime Pro to export them to a digital
> audio format: AIFF, ACC, etc., but I'm not 100% on that. There are a
> number of MIDI packages for the Mac, as music has always been one of
> its fortes. Google away and good luck.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Brandon in Durham
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:50:47 -0700, Tom Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a bunch of piano music pieces on my hard drive with the suffix
> > .mid. I don't remember how they got there, but I like the music.
> >
> > However, iTunes won't play them, import them, or convert them, unless
> > I don't know how to make it do it. I can navigate to the folder they're
> > in, but iTunes shows them as grayed out. I thought maybe I could use
> > iTunes to convert them to aiff, so that I could drop them into iMovie,
> > but you can't choose something that's grayed out.
> >
> > So I thought I'd try to burn them to a CD with Toast 6, then see if
> > iTunes would import them from the CD (as well as have a nice music CD),
> > but Toast won't accept them ("not in a supported format").
> >
> > I tried to drop one into iMovie, but after the colored wheel spun for
> > awhile it disappeared and there's nothing in the sound track.
> >
> > If I double-click on them, Quicktime will play them, and they sound
> > great, but that's about all I can do with them.
> >
> > So, what are these weird .mid things, and does anybody know how I can
> > convert them into something that iTunes, Toast, and iMovie will
> > recognize?
> >
> > This is iTunes 4.7 and iMovie 4 on a G4 running 10.3.6.
> >
> > Any help appreciated very much!
> >
> > Tom
> >
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