Hi Jerry, Thanks for that message. I just loved reading your midi cake-bake-talk. Especially, uncooking the eggs sounded absolutely awesome.
Very best regards, Denis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Richer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Midi Files? > Ibby! I convert MIDI to WAV by playing the MIDI file and recording the > output with Sound Forge. MIDI and WAV are totally unrelated file types. > Please find following two posts I wrote to this list in the past. > > there are programs to convert MP3 and WAV files to MIDI but as I > understand it they are very inaccurate. MIDI is nothing like MP3 or WAV. > The formats are totally alien to each other. MP3 and WAV files are audio > files but MIDI files are series of instructions telling a sound module of > some sort what instrument to play, what notes to play, for how long, how > loud etc. Converting an MP3 or WAV file to MIDI would be analogous to > unbaking a cake and putting all the ingredients back into their storage > bins. 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