Wave to Midi!!!

[Gold49K]

Does anyone know where to buy or download a MIDIMAKER program? Any info would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Ken

[lattedfw]

Go to http://www.akoff.com
to download a program that can convert a wave file to a MIDI file. I have tried it; it's not perfect, but with some experimentation, it can produce a decent conversion. Ideally the wav file is of a simple sound - one instrument (like a flute or violin) or one person singing. If you're looking to take the soundtrack to a movie and convert it to MIDI, you'll get something that resembles the music, but distortion and harmonics add lots of incorrect notes.

[ktnwin]

Strange, I did not think that converting wave to MIDI is even possible.

MIDI is simply a serie of commands for synthetizers. Play this note, this long with this instrument.

How can one convert a wave file (assuming human vocal singing) into a serie of commands for synthetizers ?

DOES THIS WORK? HONESTLY ?

[Greg12]

good point.


Midi contains no actual music, it's just intructions.

Piano:

F, G, H, A, C, B, F-Sharp, F, F, F,


I guess those r keys, I dont remember my piano class.

[moselose]

i guess it works like this:
convert analog sound to digital(wav for instace),
then isolate the peak to figure out what note it is.
monitor duration pick a sample that best represents the sound you are trying to reproduce then viola!

FYI i think the simpsons sound effects are triggered by a stringed guitar that converts analog to digital then cues sound effects from a pre programmed stack using midi. someone plays background effects as samples rather than have people in a studio watching realtime and creating the effects as they see them roll by on film(like they used to) love moderenization just keeps putting people out of jobs. one guy can do what it could have taken many to do, depending on the situation.

[lattedfw]

It worked for me - though I was just playing around with the program to see what it could do. It just does digital signal processing with your Pentium, separating out frequencies, matching them to musical notes and creating MIDI note and durations from that. It does pretty well with things like a flute or voice- one note at a time. It starts to choke on anything more than that. For a PC-app, and not some mega-studio-devoted-hardware kind of thing, it's kind of cool.

Another cool program is Midi-via-net at http://www.rsl.net/midivianet/
that lets you play a MIDI instrument over the internet. That could be as simple as soundcard to soundcard, or cheap Casio keyboard in the spare room sending to a Yamaha Disklavier in a sold-out-concert hall halfway around the world (a little far-fetched but possible).

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On 2001-08-30 19:12:58, Greg12 wrote:
good point.


Midi contains no actual music, it's just intructions.

Piano:

F, G, H, A, C, B, F-Sharp, F, F, F,


I guess those r keys, I dont remember my piano class.
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NO H in music, a-g

[Gold49K]

Thanks to all of you guys who shares good info here. Unfortunately, MIDI FILE does not play in my computer any more even with a perfect MIDI file that used to play perfectly! My system upgraded from Win95 to Win98, would this caused the problem? or it just something else I don't know. Any info would be greatly appreciated
Ken

[EBK]

Are there any free programs that allow you to create your own MIDI files from scratch?

[ktnwin]

By the way, the notes go like this: C E D F G A B C (for C major scale). More complicated for other scales.

There are numerous MIDI software out there. You can just do a search for it on the internet.

I used to create MIDI music years ago and am not very up to date on the most recent MIDI software.

[lattedfw]

I believe Germans use 'H' to mean either B natural or B-flat (can't remember which). I recall that Bach worked his intials (B-A-C-H) into pieces of music, which presumes 'H' is a musical note.