Midi to Wav

[savagcl]

I read and followed Razgo's FAQ about how to do this but cant get it to
work.

When i look at my sound controls i dont have a "Stereo Mix" selection. I do
have MidiSynth, Analog Mix, CD Digital, What U Hear, Microphone, and
Wave/MP3 selections as recording selections.

Using Analog Mix or Wave/MP3 gives me a 1k file as output.
The test recording level never shows any volume movement and when i
press the (start) record button, it just closes (and gives a 1k file output).

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks,
savagcl

[ChristinaS]

Re: Midi ti Wav

I read and followed Razgo's FAQ about how to do this but cant get it to
work.

When i look at my sound controls i dont have a "Stereo Mix" selection. I do
have MidiSynth, Analog Mix, CD Digital, What U Hear, Microphone, and
Wave/MP3 selections as recording selections.

Using Analog Mix or Wave/MP3 gives me a 1k file as output.
The test recording level never shows any volume movement and when i
press the (start) record button, it just closes (and gives a 1k file output).

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks,
savagcl

Make sure you are looking at Recording options, not Playback options.

Try What U Hear as an input source if you don't have stereo mix. Disable all the others.

The test recording level shows nothing because for the input source selected there was nothing to test. The same for when you used the start recording button.


I hope this helps. Please let us know if this works.

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Yep, that did it.

Gee, I love those technical terms, always a turn-on!

Thanks ChristinaS (again you saved my **** from the fire),
Give yourself a gold star for the day!

savagcl

[ChristinaS]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Yep, that did it.

Gee, I love those technical terms, always a turn-on!

Thanks ChristinaS (again you saved my **** from the fire),
Give yourself a gold star for the day!

savagcl

You're welcome :smile2: but, you know, gold stars are just SO overrated :D

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Yes, they are but it looks good on your "achievement" wall.
Well, better than a blank wall anyway.
:smile2: :smile2: :rolleyes:

savagcl

[ChristinaS]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Yes, they are but it looks good on your "achievement" wall.
Well, better than a blank wall anyway.
:smile2: :smile2: :rolleyes:

savagcl

You mean the fridge door? :smile2:

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Not really a fridge.
I'm a retired military type and we all (most of us anyway) have an
achievement wall.
Normally its a wall devoted to the medals, ranks, awards, achievement
certificates and honoraries that one has obtained during his/her service
time.
The wall promotes a sense of accomplishment, teamwork, pride and duty in
oneself. It also promotes a sense of pride in your country/ heritage and
encourages one to do a better than average job (whatever that job is).

Maybe what the youth of today needs is an achievement wall. Wouldn't
hurt anyway.

savagcl
(Clif)

[ChristinaS]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Well, my patch of real estate available for such is pretty much limited to the fridge door - the rest of it (including the ubiquitous bumper stickers) being taken by my kids' own achievements - which they actually seem to dismiss as irrelevant as it looks to them as if only a parent can consider them achievements - go figure :D

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

It may seem that way but they know and if called to task about it, would
speak up. Kids are a lot more savvy today than we were.

savagcl

[ChristinaS]

Re: Midi ti Wav

It may seem that way but they know and if called to task about it, would
speak up. Kids are a lot more savvy today than we were.

savagcl

Or so they think :D

[kanotic]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Hi..trying to convert Midi to wav & I get this message:The file type '.mid' does not stream audio data and cannot be converted.


..any suggestios guys..?


Thanks

[xoas]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Kanotic-
The information you seek is in a thread in the FAQ section for dMC (dBpowerAMP Music Converter) here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=2213
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

After reviewing the above msgs, i have to ask - When converting a midi file,
there's no way to go straight to a mp3 output file?
One of the recording options i have in the same window as "What U Hear"
is WAV/MP3. If i selected this (instead of "What U Hear") and set the Aux-
converter to MP3 wouldn't it produce an MP3 file? Thereby, eliminating the
need to create a wav file first.

thanks,
savagcl

Might try this and see what happens....

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

Never mind! Tried it and it would only record about 2k then close the
recording window.
Ah, well, would have been nice to be able to skip that intermediate step.
Lesson learned.

savagcl

[savagcl]

Re: Midi ti Wav

An update.

If you leave the recording device set to "What U Hear" (or stereo mix) and
then in the converter, select mp3 instead of wave, it will work and you get
a mp3 output.

To think, i spent most of yesterday going from midi to wav then to mp3...
Another lesson...

:blush:
savagcl