Midi to audio CD

[Davaud]

What file format is best to convert midi files for an audio CD? What software will change midi to the standard audio format?

 

[AlChuck]

You have to record the MIDI instruments to audio tracks. You can't change MIDI to audio files directly in any reasonable way.

 

[Davaud]

Thank you for you help.

The MIDI files are ones that I made in a score editor, not
MIDI from an instrument. Does that make a difference?
I just found Midisyn and did convert a MIDI file to WAV, which favorably
changed the sound quality. The Midisyn site has "MIDI > WAV > MP3 sound >
audio CD" as a path.

Please elaborate a bit on "reasonable way."

 

[AlChuck]

Well, I mean with much control over the performance. Those software packages must do something like running the MIDI data through a softsynth like a Roland Virtual Sound Canvas and capture the resulting sound stream as a WAV. The resulting WAV will probably sound very mechanical and not very interesting. If you want to play "real" MIDI instruments like outboard synths and samplers and want to treat them with effects like any other
instrument, and you want to have full control over this process and want it to sound fantastic, there's really no alternative other than to route the outputs into the computer and record them to audio.

 

[Davaud]

I see what you mean by "reasonable way" this time, but I am not shure about "route the outputs [instruments, microphone?] into the computer and record them to audio."
If you mean "actual recording" then I do catch it, and this thread can end right hear.

Now you got me curious about how the "virtual" MIDI > WAV > MP3 > CD compares to an actual recording. Thank you.