midi to audio

[scorpio]

I have been using midi for quit some time now so I am somewhat familiar with how midi works. In the past I have always made my tracks using a midi sequencer and then mixed down to an anolog tape deck. This worked ok but now I have just purchased a cd-rw and want to burn my own cd's. I would like to go directly from the midi to the cd burner if possible where I can play the cd's in my home stereo or car stereo. Is this possible? I know you have to convert the midi to audio but not sure how to do that. I am currently using a Yamaha digital piano as a controller and a Yamaha sound module for my sounds. I have Cakewalk, Magix Music Studio and Locator as my software that I use. Can I run a line directly from my sound module in to the in port of my sound card and convert that way or what? Thanks for any suggestions.
Rick

 

[lkmuller]

What you need to do is "record" your midi tracks - this will convert them to wave files, which is what you need to burn on a CD. I'm not that familiar with Cakewalk, but if it's anything like Cubase, which I use, you should be able to set up an audio track, then play your midi tracks and record them simultaneously onto the audio track.

If not, you can use a program like Cool Edit (available at syntrillium.com - really inexpensive) to record your midi tracks. Once they're recorded into wave files, you can drag'em onto the CD with your CD burner software.

I went through the same thing you're going through about a year ago and was amazed at how simple it was after I figured it out. Good luck, let us know how it turns out, or ask for more advice if you need it.

Lee Muller
http://leemuller.iuma.com

 

[anppilot]

I dont use Cakewalk, But Im sure its like Cubase where you can import your midi files, route your module to your input on your sound card, record eack midi track to its own audio track, mix it, add effects then export the whole song as a .WAV file. Use your software that came with your cd/rw or use Wavelab or a program like that hell, even use Steinbergs Clean for $130.00 Import your files, arrange them how you want them on your disk then BURN BABY BURN !!!
LOL. Thats the easiest way to do it.

Later,
Mike

 

[mstudio1224@aol.com]

This is to lkmuller

I have Cubase VST and have done a lot of Midi tracks. Having 3 adats I transfer my tracks 1 at a time to each adat channel. I have been trying to figure out how to change MIDI into AUDIO tracks (scratching my head) still cant figure it out. I do my MIDI tracks but mix via my sound modules (use the effects on board the module)

SO my question is How do I convert MIDI into AUDIO
I have a CDRW to record Wave files & Audio but cant figure it out, so I bought an external CDRW duplicator, and mix my songs in MIDI on my MIXER directly to my CD, but I would still like to know how to convert MIDI into AUDIO, also I have WAVELAB 3.0 ---- so I really need to learn that.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[rjt]

Midi is not audio (like MP3 or WAVs are different forms of audio), it simply tells the sound source (keyboard, module or soundfont) to play a certain note, at a certain volume, for a certain length of time. That is why in midi it is easy to move indiviual notes, stretch notes, transpose etc... because you are changing a programing language... not a sound. To "convert" midi to audio, you must play the sound source and record it. After it is recorded as a wav or mp3 file etc. you can do different things to it, like add echos, distortion etc. To work your midi files, play one track at a time into a multi track recorder like Cakewalk/Cubase/N-tracks/Cool Edit Pro etc/ Let say you have 8 midi tracks. By recording one at a time, you will now have 8 individual instruments recorded as sound. You can shut off you modules and midi tracks. Now you can add effects/eq/mix the audio tracks down to a 2 track master. Alternatively, you could mix everything down within your sound module and just record the two tracks. There you run into some limitations with effects etc.