midi to wav

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is there a tool which quickly converts midi-files to wav-files and which is free if possible :-) ?
 
When I burn records that I have made on to cd, I dump them from my Akai Dps12 to my computer, then i open them up in cool edit pro or cakewalk, edit them and them record them as waves via my soundcard. if you have a program that can play midi play it and record it with you sound card, it sound great.
 
As far as I know, midi data is different than audio data. Midi data tells an instrument (basically) what note(s) to play, how loud and how long. Audio data is sound. I do not think there is a "pure" midi to wav converter. I could be wrong and would love to hear about it if there was.
 
RJT is right- there is no direct conversion from MIDI. Each MIDI playback performance is the sound of the synth playing it. Use a cheapo synth- get a cheapo sound!
 
band in a box 9pro can convert mid>wav. but it's not cheap sorry
 
I am curious to know what it means to convert midi to wav. Midi is a message which states, play this note, this loud, this long on this channel. If you set your synth up differently you get a different song. (e.g. if you replaced you Hi hat with a snare, your song would sound different and midi does stuff like that very easily). WAV is a PC sound file which is audio data. If you recorded a high hat and don't like it, you are basically out of luck (I am not taking about the ability to remove a drum from a loop or something and replace it which is a different matter and generally a lot of work). So, when you have a file which contains no sound, just instructions (midi) how can a program convert that to an audio file (unless it "plays" it through a sound font or something and that and records it, which is not "converting it")?
 
There is no way to convert a midi file to wav file, midi is a computer langauge like stated above. If you edit a midi file in cakewalk for example and want to record the result of that modification, you send the midi file back to your synth, in my case an mpc and play it on that, will running a line into your computer and recording it with your sound card as a wav. Thats what i was trying to state above, alot of beginners, including me when i first started recording, think that midi is an audio file instead of program.
 
come on, guys...

... of course I meant "recording the sound of the midi-synthesizer" as a wav file, or a program doing this faster (with something like an integrated "wavetable-synth").
 
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