So how the heck do I turn midi tracks into audio tracks?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Kerfoot32
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Hey Kerfoot.

Midi is a data protocol.
An analogy I've used before that seemed to work is this; Midi is like sheet music for a computer or hardware instrument.

So, what you need is a virtual or hardware instrument that accepts midi.
You'd feed your midi data into it, and it'll output audio.

You can keep this 'live' just the way it is, or record the audio down to a separate track. That bit's up to you.

I hear the Reaper manual is very detailed. You should check out the PDF and just auto search through it for "Midi".
 
Well I understand how midi works but I want the midi sounds in an audio file format. Anyone know how to do that?
 
You need to give some info.

Are you using virtual instruments or hardware?
Do you already have the midi triggering an instrument and creating the sounds you want to hear?
If so, are you just trying to 'bounce' this sound out to an audio track?

Little help.......
 
Virtual. Yes. I have midi tracks. I want them to be audio.
 
Open the manual and look in the index in the back for 'Freeze' and 'Export'
 
The easiest way (i guess) would be to solo the instrument you want as audio, and bounce the session out to wav.

Now you have a .wav file of that instrument that you can import or do whatever with.
 
Insert new track. Arm new track. Solo MIDI track. Record. Save.
 
Steenamaroo said:
The easiest way (i guess) would be to solo the instrument you want as audio, and bounce the session out to wav.

Now you have a .wav file of that instrument that you can import or do whatever with.
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And how do I do that?
 
We assume he's using Reaper, since he posted in the Reaper section of these forums ... if he's not ... :facepalm:
 
TimOBrien said:
Open the manual and look in the index in the back for 'Freeze' and 'Export'
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Gave you the answer. Freeze or export (bringing the audio back in as a new track option) does it.

That of course assumes you have some kind of synth allowing the midi to make a noise.
 
mjbphotos said:
We assume he's using Reaper, since he posted in the Reaper section of these forums ...
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Yeah, sometimes that little bit of trivia gets missed when you see the post in a the New Post search function. :o
 
Kerfoot32 said:
And how do I do that?
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solo the midi track, click file then render and because you have soloed that track, only that track will be turned into a wav file. Then just click "insert - media file" or just click INSERT on the keyboard, and import the wav file which you rendered earlier, now you will have the same midi track, but as an audio file.

That's how you do it, but I'm not exactly sure what advantages you can gain from doing that
 
TimOBrien said:
That of course assumes you have some kind of synth allowing the midi to make a noise.
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I suspect this is our disconnect here. Nothing the OP has said has implied that he's successfully attached an instrument to his MIDI track yet!
I've only done that once or twice, and this computer doesn't have Reaper, so I'm afraid I can't walk you through the steps right now. However, as I recall, it's mostly a matter of adding a VSTi effect to the track and adjusting its settings.
 
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