can I transform a MIDI into a non-digital sound?
 

I always wanted to put my MIDI music collection on a CD or on my music player, but it's impossible--the only way I know how to listen to MIDI music is using a MIDI player on a computer (Timidity, in Linux). Can I use Audacity to transform MIDI sound into a non-digital sound format-- OGG or anything else playable by non-MIDI software or equipment? So far, all I can do is open my MIDI files in Audacity.

Timidity++ will convert a MIDI to an OGG without much hassle.

...will save a new file called "midifile.ogg".

Audacity might edit your MIDI file, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't play audio from them. I haven't checked for a decade.

There are more output options if you look at the timidity help.

Thanks. Do I need to have the output file already made? because (assuming "midifile.mid" was your example) I specified an output .OGG file with the same filename as the MIDI piece and it didn't work. I entered:


and regarding the output file, the output said:


...

EDIT: Forget that question. Well, this is strange: even though it said "No such file or directory" (indicating the output file doesn't exist, right?), once I actually looked, I found the newly made output file where it's supposed to be. It does sound exactly the same as the MIDI (I wasn't sure it would).

Don't specify an output file. In your example, timidity would create a file named rainbowc.ogg automatically from rainbowc.mid -- timidity will look for rainbowc.ogg as a second midi input file if you specify it on the command line like you've done.

Again, there are more options you can play with... I can't seem to find a good man page for timidity online, but `man timidity` or just `timidity -h` will show them to you.

Thanks, this does what I wanted.