[SOLVED] can I transform a MIDI into a non-digital sound?
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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.
Last edited by newbiesforever; 01-25-2013 at 01:41 PM.
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:
Playing rainbowc.ogg
MIDI file: rainbowc.ogg
rainbowc.ogg: No such file or directory
...
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).
Last edited by newbiesforever; 01-25-2013 at 02:10 PM.
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.
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