Jun 20, 2003 05:40 am That is indicating to me that your PC is not keeping up the job, may be time to upgrade.
midi to wav
Posted on Jun 20, 2003 02:31 am
Daniel
Member Since: Jun 20, 2003
Hi all,
I'm new to this forum, how you all doing?
I have a novice question to ask u experts here.
I'm trying to convert my midi tracks to wav. In order to do this I used my cakewalk to record the output of my soundcard while playing back my midi tracks. This is all done in cakewalk. So i got the wav track, but somehow I get more and more timing error towards to end of the song.
I tried singled out the midi tracks on a separate file to record to wav, and I tried defragment my HD, but I still get some time errors. Can anybody suggest me what to do? perhaps I need more powerful hardwares?
I'm using some very old gears now: Celeron 433, 128mb, SB Live, Maxtor 7200rpm HD.
any suggestions please, appreciated.
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Jun 20, 2003 05:40 am That is indicating to me that your PC is not keeping up the job, may be time to upgrade.
Jun 20, 2003 06:20 am Agreed, a 433Mhz Celeron is really underpowered for music applications. I run a 2.4Ghz P4 and I wish it was a lot faster at times...
What MIDI interface are you using? If it is the one on your stock soundcard then this could be a cause of the problem as well.
In the mean-time - if you need to bounce the midi tracks down, then you could always record them to another media such as CD or Minidisk if you have such facilities avaliable.
jues.
Jun 20, 2003 11:55 am I'm not sure about the PC version, but the Mac version of QuickTime can export MIDI files as .wav or .aiff files.
Jun 20, 2003 01:29 pm Yes, but that would be general midi - whereas I presume Daniel is using MIDI to drive an external sound source.
Jun 20, 2003 02:28 pm Yes Jues, right now I'm using midi to drive the sound from my SBlive sound card. I’ve also tried other midi to wav software like timidity that use patch files, but the sound just doesn’t sound right.
So i guess cpu is the main problem here.. hm.. but cpu is the last thing I wanna upgrade 'cause its the most expensive and time consuming... since i think i need a new main board for the new cpu as well right?
so how significant is the other hardware? you think I could get away with a few more ram, or just upgrade the sound card?
My song is 6 min long and has at most 2 midi track play simultaneously. My main concern is the drum track which holds the whole song together.
Jun 21, 2003 12:50 am You are gonna need more Ram, a new motherboard, and a new CPU - you are looking at around £300 ($600ish) - but it is a worthwhile investment.
jues.
Jun 21, 2003 06:36 pm yea, i guess that's what I have to do eventually.
Thank you all.
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