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Naefearjustbeer
10-Dec-04, 00:29
I have some midi files from a electronic keyboard and want to be able to copy them onto a cd so they can be played in a normal CD player. How do i convert them into a suitible format? any advice gratefully recieved.

Cheers
George Brims
10-Dec-04, 02:16
I did a google search on "midi convert" and found the following link, among tons of others. This one has the attraction that it's free. Once you've converted to .wav or .mp3 with that your CD burner software should be able to cope.

http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/
Naefearjustbeer
10-Dec-04, 09:37
I did a google search on "midi convert" and found the following link, among tons of others. This one has the attraction that it's free. Once you've converted to .wav or .mp3 with that your CD burner software should be able to cope.

http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/

Thanks for the link but as far as I can see this program converts wav files into Midi and not back again, Unless I am missing something obvious. I did try various different google searches and came up with lots of different sites which claimed to do what I want but they all cost money and as this is a one off favour for someone I dont want to shell out upwards of $40 to covert 5 minutes worth of keyboard music
Mr P Cannop
10-Dec-04, 09:53
try www.download.com
Zael
10-Dec-04, 11:42
try this:

http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~hiroki/english/

its called wingroove, and although its shareware, you can use it for 10 days at least.

very good wee program that I've found really easy to use. Make sure you dont make the same mistake I made and download the japanese version, not so easy to use :)
George Brims
10-Dec-04, 18:59
An alternative is to directly record the sound made by playing the midi file into your PC. Go to www.polderbits.com They have a great sound recorder program, which you can download and use fully featured for 30 days. After that it's not much. I use it to convert old audio stuff (the cassettes in the car glove box etc etc) to avi files which I then burn onto CD. If you can connect an output from the keyboard to the audio input of your PC you can make a recording that way.
Naefearjustbeer
11-Dec-04, 15:59
Thanks for all the tips but someone else managed to do it, Not sure what they did but it worked ok.