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marikatech Posts: 23	Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 7:27 am  hiya All If I recorded a midi tune into CE pro. with a sample rate of 44100, stereo, 16 bit.... then saved it as a .wav....now, will the quality be commercially good enough? You see, Ive made a pleasant tune useing the Chimes software, and thought about using it as a backing to a narrated relaxtion audio program....but I want to be sure it wont sound like midi !!! Is there a way to enhance it, or will recording as mentioned and saving to wav compensate for any pore sound quality! if there is a way to get it sounding better, what might that way be? Thanks marikatech
Graeme Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663	Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 7:41 am  The first thing you have to understand about midi is that it is not sound. Midi is merely a sequences of instructions which tell a sound module,synthesiser, soundcard, etc. which notes to play and when. There is no sound in a midi file, just these instructions. How well they are converted into sounds depends on what you are feeding the midi stream into. A top quality midi module will produce top quality sound, a cheap FM synthesis soundcard will produce somewhat less than that (to put it mildly). So, what it boils down to is, although you have made your .wav file at 'CD quality' level - the sounds it contains are entirely dependent on what you used to make them with initially. Conversion to .wav format has no effect on the sound, good or bad. It will remain the same as it started out. Incidentally, when something 'sounds like midi' it's usually because of the way the person who did the original encoding, etc. did the job. Midi has no 'sound', although midi productions are often recognisable because of over-quantisation and things like that. From your comments, it sounds as though you are not happy with what you have, which begs the question, what did you use to produce the sounds in the first place? _________________ Graeme Don't forget to join the new CEP forum at audiomastersforum
marikatech Posts: 23	Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:12 am  From your comments, it sounds as though you are not happy with what you have, which begs the question, what did you use to produce the sounds in the first place? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Graeme I created the sound with syntrilliums Windchimes software. after playing around a bit with subtle chord changes, I ended up with a nice ambient tune. I have a pc setup with a soundblaster card, the latest I believe. So basically, there is nothing I can do about it?
marikatech Posts: 23	Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:12 am  From your comments, it sounds as though you are not happy with what you have, which begs the question, what did you use to produce the sounds in the first place? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Graeme I created the sound with syntrilliums Windchimes software. after playing around a bit with subtle chord changes, I ended up with a nice ambient tune. I have a pc setup with a soundblaster card, the latest I believe. So basically, there is nothing I can do about it?
Graeme Member Location: Spain Posts: 4663	Posted - Sun Aug 10, 2003 8:54 am  marikatech wrote: I created the sound with syntrilliums Windchimes software. Well, no you didn't - that was what I was trying to say. The software only produces midi files - not 'sounds' marikatech wrote: I have a pc setup with a soundblaster card, the latest I believe. It's the soundblaster card which actually makes the sounds. marikatech wrote: So basically, there is nothing I can do about it? Not a lot. You can try one thing. Go to Start | Settings | Control Panel | Multimedia and click on the MIDI tab. This will show you a number of playback options. If there is an option to change to 'Creative S/W Synth' (or any other synth mode) try highlighting the alternative/s, apply the changes and play you file again - you may prefer the sound. But, essentially, there's not a lot you can do without adding more software/hardware to your system. There are many software synthesisers around, try downloading a couple and see if you prefer them. Personally, I would rather use external hardware synths, but there is a cost implication to that route. _________________ Graeme Don't forget to join the new CEP forum at audiomastersforum
bonnder Posts: 215	Posted - Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:18 am  I suggest you continue this discussion over at AudioMasters since this forum may go dark in a week: http://www.audiomastersforum.net/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=12 Ask there if anyone will help you get a better quality sound from your MIDI file. I'm sure there are a number of folks there who do MIDI and have professional or near-professional sound modules. You could e-mail them your MIDI file and they could create a professional or near professional sound for you and send you the wav file. If you are on dial-up, they could burn it to CD as a data file and send it to you that way.
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