Convert midi Sequence to Wave file
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 4 Sep, 2017
I have seen various videos on making tracks inside of Mu.Lab. But how do you export a recorded midi sequence to an actual wave file? I just came across this software today and want to know how to accomplish taking the midi notes and converting them to wave separate files. Can anyone help me with this?
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- KVRAF
- 13863 posts since 24 Jun, 2008 from Europe
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- KVRAF
- 7412 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
WAVE files contain the computer representation of sound.
MIDI files contain the computer representation of instructions to do something. That "something" might be "play the note C3" or it might be "close the hi-hat" or it might be "lower the overall volume a bit".
Hence you need something to listen to the instructions and produce sound. That's what synth modules do.
So you have three steps:
1) Choose a synth module - in the MuLab compose view, click the "+" to add a new track and pick "Add Instrument Track", then (for example) pick Factory Presets->Instruments->Organ->B3
2) Get the MIDI file into MuLab - drag-n-drop the MIDI file from your computer onto the track you just created
3) Get the result into a WAVE file - click the Project menu, pick Export Composition as Audio File, click the filename, click the "Desktop" folder button at the top of the file chooser, click "New File" and type "My New Wave.wav". The ".wav" is pretty important but the rest isn't really. Then click OK.
That should get you a file "My New Wave.Wav" onto your desktop that you can play with your normal file players.
(One thing to add. There's a way of putting instructions into a MIDI file called "General MIDI" (also "GM", "GS" and "XG"). You need a special kind of synth module to handle that in the expected manner - you'll have to look up "General MIDI VST synth" to find one.)
MIDI files contain the computer representation of instructions to do something. That "something" might be "play the note C3" or it might be "close the hi-hat" or it might be "lower the overall volume a bit".
Hence you need something to listen to the instructions and produce sound. That's what synth modules do.
So you have three steps:
1) Choose a synth module - in the MuLab compose view, click the "+" to add a new track and pick "Add Instrument Track", then (for example) pick Factory Presets->Instruments->Organ->B3
2) Get the MIDI file into MuLab - drag-n-drop the MIDI file from your computer onto the track you just created
3) Get the result into a WAVE file - click the Project menu, pick Export Composition as Audio File, click the filename, click the "Desktop" folder button at the top of the file chooser, click "New File" and type "My New Wave.wav". The ".wav" is pretty important but the rest isn't really. Then click OK.
That should get you a file "My New Wave.Wav" onto your desktop that you can play with your normal file players.
(One thing to add. There's a way of putting instructions into a MIDI file called "General MIDI" (also "GM", "GS" and "XG"). You need a special kind of synth module to handle that in the expected manner - you'll have to look up "General MIDI VST synth" to find one.)
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 2 posts since 4 Sep, 2017
I just realized where my issue was. Thank you both for your responses. My sound card had an issue that I did not pay attention to. I actually had already exported the audio but they would not playback because MuLab was using the sound card.