Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo

Subject: Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:48 PM

I have an 80 minute CD on which I saved about 27 tunes in Midi files.
My operating system is Windows XP (Home) and I used the "wizard" that comes with the windows program to save these various midi files to the CD. I can play the entire disc on my computer in Windows Media Player, Real Player, or Jet Audio, as if it were a regular album CD. Is there any way that I can enable this CD either by re-copying or otherwise to play on a regular home stereo or CD player ?

                                                   SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:55 PM

Hi, Rabbi. As far as I know, only if you run it through a digital recording program while the MIDI plays, and when I've done it, the sound quality has been really, really lousy. (Far worse than the MIDI sounded when it played as a MIDI.) I used Total Recorder, a program often described in other threads.

But I hope someone else has a better solution cuz I have a lot of gospel MIDIs I could learn to sing/play if I could run 'em in the car while I drive, like I do the rest.

~S~

Subject: RE: Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:19 PM

Yer dependant on what format they get saved to the CD as... if they're saved as Midis, then ya sure... all those PC programs'll play 'em....

In order to play 'em on yer stereo, you need to have them as CDA files...

It is much easier to do this than to explain how to make sure it's happening... google for a CD burning FAQ...

Subject: RE: Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:44 PM

Actually much of this info is in previous threads here on Mudcat in the last 12 months.

1) You have to convert the Midi, which is a set of coded instructions to a MIDI player, into a musical output - perhaps those more experienced with this can suggest exactly what to do and what to use. Note that the quality of the output sound depends on what sample sounds are used in the MIDI player (SW on your PC, or a real hunk of hardware such as a MIDI keyboard) - this varies. Normal CD players (boxes) do not have this circuitry in them

2) you then need to get the files into PCM 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo format for them to be played on 'normal CD players' - many newer CD players are now also capable of .mp3 format now. Many CD burning programs can do this, but not all. Normal music CDs can only handle about 74 mins of audio, 80 mins is considered 'overburning'.

3) what you have assembled onto your CD - 80 mins of MIDI files will expand to a much greater size - you may end up with 2 or more 'normal CD music' discs.

Hope this starter info assists.

Robin

Subject: RE: Tech: Converting a Midi CD to Play on Stereo
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 08:57 AM

You could try playing them from your PC thru the MIDI interface out ot a MIDI keyboard, then either running that into a tape recorder, or back into a 2nd PC.