On 20 Feb 99, at 11:30, Alex Polenov wrote:

> Thank you Mick, I know about midi sites and already have more
> than 100 but I have music CDs and want to convert it to midi. I know
> that midi is not a live sound like CD, wav, mp3 so it cannot be
> convert from MID commands to real sound. But wav and mp3 files
> too large to place it on hdd.

  MIDI files are like sheet music.  Their instructions for a set of
synthesizers to "perform" a piece, pretty much flawlessly.  But to take
a complex waveform and decompose it into individual instruments,
allowing for slight timing variations and not-quite-perfect pitches and
that mute the trombonist is using and so on, and try to reconstruct the
original score, is a Very Hard Problem.  And that's what a useful
conversion *to* MIDI involves.  Oh, and lyrics are simply not going to
make it at all....


David G

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