On 2 May 2003, at 11:52, Heath Purdy wrote:

> try saving them to your C drive and use sav file as ""WAV" under file
> name option
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fran kaye [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > I have hundreds of MIDI music files on floppy disks and want
> > to convert them to wave files to eventually burn cds to play
> > on my car stereo.  How do I do that?


  That's not going to work.

  A MIDI file contains instructions to a synthesizer telling it which notes
to play, and for how long.  Whether those notes sound like a trumpet, a
piano, or a violin, depends on the sound samples available to the
synthesizer.
  A WAV file describes an actual sound waveform, which may have come from a
synthesizer, a microphone, or some other source of recorded sound.
  Your CD player can't play MIDI files because it does not include a
synthesizer; CD music fully specifies the waveform that is sent to the
speakers.

  The process of turning MIDI data into a waveform involves "playing" it
through some sort of synthesizer.  There's one on your sound card, and I'm
sure there are programs that use it to accomplish what you want.

David Gillett

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