On 21 Apr 98 at 21:47, Mick Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Does anyone know of a programme that will allow me to convert short wav
> files to mid? A download would be prefered.

  This is an extremely hard problem, akin to listening to a song and
writing down the sheet music[*].  There may very well be solutions
out there, but I wouldn't expect them to be cheap/free.

[*] A .wav file contains an arbitrary waveform, which may be
distorted, or arise from the mixing of two or more sources.  MIDI
specifies the notes to be played on each channel.
  So this program must try to filter out noise, correct for
distirtion, and then hope to "un-mix" mixed chords to their
constituent notes.  Specialized (expensive!) hardware can help with
some of this.

David G