MIDI

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Here is a "stupid" question for anyone who might care to respond.

Sound cards that come with an off-the-shelf PC: Do they contain a built-in "voice to MIDI" converter for converting an analog musical waveform into the MIDI language? I would like to feed into the sound card analog music using the external jack on the card and have it converted into a MIDI file.

Thank you.

Can Akkoc

can193849@yahoo.com

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--- In tuning@y..., Can Akkoc <can193849@y...> wrote:

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>
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Here is a "stupid" question for anyone who might care to respond.
>
> Sound cards that come with an off-the-shelf PC: Do they contain a
built-in "voice to MIDI" converter for converting an analog musical
waveform into the MIDI language? I would like to feed into the sound
card analog music using the external jack on the card and have it
converted into a MIDI file.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Can Akkoc
>

***Hi Can! No you Can't!

As the author of the estimable "SCALA for Dummies" guide, I feel
eminently (Eminem) (enim-- don't go there) suited to take this on...

MIDI and recorded sound have *absolutely nothing* to do with one
another, or at least "next to nothing..."

MIDI is a set of *instructions* that makes your synth play certain
notes. One can't convert sound, of any kind, into MIDI...

On the other hand, one *can* make a sound file from a MIDI file, but
it's not by *conversion!*

One must RECORD the OUTPUT of the synthesizer that is *performing*
the MIDI file, or playing by those electrical instructions. Then you
can make a .wav file, a .mp3 file by *recording* and from the .wav
file, cut a CD, if you like!

Makes sense?? Maybe this is a MakeMicroMusic topic...

J. Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

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>
> MIDI is a set of *instructions* that makes your synth play certain
> notes. One can't convert sound, of any kind, into MIDI...
>

***Well, I guess this needs a "caveat" for the Robert Walker case...
But, that's a special converter, and not a common application,
certainly not something an "off the shelf" PC sound card would
contain...

J. Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> One must RECORD the OUTPUT of the synthesizer that is *performing*
> the MIDI file, or playing by those electrical instructions.

The best method is to use a midi renderer--Timidity or Audio Compositor, for example.
Pehrson