From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,760ebde180207ad2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Subject: Re: Sound Date: 1998/04/17 Message-ID: <3536faab.0@silver.truman.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 344930917 Sender: References: <3533E2F6.70212BB1@vci.net> <6h2oad$mus$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <6h5fsj$2jp@top.mitre.org> Organization: Missouri Research and Education Network Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Michael F Brenner wrote: > There are several ways to do MIDI. > The HARDWARE way is to buy a MIDI keyboard. The MIDI keyboard > has a serial port that connects to the computer's serial port. > The computer sends the MIDI to the keyboard and the keyboard > sends the sound waves to the computer-sound-card audio-port which > encodes them as a WAV file. Some keyboards have the feature that > you can download samples (that is, notes from additional instruments) > into the keyboard. Most sound cards have a built in synthesizer, so theoretically no conversion to WAV is needed, but the quality of thie music will be different on different sound cards. On a low-end Soundblaster 16 clone, you will not be able to tell what sound is supposed to represent what real instrument, while on an AWE 32 or 64 (or better) you will have almost real sounding instruments. > The SOFTWARE way is to purchase a synthesizer software which is often > called a MIDI sequencer. The sequencer reads the MIDI file and > merges in the sound samples for each note on each instrument. The > sequencer outputs the audio which is then sampled and encoded > into a WAV file. If you do not plan to distribute the software (i.e. you just want to see how to use midi) you can download midi files from the web at places such as www.midifiest.com . --Nick