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george.g...@tiscali.co.uk

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Nov 17, 2009, 6:48:22 PM11/17/09
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Does anyone know of any RO software able to convert Midi files to MP3
suitable for playing on an MP3 player?

Dave Plowman (News)

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Nov 18, 2009, 5:21:27 AM11/18/09
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<2532ae85-715b-4429...@n35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

<george.g...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any RO software able to convert Midi files to MP3
> suitable for playing on an MP3 player?

I'm confused. A Midi file simply contains control information for musical
instruments - not the audio. IIRC.

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Rob Kendrick

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Nov 18, 2009, 5:29:16 AM11/18/09
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:21:27 +0000 (GMT)
"Dave Plowman (News)" <da...@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

> In article
> <2532ae85-715b-4429...@n35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> <george.g...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any RO software able to convert Midi files to
> > MP3 suitable for playing on an MP3 player?
>
> I'm confused. A Midi file simply contains control information for
> musical instruments - not the audio. IIRC.

One assumes the OP wants to synthesise the MIDI into audio, and capture
it as an MP3. There are tools to do this under UNIX, but I have no
idea about RISC OS.

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Chris Evans

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Nov 18, 2009, 8:06:45 AM11/18/09
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In article <20091118102...@necrosis.i.flarn.net>, Rob Kendrick

Midi Synthesiser or Midi Synthesiser Plus does the first part and plays it
through the sound system.

We have them in stock!
http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/newprodpages/prodinfo.php?prodcode=ESP-MIDIS

And I've just put Midi Synthesiser on special offer.
The website price won't change until our next upload later this week!

Chris Evans

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Rob Kendrick

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Nov 18, 2009, 9:12:22 AM11/18/09
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:45 +0000
Chris Evans <ch...@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:

> Midi Synthesiser or Midi Synthesiser Plus does the first part and
> plays it through the sound system.

There's also a port of the free Timidity synthesis, that apart from
being free, has the added bonus that it sounds better and can export
directly to file, where the expensive one you suggest here does not.

At least, it did when I last used it, which was years ago.

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Ray Dawson

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Nov 18, 2009, 10:15:25 AM11/18/09
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Rob Kendrick <nn...@rjek.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:45 +0000 Chris Evans <ch...@cjemicros.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > Midi Synthesiser or Midi Synthesiser Plus does the first part and plays
> > it through the sound system.
>
> There's also a port of the free Timidity synthesis, that apart from being
> free, has the added bonus that it sounds better and can export directly to
> file, where the expensive one you suggest here does not.

Or ReMIDI - which is the successor to Timidity

http://www.amplitude.demon.nl/remidi.html

Cheers,

Ray D

John Williams (News)

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:55:51 AM11/18/09
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In article <gemini.ktb91n0...@magray.freeserve.co.uk>,
Ray Dawson <r...@magray.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Or ReMIDI - which is the successor to Timidity

ReMIDI saves raw audio files, SoundCon (Rick Hudson) will convert these to
wave, then CDrip (Roger Darlington) will happily convert these to MP3.

John

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Alex Macfarlane Smith

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:45:38 PM11/18/09
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John Williams (News) wrote:
> In article <gemini.ktb91n0...@magray.freeserve.co.uk>,
> Ray Dawson <r...@magray.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Or ReMIDI - which is the successor to Timidity
>
> ReMIDI saves raw audio files, SoundCon (Rick Hudson) will convert these to
> wave, then CDrip (Roger Darlington) will happily convert these to MP3.
>
> John
>

I think Lame can directly take raw audio files, which would avoid the
middle conversion to wave format.

Alex.

george.g...@tiscali.co.uk

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Nov 20, 2009, 3:53:09 AM11/20/09
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Thanks to all for the advice - much appreciated.

George
> Alex.

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