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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Audio translatiing- ausio file into .mid

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BluEarth Software
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 23:27 Edited at: 11th Jul 2006 23:27
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Sound Forge, Adobe Audition, Vegas Audio, Batch Converter, you know what all these programs have in common? Yes they are all audio prossing and mixing programs, but NONE of them can translate an audio file into a a .mid? So when I waste my time writing music in my studio, I burn it in my RT CD Burner, and put in my computer, but I cannot use it in DB because it only reads .mid!

So how do I translate audio files into .mid?

(sorry for spelling mistake )


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Dream And Death
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 23:37
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Midi files are rather special files:
Quote: "
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that defines each musical note in an electronic musical instrument such as a synthesizer, precisely and concisely, allowing electronic musical instruments and computers to exchange data, or "talk", with each other. MIDI does not transmit audio - it simply transmits digital information about a music performance."


You really can't code music in any standard audio format into a midi file - you have to compose it in midi. There are a few convertors out there, but they are awful, as they generally try to synthesize your (say) .mp3 file in a single instrument, which just doesn't work!

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BluEarth Software
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 23:42 Edited at: 11th Jul 2006 23:43
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I know what MIDI is, but how do you play audio files trough DB if all it does is .mid?

I hate composing in MIDI, it's to hard to do if you ask me.

Adats rule!


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D Ogre
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If the files generated by the music programs you use are in .wav or .mp3
format, you can just load and play them directly in DB.

I believe you will have to use LOAD/PLAY SOUND in DB for the .MP3 format
instead of LOAD/PLAY MUSIC. It might be the other way around. I can't
remember at the moment.
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BluEarth Software
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 20:30
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That's what I had been doing, just wonder why they did that.

Nobody cares about audio

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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 22:43
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Now I'm really confused. You say you can't play MP3s or WAVs in DB, except you can. Then you say that's what you've been doing, even though you think you can't do it. Dzzzzt...cannot compute!

The following commands are your friend:

LOAD SOUND "MySound.wav", 1
LOAD MUSIC "MySound.mp3", 1
LOAD MUSIC "MySound.mid", 2



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Posted: 14th Jul 2006 03:48
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You can by load a sound, this is music. For proper preformance, it is best to have music loaded as music.
and I tried LOAD MUSIC "MySound.mp3",1 and there's a Syntax Error.


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Posted: 14th Jul 2006 19:25
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A friend showed me a program that actually converted wav/mp3 into midi files. I have no clue how, but it wasn't too shabby. I'll have to ask him what it was called. Chances are, it mapped certain frequencies to different instruments.

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Posted: 14th Jul 2006 21:07
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You must be something really weird if LOAD MUSIC "MySound.mp3",1 is giving you an error. Works fine for everyone else.

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