01-29-2004, 03:30 PM
Hi,
Wave files like .wav and .mp3 are digitized representations of the waveforms of the sound. The difference between those various formats is in primarily how they are compressed. Midi files do not contain a representation of the actual sounds. Instead they contain instructions for generating those sounds. To go from the instructions (midi) to the representation (wav, mp3) is quite easy -- simply "play" the midi file and capture the output. I don't think you can go the other way except through human intervention. Kind of like generating a recipe from the meal.
A couple of sites that give more info are:
http://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=114
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,...i212600,00.html
--Pete
Wave files like .wav and .mp3 are digitized representations of the waveforms of the sound. The difference between those various formats is in primarily how they are compressed. Midi files do not contain a representation of the actual sounds. Instead they contain instructions for generating those sounds. To go from the instructions (midi) to the representation (wav, mp3) is quite easy -- simply "play" the midi file and capture the output. I don't think you can go the other way except through human intervention. Kind of like generating a recipe from the meal.
A couple of sites that give more info are:
http://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=114
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,...i212600,00.html
--Pete
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