{"id":445,"date":"2011-12-27T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T10:56:40","slug":"tip-convert-midi-to-wav-and-burn-to-audio-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Tip, convert midi to wav, and burn to audio CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is possible to record your own piano performance into audio CD. See the figure below.<\/p>\n

\"MIDI-to-CD\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some digital pianos, like Yamaha Clavinova 430, can record your songs in midi, and later convert them into wav files on your USB stick.<\/p>\n

For other keyboards with midi connector, one can record the music on the PC with a midi-to-usb cable (see blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n

After the music (midi files) are in the PC, then one can edit them by tools like AnvilStudio<\/a> or MuseScore<\/a>. However, it is not straighforward to convert midi files into wav files by using these tools.<\/p>\n

In order to get better piano sound out from the midi files, it is good to use SoundFonts which can procude better sound than playing them directly without any special convertion. A good, simple way, is to use VLC player<\/a> together with SoundFont.<\/p>\n

In this case, I’m using SoundFont “JV1080 Nice Piano<\/a>“. (This rar file can be unpacked with 7-zip tool<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In VLC player, open Preferences -> All -> Input\/Codecs -> FluidSynth, and then browse for the file “JV1080_Nice_Piano_m.sf2” (which was unpacked earlier from the rar file).<\/p>\n

In VLC, to convert midi file into wav file, choose Media -> Convert. Choose midi file via Add button, click Convert, and then define destination, and choose Profile “Audio CD”.<\/p>\n

For comparison, here are example files:<\/p>\n