I understand that. I have a specific use for the wav -> midi conversion - and it has nothing to do with recreating the original sound. Nor does it have any use for the fact that midi files are smaller than the wave file created when recording them. All I want is the midi notation from a single instrument - such as the PC speaker - single voice (not human), monaural. The assignment of sounds and other parameters would be added/changed later. If I could find one that worked for that with micro-tones it would save me potentially an immense amount of time trying to duplicate what I have done and lost in the past. However, I am not at all optimistic that one (microtonal) exists. Scala http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ may come close, but it looks complex. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:38 AM, <JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net> wrote:
.FYI . Folks, a WAV file is the actual (originally analog) music which has been (recorded) digitized and formatted as a computer file. It is generally the best quality sound you can get on a computer, which is why even short WAV files are quite large. . MIDI is NOT a "compressed format" like MP3 is. It is easy to convert WAV<->MP3. MP3 works by deleting so-called "redundant" frequencies, usually in the mid-range. For rock music it doesn't matter, for fine jazz and classical MP3 sux. Converting WAV to MP3 you will lose some fidelity; you can NOT then convert MP3 back to WAV and "re-gain" the lost fidelity - it is gone. . MIDI is actually a set of instructions, a program, that your audio card and software reads and uses to actually generate the music on the fly. MIDI files can be quite small, only a few Kb, yet play long music stretches. Think of MIDI as that ticker-tape thing with holes punched in it that a toy musical instrument or even a piano could "read" and then play the music. [I may be the only one here old enuf to know about those <g>].
Generally, you can NOT directly convert a WAV, MP3 or other music file into MIDI. Some software "kinda" can do it, but quality is generally not good. MIDI can easily be converted to WAV, MP3 or other formats and saved as such. I have software for that - it is readily available.
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