MidiMeow, a midi to wav/ogg/mp3 converter
Click here to download (not available)
FAQ and How to use ?
1- Why a tool that
converts a sound and not a file ?
Midi files can't be
converted before your sound card read it, because midi files need to be
interpreted with your sound card's midi instruments. I seeked for other
midi converters and all of them converted the sound like
MidiMeow.
However there is an
exception: cubase
which use
Virtual instruments. Cubase is just much more expensive.
2- How to use ?
a) Click on "In" and
select your midi file as input
b) Click on "Out" and give to your output a name
c) Select your output type, the extension will be added automatically
d) If you want you can change the rate and the channel
e) If you keep the volume presets, you'll notice that usually the sound
volume decreases
and the wave volume is totally off. If you change the presets, be
warned that a high midi imput gives a metallic sound and a wav input
can change the record of the oupout.
f) click on start to "start" to listen and click on "convert" to start
conversion
g) Wait until the file is played, at this moment, if you have choosen a
wav input, the job is done, if you have choosen mp3 or ogg, just wait
until conversion is done (you get a small message windows)
3- The software crashes
It shouldn't :o( however
be warned that wav conversion to mp3 or ogg may take time
If you have problem with your sound output, just go to your sound card
settings and change them, since the software change some setting
automatically.
4- i've no sound on my
files
First you have to
understand that what does midimeow is very easy. Midimeow read the
sound of a file (midi files but i would work with other formats), and
record it. If needed midimeow converts the resulting wav file to an ogg
file or a mp3 file. So if you have no sound on a resulting file, it
means that:
- or you don't read the
file during conversion
- or that you don't
record the resulting file while reading the file
Very easy.
So first check your sound
card's setting, be sure that you have a midi ouput and the your
computer is able to read midifile according to your current setting and
your midi instruments. The easiest way to check if it is good is to
open a midi file for reading, using an other player.
Now check if the record setting of your soundcard allows to record
something (if you have set the record level of your sound card to zero,
it just can't work).
To check if it's ok, you could for example, try to use windows's sound
recorder to see if you can record your voice, if it doesn't work it
means that there's a problem with the settings of your sound card.
If you can and read and
record and if it doesn't work it's possible that midimeow don't work on
your computer.
It was beta tested
successfully under XP family and XP
pro and under windows 98 two beta testers have
used it successfully the software. However these beta testers
have
noticed that sometimes there is no sound on their mp3, so it may happen
(just restart). Additionnally, there is a bug with the ogg library we
are using and you need to restart the software to convert more than one
file.
Comments and
feedback at:
meow at meow-prod dot com
