midi file into vegas

[Peter Wright]

Although it can respond to a midi clock and generate midi timecode, Vegas does not deal with midi files.

You can play them in whatever you use for midi playback and record them as audio in Vegas.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Joseph Dezordi]

I can play in Quick Time, but I cant work out how to make Vegas Record it directly

[Peter Wright]

It depends on your sound card settings, and particularly your Windows audio record settings. Some cards have “What you hear” as an audio channel, others have line-in etc.

Anyway, once you’ve established which channel its playing through, an audio track in Vegas can be record enabled (check Preferences > Audio Device first), record started then start playing the midi file.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Joseph Dezordi]

how do you establish what channel it plays through? & How do you make Vegas select the correct channel??

[Peter Wright]

First, so you have the audio vol (loudspeaker) icon on your taskbar?

If not, Ctrl Panel / Sound & Audio Devices / Volume – check “Place volume icon in taskbar”

Now, double click the icon to open.

Choose Options / Properties / Recording

Here you will have the option to check which channels to enable.

If in doubt, select them all.

When you click OK, you will see all channels with a select box and sliders.

It may be trial and error, but one of these channels is playing your midi.

When the correct channel is enabled and the slider is up, this is a Windows setting, and Vegas will now register the audio in an enabled audio track.

The same procedure will enable your mic channel, from the other thread …

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Allen Zagel]

There’s many converters out there. Maybe you can even find a free one. One possibility is the Ogg Vorbis site…..

https://www.vorbis.com/

……..Ogg is a great format and Vegas likes it. Converting from WAV, I think OGG is better than MP3 and doesn’t need all the licensing.

I have a MIDI converter that will convert to wav, OGG and MP3. Do a search for MIDI Converter on the web
Allen

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[Ted Snow]

One thing to remember is that the quality of the sound you get depends entirely on the sound generator. MIDI is nothing more than the information sent to the sound generator telling it what note or key to hit and…on what instrument, how hard to hit the note, how long to hold the note, yada yada. For instance, it tells the tone generator to hit a C5 note on a saxiphone etc. MIDI doesn’t actually output any sound, it’s just the info sent to a tone generator telling it WHAT to play. The sound generator built into a computer sound card is not going to sound as good as a Korg Triton, Yamaha XV, etc. But some of the newer sound cards can surprise you on the sounds they can generate. It just depends on what your needs are. For simple background music, one of these sound cards would probably work just fine. But my point of the response is mainly just explaining “what” MIDI is.

[Peter Wright]

Yes, good point Ted.

I use Logic and I have a fair selection of software samples, as well as an external sound module, and some sounds on my sound card aren’t too bad, so after importing a midi file I reallocate most instruments to one of my favourites, then play it out and record in Vegas or Sound Forge as audio.

As there are many free midi files out there put together by kind sharing souls, this can be a very effective way of getting round copyright problems, particularly with old classical pieces.