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    Posted: July 15 2011 at 15:16
So I have a lot of music written, most of it are MIDI files unfortunately. I want to showcase some of my work to get some criticism, and also to form anew band, and people can hear what Ive written

Does anyone know the best way to convert MIDI files to something like youtube, or know a way to transfer the files to something online so people can hear them?

NOTE: I do not have a working computer mic
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2011 at 15:52
If you get a program like Guitar Pro, it allows you to export MIDI files as wav.
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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2011 at 19:01
Your MIDI files will only sound as good as the software or hardware synths you listen to them with. Most PC sequencers (like Guitar Pro5, Cakewalk or Cubase etc) will allow you to export your work in a variety of audio formats (wav/mp3 etc) Cakewalk Sonar even allows you to include a synced video with the audio.
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2011 at 20:47
Thank you guys. I got it to work. I'll be posting some of my songs online soon, I'd like to see what everyone here would think of them, I have a variety of written music
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Points: 13298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2011 at 23:56
You could always look at my Bandcamp (shameless self promotion Embarrassed). I use all Midi to make my music.
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Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

You could always look at my Bandcamp (shameless self promotion Embarrassed). I use all Midi to make my music.


How did you upload them to Bandcamp? I signed up, and when I tried to upload some songs, it wouldn't let me upload them. The files are .mid

Nice tracks on your page btw
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2011 at 12:31
never mind, I have a program to convert the files
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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2011 at 13:22
Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

You could always look at my Bandcamp (shameless self promotion Embarrassed). I use all Midi to make my music.


How did you upload them to Bandcamp? I signed up, and when I tried to upload some songs, it wouldn't let me upload them. The files are .mid

Nice tracks on your page btw


Bandcamp requires all audio uploads to be in lossless format (like wav).
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2011 at 13:32
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

You could always look at my Bandcamp (shameless self promotion Embarrassed). I use all Midi to make my music.


How did you upload them to Bandcamp? I signed up, and when I tried to upload some songs, it wouldn't let me upload them. The files are .mid

Nice tracks on your page btw


Bandcamp requires all audio uploads to be in lossless format (like wav).


Yea, I thought it was weird I couldn't upload .mp3

Thanks for your help, and I did upload a few tracks onto my own Bandcamp page. Check it out! http://mikeharvey.bandcamp.com/
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Points: 652 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 19 2011 at 09:06
Hello darkshade,

My best suggestion at this stage (you know how to convert MIDI in to wave) is to start getting some VSTs!
If you get Reason or Kontakt (or anything that has lots of sounds), you could go from the crappy MIDI sound to something much more realistic in a day or two per track (without mixing...).
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