Hey, can one of the sound geniuses in the audience convert a 5 second .wav file to a .midi for me?

Um... that type of conversion is more difficult than it might sound.

Um... that type of conversion is more difficult than it might sound.

yes, I suspected as much with the difficulty that I had finding it online. But, with at least three sound professionals on the board, I was hoping that it could happen. The sound is literally 4 notes (it's the Kim Possible Kimmunicator sound) and I want it on my treo to notify me of mail :)

Um... that type of conversion is more difficult than it might sound.

Oh, aren't they always.

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Actually, aren't midi files the plinky sort of child's-piano ones? So I can see how there'd be a lot of information in a wav file that would make it tough.

Damn. I thought I'd actually found a doctor, but looking on her center's web site I see that she's all holistic and prefers not fixing problems with pills, or at least not long-term. In theory I'm all for that, but right now I want to keep on with my long-term pills, because I don't have time to fix my life.

MIDI is sorta' like the old player piano rolls - it just specified what notes to play, for how long, and what instrument to (attempt to) emulate. (eta: so MIDI is not actual sound, just instructions for a synthesizer to create certain sounds.) To convert a .wav file to a MIDI file entails analyzing the music to determine, "OK, that note is a G sharp, this other note is A flat, and it sounds sorta' like an acoustic piano, or in any event the "acoustic piano" MIDI sound is probably the closest one of the MIDI sounds available, so we'll just go ahead and use that one...."

If it's just four notes, it would be fairly easy for a keyboard musician to play it and record the MIDI data for you.

I kind of want to punch today in the face. Repeatedly.

Let's skip that and go straight to giving this week a knee to the 'nads. Repeatedly.

Let's skip that and go straight to giving this week a knee to the 'nads. Repeatedly.

Excellent. I shall start kicking this week in the crotch forthwith.

I am trying to decide what to have for lunch. Maybe a curry?

I am trying to decide what to have for lunch. Maybe a curry?

Chicken tikka masala. Just a thought.

Chicken tikka masala. Just a thought.

mmmm. I think that i will go to the grilled chicken place and get a 1/4 chicken with lentils and rice. It's not chicken tikka masala, but it's as close as I'm gonna get

I wonder if people with repressed pyromaniacal tendencies tend to end up as physics or chemistry teachers.

And the ones who don't repress them just become physicists and chemists.