Music with no vocal

by **SSteve** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:04 am

I know ever one but me knows this.But just maybe some may not.I only make shows for family any gathering we have everyone brings me their photos they took.And I then make a show of them and give ever one their a copy.Now that said they are all 99 % country music.I have all ways used the music and it has vocal and I wanted to use just music but never had enough .So What I found is using Audacity and setting my speakers and my desktop mike up then recording a midi file,I even record with my voice name of tune.Then when it is recorded I cut out the blank space between my voice and the tune starting.After that I hit file and export as a wav file.Now that is a huge file so I use the recorder that come with your pc and open it and cl file open then find the tune you just exported/now scroll down to properties/cl on convert/set for 8.000KHZ,8 Bit.Mono then cl Ok and Ok again.Now save as and place it where ever you want.A short son like Galaway Bay when exports as a wave was 7.91 MB after running in thru the recorder it was 736 KB.My ears can not tell any difference in the quality there maybe for a expert but I do not have any of them in my family.
Now If any one has a better method I would appreciate it.I did look for a free program to convert midi files and did not find any.So if you know of one please let me know.
Thank you
Steve

by **gpsmikey** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:27 pm

You sort of sneak up on it -- there are a number of utilities out there (I have Total Recorder although
it costs a few dollars) that allow you to capture the output from your soundcard directly to a file
without the speaker/microphone trick. You can then convert that in your audio editor to MP3 or
whatever format you want. Total Recorder is the one I am familiar with, but there are others also.

Here are a couple other links to check out (I have no experience with them though)
http://timidity.sourceforge.net/
http://software.techrepublic.com.com/do ... cid=274539
http://www.highcriteria.com/ <- I do have this one

mikey

by **SSteve** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:44 pm

Thanks Mikey
Will check them out looks like you pay for them I have destroyed the buget for awhile.So will keep looking for a free one or keep doing it as I am now.but it is time consuming.
Steve

by **gpsmikey** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:05 pm

The first one listed there is free. Have not used it, but it is free.

mikey

by **SSteve** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:39 pm

SSteve wrote:Thanks Mikey
Will check them out looks like you pay for them I have destroyed the buget for awhile.So will keep looking for a free one or keep doing it as I am now.but it is time consuming.
Steve

Mikey
Thanks I hate to be such a pest but I have downloaded this program 2 times.Unzipped it and went thru ever file I can see and find no place to setup.I saved it to a download folder under it's name..
Steve

by **SSteve** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:43 pm

I found it Mikey it was buried but here is the jist of it I think? see below the way I see this is I need to go and find some patchs.I may try this later
Steve

TiMidity doesn't work itself. TiMidity needs GUS/patch set which is
set of sound patch. There are no WAVE information in *.mid file, so
TiMidity use GUS/patch to convert MIDI to WAVE file. Note that this
`patch' means one of the wave sound file in MIDI technical term.

Many GUS/patches are available from the internet. Some people collect
these patches and make a set of the patch for TiMidity. I recommend
the patch of Eric A. Welsh <ewelsh@gpc.ibc.wustl.edu>.

Follows are installation steps to use eawpat for TiMidity++.

1. Visit http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/html/default.htm
2. Click "Getting Eawpatches"
3. If you don't have UNRAR, Please install it.
4. Download Eawpats RAR files.
5. Make a new folder `c:\timidity' to install Eric patch set.
6. Extract RAR files to `c:\timidity'
7. Move all files in this directory to `c:\timidity'

by **gpsmikey** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:46 pm

Hmmm - you appear correct - while they mention Windows ports, none of them
seem to be valid links. All the other "midi converter" seach results seem to be
payware (although they do have a trial version). Most seem to be in the $20-30
range. Sorry I didn't find the free one -- the link looked good, they just don't
seem to be maintaining it. You might want to try one or two of the "trial"
versions - you might find one that does enough other things to be worth the
cost for you.

mikey

by **SSteve** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:05 am

Thanks for all your efforts mikey.Got to make the dreaded trip in to Vegas today.So want be on the pc today.I am doing pretty well with my method I have about a hundred tunes
up to now so I may just stick with that.I have enough now for awhile and if I find I need a special one can all ways go in and make it.I made a show using just the tunes no vocals and showed it to wife,a daughter and a grand son and they all said they thought it much better with just the music.
So if any one else needs more infromation on this just let me know I am not sure I explained it really clear in my first post above.
Steve