Making your own midis

[BootyDC316]

How do you even start, lol

[mooreweststud34]

there are very many midi programs out there to work with. I suggest going to www.downloads.com and searching for "midi". I know this will help you.

[voice of god]

You need a midi editing proggy.

If you get Logic Audio(cough**Kazaa**cough)
I can walk you through it step by step.

[starryxangel]

is it something you could use to convert MP3's to midi or something? hehe...

[dwnpwr]

logic fun is free and available on german sites, though it is in english:
http://www.chip.de/downloads_updates/downloads_updates_8785809.html

[melchoir]

Here is another program to convert MP3/Wav to MIDI, not very good though, but you can try it out.

http://www.midi.ru/w2m/english/index.html

[legendcasey]

So logic audio makes them from scratch???

[random205]

so you people actually sit down and compose midi's for popular songs or do they have some program, cause everything i have seen out there isnt that good at converting wav to midi

[shingo]

Out of all these midi editing proggies, which ones are actually worth taking a look at?

[dwnpwr]

Originally posted by shingo
Out of all these midi editing proggies, which ones are actually worth taking a look at?
The ones in the 300 - 700$ price range.

Flagship products by (in order by how much respect have for the product):
Steinberg
Emagic
Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU)
Digidesign
Sonic Foundry
Cakewalk

[xj911]

what if you don't know a lick about music?

Is it easy to use?

[veryevil_p_s]

i am also kindda intersted in it

[Midway]

converting is really not the best way... better start from scratch...
sure it`s much more work but it`s sound better then (if you can make it...)

[Kingalance91]

I'll have to try one of those out. Theres alot of hard to find songs in .mid

[ll1lll1ll1]

Personally, I go the notation software route, and use Noteworthy Composer and export the native nwc files to midi files. It's friendly, easy software, but it is notation software, so you'll need to know how to write out notes. If you don't, though, you could always use it to learn.

Similarly, you could try Finale, but it's quite a bit more complicated. It's also quite a bit more powerful, though.

Personally, I have both, but mainly use Noteworthy for actually composing and Finale for printing.

So I'd recommend Noteworthy if you'd rather notate than play the music in. :)

[eatpoo42]

isnt there somethign out called Midimaker?