From:	Ali Bharmal <ucam_galileo AT geocities DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: midi wav convertor
Date:	Sat, 07 Jun 1997 09:51:15 +0100
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Chia wrote:
> 
> Hello!
>  I need to convert a .wav file into a midi file.  does anyone know a
> program to download?  Thanks!
> 
>                 chia AT top DOT net


Not possible, if you mean a .wav of just music. The reason is, that a
.wav file contains the digital representations of the original sounds,
whereas the midi file is more like the score - it contains what notes,
lengths, attacks, decays etc... the music should have, but not what they
should sound like e.g. a .wav file will sound (almost) identical on all
sound cards, but a midi file won't.

An analogy would be with vector and bitmap graphics, a wav file being
like a bitmap; only telling you what the picture will look like, and a
midi file like the vector file; telling you how to draw the picture, but
not rigidly define it.
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