Check out this tutorial on rendering MIDIs with Audio Compositor.

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3. Setting input options

Select the instrument file you want to use (see Step 1) on the renderer's Input tab.

The first box on the Input tab tells Audio Compositor where to find the instrument set to use for rendering. For example, if you're using a General MIDI SoundFont as discussed earlier, type the complete path to the SF2 file in the box, or better yet click the small button next to it to browse your hard disk for it:

If you'll be using the same instrument file repeatedly, you can set an option (see Edit | Preferences) to load it automatically every time you open a MIDI file.

The other controls on this tab are of interest mainly to experienced users. The Reload button is useful if you're editing the instrument file between rendering jobs. Clear cache removes previously cached instruments from memory. The controls on the right-hand side are for precise selection of starting and ending points.

4. Setting output options

On the renderer's Output tab, select the sample rate and other options for Audio Compositor's output.

This is where you tell Audio Compositor where to send its output, and at what level of quality. You can write output to a .WAV file, to your sound card, or to both at once: simply check the appropriate boxes. If you choose file output, by default AC will create a .WAV file with the same name, and in the same directory, as your MIDI file. To override this default, click the small button next to the Output File box and select another location.

Other options on this page allow you to trade off output quality versus speed of processing. If you're rendering to a .WAV file, which you'll play back later or perhaps burn to a CD, then you'll want stereo output at a high sampling rate (44100 for audio CDs). These options are available in registered copies of AC.

If you're rendering to your sound card so that you can listen to AC as it runs, using a lower sample rate will help AC work fast enough to produce continuous output, avoiding the "broken record" effect that can afflict direct-to-soundcard rendering on slower machines.

Audio Compositor is a professional-quality MIDI file renderer and software wavetable synthesizer. It provides a graphical environment for editing instrument samples and patches, and in most ways its organization resembles that of a traditional MIDI module.

Software author Scott Mitchell's site can be visited at http://home.att.net/~audiocompositor/ Contine to Starting the renderer

 

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