Hi all. Terribly sorry for not being able to reply sooner. I have had terrible problems with Cookies and passwords being remembered on PPRuNe. I sign in, and reply, and press submit and it says im not signed in!! Stupid thing. (and i ddnt see a reply button for my private message WCollons..sorry about that).
Well, I saw him yesterday (saturday), and we sorted it. Fortunately he had Sibelius 1.4 as well as 2.0. We had to get the MIDI files he was given on floppy, put into Sibelius, and saved then, as Sibeleus files.. This of which, he had done previously. We needed these to become WAV files, and in turn be burnt onto CD ROM. As you cant save MIDI on floppy disc.
Well, success!! I figured out over the 3 hours it took me, that if we saved the Sibelius file as MIDI, in SB2, we could open it in SB1.4, and the "notation" problem I was talking about is corrected. SB2 seems to be worse than its predecessor!
What the notation problem was, was that the second bar had three groups of triplets, and it needed to be that quick 123 123 123 but SB2 was scoring that at an incorrect rhthym and it rele did sound awful. We saved it as MIDI and changed the name slightly as to not over-write (made that mistake before-put a 2 after it or something), and we opened the new MIDI in SB1.4. It scored it perfectly, with ther triplet feel that we needed. We then wrote down a protocol to follow and that was that sorted.
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We had to get that new MIDI with the correct rhythm, into a WAV file. Well this took too bloody long however I managed to find a solution. What it is is to get WINAMP, and make some settings (which I found by searching the net...some clever computer nerd must have sat for ages figuring it al out...so thanks whoever that was)....and then we did what it said..and it worked.
You simply make the settings, shut down winamp, re-open it...open the MIDI file you want (from SB1.4 remember, as this plays the correct rhtym), and play it. You wont hear anything for some reason but he said to expect that on the instructions. When the song is finished, press stop and close or minimise WINAMP.
Go to My Computer...Click your Hardrive name..( C: normally), and in there, you will see a Realplayer file named OUT by default. Play that, and you have your MIDI converted in WAV!! Fantastic!
Then we reliased that when we did another, it ddnt make another OUT file, called OUT2 you would have thought. It ADDED it to the first! Simple way round that....Make a new folder on the desktop. We caled ours WAVE Files. Then, drag the "OUT" file from the C: folder and you are able to rename it in there to whatever it needs to be. Then, you can do as many as neccersary, without over-writing the first.
All in a good days work
Smooth skies,
Dan
Forgot about putting themon disc. Dont try and do it through NERO as it doesnt like reading WINAMP waves. (yea, theres different ones it appears...dont understand that).
Go to REALPLAYER, open the Burn CD through TOOLS. Theres for little buttons. Clock on each but three (as thats the settings for recording which are set at default so leave those). The first button searches the songs (if i remember right), the second does something else...ignore the third, and the fourth wacks them onto CD.
Dont know why it doesnt work through NERO, but if you want the MIDI converted WAV files onto CD...do it through real plaer
