Daily Archive for October 31st, 2006

Converting Batch of NWCs to MIDis to MP3 to CD

Steps
1. Preparing NWC files.
2. Save as Midis
3. Convert Midi to Wave/Mp3
4. Burn the Files

Step 1: Preparing NWC files.
Find available nwc files on the net, otherwise creating, composing, importing, transposing or editing songs in NWC is relatively easy.

Step 2: Save to midi
If you have noteworthy composer, you can save the song as a midi file. Otherwise, or if you prefer batch processing, you could try my nwc2ly.py converter.

Step 3: To convert midi to wav/mp3 you need a software synthesizer.

SynthFont is a great windows freeware which uses SoundFonts to render the wav/mp3s. TiMidity is the popular open source software synthesizer on multiple plateforms.

Side note: Other cool free MP3 tools are Audacity, Messer & RazerLame

Step 4: Burning to CDs
Most general purpose Cd writing software and many free utilities would support creating audio CDs with mp3s or wave.