Re: Exporting Sound
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- Subject: [mg83887] Re: Exporting Sound
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:10:44 -0500 (EST)
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Jerry wrote: > Sir, thanks for your tip on recording a midi file. > > Funny though, when I use > > ding = SoundNote["F", 1, "Tinklebell"]; > > Sound[ding] > > I play it in V6 and I hear the note. > Then I record it to a file as you suggest: > > Export["ding.mid", Sound[ding], "Sound"] > > I then double click ding.mid in the directory where it was > placed and I get MediaPlayer and I hear a sound. But, it's > clearly not the same sound. It's the same length and type > but it's at a higher frequency. Any idea why? > I think that Java has its own built-in synthesizer (it does not use the one in Windows), and Mathematica plays MIDI through Java. So a difference is expected, but you are right that the difference in this case is striking. -- Szabolcs