Music

AIR_Wipeout · Post by **AIR_Wipeout** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 7:25 am

Ok, I have a real prob here...

As we all know, Monster Truck Madness 2 uses .wav files for music (whos stupid idea was that), and I have a midi (.mid) file I want to use. So, I've got no problem coverting it , but, when I convert it, its says its not a proper wave (.wav) file... I think this is because it's more than 60 seconds...

But anyway, does anyone know how to porperly covert a midi file thats about 1 minute, 30 seconds into a wav file so that it works and can be used for MTM2 music?

EDIT> NOTE: I cannot shorten it or it sounds really crappy.

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[This message has been edited by AIR_Wipeout (edited 13-08-2000).]

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 8:13 am

Open the wav in sound recorder or any other wav editor you like, then convert it to 8 bit, 11 kHz, mono.

See here for more details.

edit: doh, I should learn how to spell and type.

[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 13-08-2000).]

AIR_Wipeout · Post by **AIR_Wipeout** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 8:48 am

Thanks, but I think you may have misunderstood my problem...

I have a .mid file of the music I want, dollet.mid, which is 1m 30s long. I used Windows Media Player to covert Dollet.mid into Dollet.wav

But, when I try to play Dollet.wav, it says 'This is not a proper wave format file'. So, where can I get a program that converts them properly?

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-Wipeout

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 9:04 am

Try to pay attention.

Open the wav in sound recorder or any other wav editor you like, then convert it to

8 bit
11 kHz
mono

Don't know what I'm talking about? Follow the link above.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 9:24 am

I've never understood these comments on wav files longer than 60 secs. What's the deal?

When I went to college, I took radio broadcasting. All of our sound editing was done on PC's using wavs. I quite frequently would end up with wavs in excess of 30 minutes (some things would run for over an hour.)

Each of the stock music tracks in MTM2 are over a minute as well.

What is all this about the 60 secs?

Andy

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 11:05 am

The sixty second thing is irrelevent to mtm. I think the problem comes when someone tries to record a wav using windows sound recorder - which will only record for sixty seconds. It will, however, edit files that are longer.

AIR_Wipeout · Post by **AIR_Wipeout** » Sun Aug 13, 2000 11:11 am

Yes, I know that, but sound recorder won't open it because it isn't proper wav. and I have no other programs to edit the frequency of wav.s with.

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-Wipeout

Hacman · Post by **Hacman** » Fri Aug 18, 2000 11:58 pm

One program 4 u wipeout - cool edit pro even the early versions they will solve all your problems - i'm gonna post a early freeware version on my site soon - it solves all your problems

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AIR_Wipeout · Post by **AIR_Wipeout** » Sat Aug 19, 2000 5:05 am

Can someone post me a link to dl cooledit or something?

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-Wipeout

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Aug 19, 2000 6:47 am

Err...Ya.

Try...hmm, let's see, CoolEdit.Com

That was tough to figure out.

Fila · Post by **Fila** » Wed Jan 09, 2002 4:27 am

Does it really need to be 8bit, 11khz and mono? Because the volume isn't high enough and u can't hear it very good in the game.

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Post by **Phineus** » Wed Jan 09, 2002 8:39 am

Open it in 'sound recorder' and then use "increase volume by 25%". Do it three times then save, you should be okay.

P.S. make sure you back up the original file before making changes like this...just in case.

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Fila · Post by **Fila** » Thu Jan 10, 2002 1:57 am

Thnx Phin. I'll try it.

P.S. I saved it in around 3 locations.... u can never be too sure.

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