IS there a way of converting MIDIs to either a WAV or looped format... by TheUltimateKoopa at 10:20 PM EDT on September 24, 2012
...in foobar2000, by somehow converting the 'loopStart' and 'loopEnd' points to 'samples' or something?
Either that, or simply converting 'ticks' to a length of time?
For example, I have a MIDI at 140 bpm (constant tempo) with a loop start of 480, and loop end of 4704. I assume those are 'ticks'.
I know that in this case, 4704 ticks would be 85 seconds, so I could just simply do 480/4704 * 85 = ~8.67 seconds, so the loop is roughly 0:08.67 to 1:25.00?
edited 10:46 PM EDT September 24, 2012
edited 10:51 PM EDT September 24, 2012
Un moyen de convertir un format midi en wav, Et un logiciel qui mixe et fait des boucles. by Vravolmardo at 9:38 AM EST on December 22, 2012
SynthFont un logiciel qui importe un fichier midi, tu peux convertir le midi en format wav, Audacity qui permet de mixer ou faire des boucles de piste.
He's suggesting rendering the midi to .wav with SynthFont and then looping the .wav with audacity or similar. I don't know quite why he responded in French, though, and he's not really answering the question, unless he's talking about the RIFF sample loop support, I don't know if Audacity supports this (vgmstream does, rename .lwav if you have that metadata in a smpl chunk).
Key words: fait des boucles = make loops, logiciel = program, moyen = means/way, fichier = file, piste = track.
You could transcode to .ogg, rename .logg, and add loopStart and loopEnd comments (in samples), and that will loop in vgmstream, that's the easiest way I know of; whoever updated the FF7 port seems to agree. I understand there is a vgmstream plugin for foobar so that might be your best bet.
I updated my MIDI plugin thing for foobar2000, which now displays samples, but now my question is, is there a way of making it so that it automatically converts to a looped file (e.g. LWAV) and contains those same sample numbers?