Converting OctamedSS to MP3

[Jpan1]

Hello fellow Amigans,

I was wondering if anyone knows how to convert Octamed Soundstudio songs to MP3 which will include MIDI as part of the songs. I've managed to convert my protracker Mods by importing them into Madtracker. But since I sold my Yamaha PSR, I've not been able to get the MIDI running in sync when I use standard GM Midi sounds from the computer instead of my Yamaha GM sounds. It would be nice to get this all in sync and then convert it from my PC to into MP3. Unfortanatly, my real Amiga is in England in the garage! and all I have to work with is the data from my Emulated Octamed Soundstudio on the PC.
Any tips, greatly appreciated.

[Jpan1]

Thanks for the advice I'll probably do as you said and mix down the midi and sample based sounds separately. Or even do away with the midi by converting them into samples and then record the whole lot as MP3 or Ogg. Thanks again for the useful tips.

[Jpan1]

Another way of doing this is to just use a mixer to mix your live OMSS sample replay and the MIDI device's output and then capture the whole lot.

I prefer the former since it gives me more options for post-production during the final mixdown. Sometimes, I record several components of a track in isolation, purely for this reason.

Yes, this was the best sound experience when I output the MIDI-keyboard sounds and Amiga samples through my yamaha mixer played the song back via OMSS and then I would adjust the volumes using the mixer. This worked fine and I got a decent rich sound from both.

I'm going to try save the the midi sounds as a MIDI file, and then import this onto a PC music tracker which can also playback Amiga .mod file and combine the two and see how this works.

As long as the playback routine is in sync I should be able record it as one file.
The GMmidi sounds on my PC don't sound as good as the one from Keyboard, but I'm sure I can find us an FM synth as a plugin and use this instead of sampled sounds for the MIDI.