Sound1 to Sound2 Transistion

[Ray Mooney]

I have a MIDI sound that will play across all the slides in a long
presentation but the MIDI has to loop several times. I would like to have
the 1st MIDI end and another MIDI sound start ......

How do I set up that type of transistion?
The slides have other animations going on in them and the slides are set to
advance on mouse-click.

My latest sound transistion attempt was on the first slide;
- 1st MIDI: Auto start at beginning, slides set to 999
- 2nd MIDI: Auto start at beginning, after previous, slides set to 999

I can't seem to get this to work ..... Is is possible?

Thanks is advance for any help....

 

[Guest]

Hi Ray,

Set the first midi to play until the slide where you want the second midi to
start (for example: 10 instead of 999). Otherwise use a sound editor and
merge the two files.

Glenna

 

[Ray Mooney]

That's the trick.... I want the sound1 to transistion to sound2 when the 1st
song ends, not at a certian slide.
Because the slides advance on mouse click I can't predict when the first
sound will end.

Is there a freeware sound editior your aware of if I have to go that route?

Thanks!

 

[Sonia]

Midi files are not really "audio" files. Midis are to MP3s as WMFs are to JPGs.
Unless you are familiar with the midi format and have access to a midi editor,
you would be better off changing your choice of files.

If your heart is set on the midis, you can use google to find software that will
convert them to WAVs.

 

[Guest]

I agree with Sonia. Convert the midi files first. You find several programs
at www.download.com. My favorite is http://www.midconverter.com/ beacuse
it's so easy to use and doesn't require much thought on my part.

Glenna

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

PowerPoint is not too good at timings - and you certainly cannot achieve a
"proper" mix of the sounds as required. In addition, you probably need the
first sound to be playing while the second sound fades in - this cannot be
done with MIDI unless you are a proficient MIDI musician.

Ray, first of all convert the file format from MIDI to WAV:

http://www.indezine.com/products/sound/mid2wav.html

Then fade in the second sound using a wave editor - I have a tutorial using
Sony Sound Forge on my site - but there's no reason why you cannot do it
using a free sound editor like Audacity:

Sound Fades for PowerPoint - http://snipurl.com/soundfade

Once you have done that you have to work within PowerPoint to allow the
faded sound to play smoothly while the other sound is already playing - if
you cannot play two WAV sound streams (some sound cards cannot play two WAV
streams), let the first sound be a MIDI and only convert the second sound.

You'll have to do some trial and error runs with the sound timings,
especially if you have to play this in different PowerPoint versions.

If your computer is powerful enough and if you do not need to distribute the
presentation, mix in all sounds together in the wave editor itself and
insert it in PowerPoint - to balance the use of system resources, you can
resample the sound to a lower bitrate.


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