MIDI is not audio, and audio is not MIDI.

MIDI is a set of instructions to play a MIDI enabled instrument (like a hardware or software synthesizer or sampler).

MIDI can be entered either manually with a computer keyboard and/or mouse or played into a sequencer or DAW in real time. I prefer the latter method.

When you play back a MIDI file on your computer it plays using the MIDI synth you select. It could be the software synth provided by your computer, a soft synth plug-in, or an external synth. In any case it will reproduce the original performance, but using your MIDI instrument.

I have plenty of synths, and the same voice (patch) does not sound the same on any of the two synths. Why? MIDI contains no sound data, it just tells the synth what to play. The synth is the instrument.

It's like playing something on an acoustic guitar, and playing the exact same thing on an electric. The music is the same, but the tone is different.

So the MIDI information on two different synths can be like that.

If you want to record the output of your chosen synth, and turn the MIDI information into an audio track, you can, there are plenty of tutorials on this. You could use most DAWs to perform this trick.

If you want to turn a MIDI track into a Real Track, that's a different subject all together, and as far as I know, it cannot be done.

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