Tips: recording

Mozart 16.0 introduced the ability to export .mp3 and .wav audio files directly from Mozart. This article applies to that and later versions.

Recording your MOZART pieces

Creating a CD (or memory stick) which will play back in a standard sound system is done in two steps:

Save audio files (.wav or .mp3)
Compile an audio CD using those files

From Mozart 16, audo files (both .wav and .mp3 ) can be saved directly from Mozart's File:Export menu.

And if you have a CD-writer, then the software which comes with it will almost certainly allow you to compile an audio CD from these files. Consult the CD writer software manual about how to go about this.

Further advice may be available from others who have done this if you join, or start, a discussion on

Mozart's chat/support group

Further options

All mechanisms for creating audio files (Mozart's included) start with the creation of a MIDI file (actual or virtual), and then involve creating an audio file from the MIDI. Before the advent of Mozart 16, you had to use 3rd party software to convert a MIDI file exported from Mozart to .wav or .mp3. This is essentially done by playing the MIDI (ie sending the MIDI events to a synthesiser in order to produce sound) and capturing the synthesised sound output in the form of an audio file. A number of Mozartists developed considerable expertise in this area, and two, Nigel Parsons and Raymond Robijns, provided us with articles describing their methods. We include them here as they may still be of interest:

(Please note that both of these were writen in the pre-Mozart-16 era, and we've left them unedited, and so some of their statements about Mozart may ve out of date.)