Convert MIDI file to WAV using fluidsynth on OS X

Question

I'm trying to convert a MIDI file to a WAV file, on OS X.

So far, I have this:

fluidsynth -F output_sound soundfont.sf2 note.mid

This creates an output_sound file, however, that file is not WAV, it seems to be in sint16 format given that I get this output:

~ $ fluidsynth -O help
FluidSynth version 1.1.6
Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Peter Hanappe and others.
Distributed under the LGPL license.
SoundFont(R) is a registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.

-O options (audio file format):
   's16'

Is there an easy way to convert the output_sound to a WAV file in Terminal (or in any scriptable fashion)?

Answer 1

I found the easiest solution to be timidity:

timidity input.mid -Ow -o out.wav

If you use homebrew it's also trivial to install:

brew install timidity