Disklavier

Hi,

 

This has been questioned many times in the past (audio to MIDI). Due to the complexity of audio waveforms, this would be a tremendous task to achieve.

 

Recently, there are a couple of ways now to do this, but with somewhat limited success. If the audio is not polyphonic (only one note at a time, no chords or other instruments playing at the same time, relative background silence between notes, etc ), there are a couple of programs that now claim to be able to do this. I have tried using one of them and it generally works very well, depending on the complexity of the audio. Amazingly, it can also ‘extract’ multi-note MIDI note (not certain of conversion audio velocity / loudness and such; my experiment was very brief) info from some chords also.

 

Ableton Live is one of the two programs that I am aware that can do this, but this is not free software. It is a sequencer of sorts, and is the one I have experimented with, with some success (mine is Ableton Live Suite, the most expensive version; not certain if the ‘lower tier’ Ableton Live versions will do the audio to MIDI extraction).

 

Another program is Melodyne which does also allows audio to MIDI extraction; I also have it, but have never tried the MIDI extraction capability with it.

 

 

Danny

 

From: disklavier@...m [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:44 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Convert MP3 or any music file to MIDI?

 






I was wondering if anyone has had good luck with a process or a product they have used to convert MP3 files to MIDI files?  I was thinking of buying Intelliscore to do it, but wanted to get anyones experience with that or a better product or process before i do.

 

thank you kindly.   Carl