Disklavier

It’s funny…. I’ve been messing with MIDI for… jeez, close to 30 years…. since the late 80s… and this issue and desire and hope has been around since then… all sorts of attempts to take an analog signal, even a relatively clean single pitch — and turn it into MIDI. Back then it was very hit and miss — there was limited success, but the hardware and software was really in its infancy. Lots of wrong notes.

Here we are, 30 years later, and the issue really hasn’t been solved to anyone’s satisfaction.  It says a lot about the human brain, that it can listen to all sorts of polyphonic music and follow individual melodies and instruments. You can sit in a concert hall and listen to just the cellos, just the timpani, whatever. Your brain can do it.

But with all the hardware horsepower and software innovation of three decades, a computer still can’t pick out a simple melody out of the cacophony of everything around it.

…..HK

> On Feb 11, 2016, at 1:11 PM, 'Danny' usergroup@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com> [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com>] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 3:44 PM
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com <mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [disklavier] Convert MP3 or any music file to MIDI?
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> 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.
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> thank you kindly.   Carl
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