Audio to midi converting? Anyone know of a tool?

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Post by dj $hy » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:38 am

huggie wrote:
There is also a Plug-in called "Widi - Audio To MIDI VST" : http://www.widisoft.com/english/widi-au ... i-vst.html


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Post by theonelikepaul » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:15 pm

Bit of a long winded method, but you could watch the acapella through a spectral analyser and check what frequencies are occuring.

From there you can work out which notes to play against it.

I use FL8 and the Parametric EQ2 for this purpose.

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Post by mrhope » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:27 pm

theonelikepaul wrote:Bit of a long winded method, but you could watch the acapella through a spectral analyser and check what frequencies are occuring.

From there you can work out which notes to play against it.
I use FL8 and the Parametric EQ2 for this purpose.

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FreakOscope is a freeware VST spectrum analyser that has that function.
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Post by promo » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:20 pm

Virtually impossible unless you have a very clean dry sample. Melodyne as others have mentioned would be your best bet.

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Post by slim » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:35 pm

rather than using the spectral analyser, why not just play along on a midi controller / whatever other instrument and work it out that way? Sounds crazily complicated doing it that way.

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Post by theonelikepaul » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:19 am

Slim wrote:rather than using the spectral analyser, why not just play along on a midi controller / whatever other instrument and work it out that way? Sounds crazily complicated doing it that way.
I'm not musically trained so I can't just lay down notes based on hearing something. (I probably could after a lot of trial and error).

I simply keep the spectral anyliser running, I can use it to check which notes "an acapella" is singing (as there are no instruments in the background).

I can then build sounds around that, bass n stuff, or other samples that fire on the same frequencies.

You'll always need this running anyway to check your bass is sitting in the right freq range innit(?).

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Post by futures_untold » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:32 am

Re: original thread title...

Yes, you'll find a few here ---->http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=15

I haven't tried any of them though, so I can't vouch for their abilitiy to function as advertised? :|

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Post by phonetic system » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:46 am

If you have ableton, you can highlight an audio clip, right click and select slice to midi. it works well if you are trying to slice a beat or something, it can be done using reason with recycle, converting the audio sample to an .rex2 file and slicing it up in the Dr.Rex application.

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Post by 0rnine » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:12 pm

hiya, i do this a bit to experiment and use a program called "amazing Midi", which is freeware and available here

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AmazingMIDI/

basically you get your sample, cut out a "tone file", which is a single note (or as close as you can get) and input that with the audio file. the results are far far from perfect, but oviously get better if the thing your trying to convert is solo, clean notes. nevertheless as its a midi file its easy to alter with another program and clean up (this stage is pretty much essential if you wanna use it to make a bassline/ clear melody).

i tried doing it on whole songs and it sounds like a drunk avant guarde pianist mashing the keys with his fist.

anyways, worth a play.

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Post by drwurst » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:46 pm

logic can do well with monophonic if parameters are set right,...
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