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


Hugo

This is what I think I'm after until I can afford Melodyne.

I mean come on, why doesnt everyone have Melodyne, what a fooookin bit of kit! Get your amens singing with your singer, wikid stuff!

Has anyone used Melodyne? Do you open it form owithin your DAW?

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.

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.

FreakOscope is a freeware VST spectrum analyser that has that function.

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

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.

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(?).

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?

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.

Is that the question?[/quote]

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.

logic can do well with monophonic if parameters are set right,...
but melodyne is the ultimat shit,...sorry guys,...
its industry standard and its going to be polyphonic in oct 2008,
dont believe?
pleas check video:
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best tool evar.