Audio to Midi

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23kon
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Audio to Midi

Post by 23kon » Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:09 pm

Anyone know of a way to convert AUDIO to MIDI?
I'm not meaning the 'slice to midi' function in Live.
I've got a piano track as audio that i'd like to convert to midi so that I can find out what the notes/chords are.

I have already googled it and there seems to be some programs out there that do this.
Just wanted to see if anyone had a recommendation of which one to use or knew of another way to do this.

Thanks.
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23kon
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by 23kon » Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:25 pm

Going to give this "AmazingMidi" a go to see how good it is. Only grabs 30 seconds though in demo.
http://download.cnet.com/AmazingMIDI/30 ... ag=mncol;8
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by jamief » Sat Oct 29, 2011 2:45 pm

melodyne does this. its pretty good at the job

23kon
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by 23kon » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:39 pm

Cheers for that suggestion. I'd seen it mentioned on YouTube.
That AmazingMidi is crap. It output lots of randomness :S

Isnt it a ProTools plugin? or does it work in Live too?
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23kon
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by 23kon » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:54 pm

Ah you meant http://www.celemony.com/cms/

Which version is it i'd need to convert audio>midi?
Stidio or Editor?
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by simmerdown » Sat Oct 29, 2011 5:09 pm

if you just want to know what the notes are try tuneit vst...isolate a note and look, very accurate, i use it all the time to find key of sample then write bass parts to fit....

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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by 23kon » Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:28 pm

I might look at the tuneit vst.

I downloaded the demo of Melodyne and got it working :)
The notes were quite accurate.
Ableton didnt recognise it as a VST so had to use it standalone.
When I saved out the midi file and imported into Live the timing was all messed up :S
So i ended up having to have the melodyne program open and created a new midi clip in ableton and programmed in all the notes manually. It took AGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by PHY6 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:17 am

23kon wrote:I might look at the tuneit vst.

I downloaded the demo of Melodyne and got it working :)
The notes were quite accurate.
Ableton didnt recognise it as a VST so had to use it standalone.
When I saved out the midi file and imported into Live the timing was all messed up :S
So i ended up having to have the melodyne program open and created a new midi clip in ableton and programmed in all the notes manually. It took AGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't cut audio into a loop, it won't be in time either...theres your problem...

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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by djanciano » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:14 pm

Or look at this site: http://www.widisoft.com/
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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by jamief » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:28 pm

23kon wrote:I might look at the tuneit vst.

I downloaded the demo of Melodyne and got it working :)
The notes were quite accurate.
Ableton didnt recognise it as a VST so had to use it standalone.
When I saved out the midi file and imported into Live the timing was all messed up :S
So i ended up having to have the melodyne program open and created a new midi clip in ableton and programmed in all the notes manually. It took AGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes the accuracy thing sometimes needs to be manually adjusted

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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by Rave » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:38 pm

Cubase 5 and 6 do this

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Re: Audio to Midi

Post by elementv » Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:35 pm

+1 for WIDI on the Mac side.

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