Identify Individual Notes in an Audio Sample

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MCL
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Identify Individual Notes in an Audio Sample

Post by MCL » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:40 pm

Searched this question but didn't find anything that wasn't ten years old.

Is there a Live tool or third party plugin that can accurately identify the individual notes being played in an audio sample?

I'm not talking about finding the key of a song or the root note of a chord but rather the actual individual notes being played in a solo.

In my case I have a keyboard solo that I want to reproduce myself playing live while creating MIDI notes so I can also modify it. In the original audio sample the solo is being played very fast and it's extremely complicated, so even if I slow it down it's difficult for me to pick out each note correctly.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

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Re: Identify Individual Notes in an Audio Sample

Post by Shift Gorden » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:53 pm

Kinda.

If the solo doesn't have much background stuff going on, you might get lucky.

Third-party-wise, Melodyne should help.

Ableton can also convert audio to a melody.

Like I said though, really needs to be a true "solo" for it to work properly.

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Re: Identify Individual Notes in an Audio Sample

Post by amigo » Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:19 pm

If there is nothing else going on in the sample but the sound you want to identify, I would suggest you use EQ8. If you hover your mouse over the peaks EQ8 will identify which note is being played. I have always found this to be very accurate.

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