converting audio files to MIDI files on Macs

generictwin · Post by **generictwin** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:58 pm

Is there a plugin or does Live 5 convert audio files into MIDI files on OS X Tiger? Is this possible? Imagine the possibilities!

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:52 pm

What are you trying to accomplish?

Cheers,
Mikael

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:57 pm

No such thing. But you can strip the timing out of a drum groove with recycle and use it to quantize in Reason...

But converting a melody (wave) to a MIDI (pure digital) isn't possible.

zebastian21 · Post by **zebastian21** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:21 pm

But converting a melody (wave) to a MIDI (pure digital) isn't possible.[/quote]

HEHEH yes it is...get yourself Melodyne

3phase · Post by **3phase** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:23 pm

generictwin wrote:Is there a plugin or does Live 5 convert audio files into MIDI files on OS X Tiger? Is this possible? Imagine the possibilities!

Under os 9 you can use opcose studio vision to convert monophon lines to midi..
It works very well...

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:24 pm

I'll be damned

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:50 pm

There are a few audio-midi converters for Windows, haven't seen a dedicated app for mac that does this. Friend of mine tried putting some terrible death metal through one of these converters and it did manage to pick out lines of piano and guitar from within the track and most of the drums.

DJSK · Post by **DJSK** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:22 pm

I am not too sure about mac but there are a few PC programs over at cnet downloads. www.cnet.com

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:58 pm

Melodyne is definitely the best one.

Kush'd · Post by **Kush'd** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:15 am

You could always get a similar result with a vocoder.

generictwin · Post by **generictwin** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:50 pm

well basically what i would like to do is take a line in audio signal and have some application interpret it as a polyphonic MIDI file. I think this would somewhat "missinterpret" it in interesting ways that i can manipulate and reproccess in new ways. There are apps out there that do this but i'm having trouble finding one for OS 10! These apps are meant to take in a singing voice or trumpet/guitar or something. I would like to put in other weirder sounds.

Kush'd · Post by **Kush'd** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:51 pm

Have you tried using the vocoder in Reason?

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:03 pm

I really don't think he has any use for a vocoder for what he's trying to accomplish...

He needs a plug that "listens" to an audio file and then passes on the notes to another synth. The polyphonic part might be hard...

Cheers,
Mikael

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:55 pm

I think the possibility of converting audio to midi is definitely there, generictwin, although windows has more options than mac in that regard. But I don't think it would be possible to do this from a line-in signal, ie in real time. The PC versions I've seen take while to analyse the audio and output it as a midi file.

converting audio files to MIDI files on Macs

converting audio files to MIDI files on Macs

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