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I think this is a cool feature but every time I used it, it sounds pretty choppy and using pitch-bend sound pretty un-natural. Also be cool for any pointers to polish up that sound. I realize its better to use it with straight leads and no pads/bass/etc in the background.

The second part of my question is, since I can't play keys for crap. Can I crop a sample lead, Slice to Midi and then throw a VST (Predator Synth for ex.) in that channel. So the lead melody routes into the VST giving it the same melody only different sound. I always hear new remixes of old tracks and find it hard to believe that the producer can play the exact keys that were played in the original. Theres gotta be some way to do this, maybe I'm straight wrong or is this impossible to do?

You can only extract timing with slide to midi. It doesn't convert pitched audio into the right midi note. Some producers are good enough at music to play the tunes that they are remixing. Its not all loops and audio to midi translation software y'know.

Birdhouse, the “slice to midi” function simply chops a sample up and allows you to play it back MPC style, rearranging it as you see fit.

condra wrote:Birdhouse, the “slice to midi” function simply chops a sample up and allows you to play it back MPC style, rearranging it as you see fit.

Roger, got that but is there any way or another method to convert audio to midi so I can change the sound of the notes playing. For example David Guetta's Snoop Dogg Collab "Wet" it is the same main lead melody for Felix's 91 Rave Classic, "Don't You Want Me". Like in my head I'm thinking he sampled that melody transferred the audio to midi and then through his new Synth Patch on top of it.

I mean maybe this could be a really cool new feature Ableton could develop, or maybe it already exists. I just don't know how to?

Surely someone (David Guetta or oher producer) re wrote the melody in your example.

what's more probable. musician works out another musician's tune and plays it or musician puts other musician's tune through melodyne to extract the midi. how good are the skills of Guetta?

Melodyne or spend 5 minutes.