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Hi all looking for some advice to convert some of my cassette tunes (that are now saved as MP3 on my PC) with Live, with the aim that Live could decode some of the tunes and drums as I have forgotten the notes I played back in the 80s and early 90s, when I used to record a lot of synth tunes onto tape. Basically drums and a few keyboard. Back then I used to use C-Lab creator with most of these tunes were originally done on a SH-09/101, Jupiter 4/Juno 106 through to a Roland JD800

Currently using Live 9 Intro
Thanks in advance for any tips pointers
Ian

monophonic101 wrote:convert some of my cassette tunes (that are now saved as MP3 on my PC) with Live, with the aim that Live could decode some of the tunes

Decode to what specifically?

hi sorry, I mean change the MP3 synth sounds whether bass or drum sounds to notes

Hope this helps

monophonic101 wrote:hi sorry, I mean change the MP3 synth sounds whether bass or drum sounds to notes

You certainly didn't increase that chance by encoding to a lossy audio format like MP3. I'd rerecord as WAV or AIFF.

Depending on the music you might be able to get some MIDI data out of it, but I don't believe Live is the best tool for this job even if Standard and Suite have Audio to MIDI. You're going to do a lot — many, many hours — of cleaning up and editing. Probably much easier and faster to just pick everything out by ear.

That, or get a dedicated tool.

The Audio to MIDI functions in Live would be your closest bet, but as mentioned, I don't think you're going to get very clean results like you're expected. I don't know of any software that can be that accurate with something already recorded and mixed down. Melodyne perhaps, but I think it will still take a lot of massaging to clean it up enough to be useable.