Need a pgrogram that gives notes of a sample.

astedra · Joined: May 12, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Toronto

Computers a making me lazy. Is there a program that gives me the notes of a sample? My ears are not sensitive as to pick up the notes I hear yet. Although I'm eventually going to have to learn to play the piano, this came into my head as an aid. If I sing into a mic, is there a program that gives me that notes for it, so that I could go and play it in Reason whatever I have song in the mic.

Thanks,

Keysandslots · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:54 am Post subject:

Ah, the holy grail, audio to MIDI conversion. People have been talking about this since, uh, since MIDI became popular. The bad news is that I've never heard of anything that has pulled this off. The good news is that once you start doing it the old-fashioned way, your ears actually get better at it over time.

If the only thing I'm trying to "lift" (transcribe) is a single line melody, sometimes I'll just play it on the synth into a sequencer program, do some clean up, and then I have the melody in MIDI.

Randy

DrJustice · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:24 am Post subject:

The company Celemony_ makes software that can analyse and edit audio. The cheapest version, Melodyne uno, will analyze audio input and transcribe it. To get MIDI output you need at least Melodyne cre8. Melodyne can only analyse monophonic input. One of the main features of it, in addition to the analysis, is that it actually lets you edit the audio in a piano roll interface(!).

There may be other software offerings that can do similar things. I haven't tried Melodyne myself, but I'm sure you can find reviews of it on the net. The real challenge, which I can't see how to overcome yet, is to do the same for polyphonic music...

DJ
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astedra · Joined: May 12, 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Toronto

Somebody sad just use a guitar tuner for $30, sing into it and it will give me the notes.

seraph · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

DrJustice · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject:

Ahh... I should've remebered - HAL's Italian cousin. Very cool! Very Happy

DJ
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Kassen · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:26 am Post subject: Re: re

peterw · Joined: Jan 10, 2007 Posts: 18 Location: This Small Island

X-Electric · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:

Few years ago I've used InelliScore Polyphonic to convert polyphonic melodies to MIDI. Besides some error "random" notes here and there (actually there were plenty of them all around) it worked pretty well, and with some effort made to manually clean the track from errors it could be very useful.

Nth L0gik · Joined: Jul 07, 2007 Posts: 71 Location: near DC,USA

if the sequencer of choice has a "piano roll" feature...
then you would find the root key @ C3,C4 or C5.
every note inbetween is a diff sample ......