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MarioD,

It is important that I am able to print the music out after it is created. I have been looking at some of the tutorials and it is my understanding that you can extract vocals or instrument parts from a CD and assign them to individual channels-- is that correct???



Unfortunately no. There is no program currently on the market that can extract parts from a CD. It’s impossible. That’s like saying “now that the cake is baked let’s take out the eggs”. Some programs claim they can take out the vocals but all they are doing is taking a frequency range from the center of the stereo field. Now if the vocal is off center and/or not in the range specified by the software it will not be eliminated. Also ANYTHING in the frequency range specified by the software will be eliminated, not a good thing



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Also, I want to be able to sing a vocal, melody line into the software and add harmony parts to it. If you are saying that I can not print the finished song to sheet music that would be a major problem.

Thanks for everyone's input so far.
Stockerup



That is correct. You can not print out audio parts. If you know music and can input the notes like Sam said by either via a midi instrument or by hand then you can print that out.

Sam also mentioned Melodyne. That is one of the leading audio to midi programs out there right now. However your mono audio track must be very clean with no slides, vibrato etc. for it to almost work. You will have a lot of editing to do after the transition. That’s not a slap to Melodyne as it is extremely difficult to go from audio to midi. They are the leaders but they are not 100% accurate.

Can you read and write music? If you can do than midi is no problem for you.

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