Originally Posted By: Mike Head
Hi Jonel

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There are third part programs that claim to be able to produce midi for audio
But unless we are dealing with single instrument audio don’t expect good results, and then it will be not much more than just note data suitable for simple notation.
You can’t expect to unmake a cake and get the separate ingredients out as separate midi voices from a audio recording of a big band or orchestra.
How would it know what note went with what midi instrument for a start?
So don’t go there and waste your money,
Just my thoughts,
Mike


Mike, I agree with that statement if you are talking about horn lines. You will loose all of the nuances of those lines that you must reconstruct using CCs and that can be very time consuming. But it can be done if need be: As an example of why you would do that would be to change a RT sax to a MIDI flute or if you wanted the RT to play your melody. Been there - done that.

But if the guitar track is a rhythm track then Melodyne Editor does an excellent job of transcribing polyphonic audio to MIDI. I have done it when things needed to be changed, like a C to a Cm or a C to a C# chord. I have also done it to clone an audio track to a MIDI track. Converting an audio finger picking guitar track to a MIDI zither track and playing both tracks simultaneously can add some very interesting parts.

Converting audio to MIDI can be a very trying experience. I have used many different programs with little success but Melodyne Editor is absolutely the best that I have ever used.

Note I do not work for Melodyne.

Last edited by MarioD; 02/14/20 04:17 AM.
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