Software availability question

gnolan

Don't really know how to word this...but is there any software out there that will take an audio file and output the musical notes that are being played? I dont' know if it would create a midi file or anything but has anyone ever heard of such a program?

Neurojazz

You can do 'audio to midi' in Cubase, but it will only do simple melodies - not whole tracks.

gnolan

Neurojazz wrote: »

You can do 'audio to midi' in Cubase, but it will only do simple melodies - not whole tracks.

Well i'd be talking about short piano or guitar samples, would it work with that? Don't know if you'd be familiar with it, but i have Guitar Tracks Pro 3 by Cakewalk...would you know if this has a similar facility?

JonathanAnon

There are a number of wave to midi converters online if you google them. I've tried a few before but never worked that great for songs. If you are just converting individual melodies they should be able to handle that though.

gnolan

JonathanAnon wrote: »

There are a number of wave to midi converters online if you google them. I've tried a few before but never worked that great for songs. If you are just converting individual melodies they should be able to handle that though.

Can you recommend a good one? Took a look there and there are a lot....to say the least.

Neurojazz

There is no support for this function in Guitar Tracks Pro 3 -

manufan16

I heard in the new winamp if you play a song it shows the chords being played , not sure if its a plugin or what but it might be worth your while checking out

gnolan

manufan16 wrote: »

I heard in the new winamp if you play a song it shows the chords being played , not sure if its a plugin or what but it might be worth your while checking out

That would work well, but i'm actually looking for the individual notes. If i can convert the mp3 to midi, i can then import the midi into a program like guitar pro or another guitar tab editor

Neurojazz

Guitar Tracks has no midi support whatsoever (any version) - so worth maybe looking at a completely different workaround - what sort of music are you trying to get midi from? - parts of others music? - or your own?

If it's your own music you could get a guitar to midi converter and some other software to capture it?

Or are you making tab for teaching etc... -if you can fill us in on what you exactly want to do then we may be able to find a cheap work around.

gnolan

Neurojazz wrote: »

Guitar Tracks has no midi support whatsoever (any version) - so worth maybe looking at a completely different workaround - what sort of music are you trying to get midi from? - parts of others music? - or your own?

If it's your own music you could get a guitar to midi converter and some other software to capture it?

Or are you making tab for teaching etc... -if you can fill us in on what you exactly want to do then we may be able to find a cheap work around.

Thanks. Its other music (not mine) i'm trying to get tabbed, this particular track is a piano track. My plan was to convert to midi --> import into a tab editor and arrange the music so that its playable.

Does this midi converter look like it might do the trick for the conversion bit.

http://download.cnet.com/JetAudio-Basic/3000-2141_4-10013740.html?tag=mncol

Neurojazz

gnolan wrote: »

Thanks. Its other music (not mine) i'm trying to get tabbed, this particular track is a piano track. My plan was to convert to midi --> import into a tab editor and arrange the music so that its playable.

Does this midi converter look like it might do the trick for the conversion bit.

http://download.cnet.com/JetAudio-Basic/3000-2141_4-10013740.html?tag=mncol

That just looks like conversion between audio - the midi feature is for other stuff.

Maybe the tabs are already available online somewhere? - not sure if they would be legal! - or maybe they are available legally somewhere (you maybe need to post a query in the guitar forum?) - as the time it would take to convert and then fix these files would outweigh just buying the tab for the track by a mile.

No conversion software would be dead accurate.

gnolan

Neurojazz wrote: »

That just looks like conversion between audio - the midi feature is for other stuff.

Maybe the tabs are already available online somewhere? - not sure if they would be legal! - or maybe they are available legally somewhere (you maybe need to post a query in the guitar forum?) - as the time it would take to convert and then fix these files would outweigh just buying the tab for the track by a mile.

No conversion software would be dead accurate.

This particular tab isn't available to download, and can only be bought lumped in with a whole rake of other songs...works out to be expensive enough. The conversion and arrangement times are something i'm not too concerned about; unfortunately time is a commodity which i have an abundance of. Besides, i'd probably find the arrangement part pretty interesting.

Any chance you could recommend a good mp3 to midi converter? I appreciate the help

Neurojazz

Give that a bash and let us know if it works!

http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/

gnolan

Neurojazz wrote: »

Give that a bash and let us know if it works!

http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi/

Thanks, i'll report back with my inevitable problems!

madtheory

Melodyne will do that. Better to start with a WAV though, makes the job easier for the program, not something that was converted from mp3.

gnolan

Quick update, downloaded a trial version of Widi which seemed to work alrightish, probably good enough for what i wanted....but the midi wouldn't save, so couldn't import into guitar pro...now onto Plan B.

Oh yeah, i tried the pluto link, but the conversion was fairly awful