Wave to MIDI conversion software?

[aNiMaLiOn]

Try Celemony's Melodyne. It can export audio as MIDI.
YouTube - Melodyne - Direct Note Access

[PaPi61]

Originally Posted by aNiMaLiOn

Try Celemony's Melodyne. It can export audio as MIDI.
YouTube - Melodyne - Direct Note Access

Just don't expect miracles...

[Franco]

A Google search for "audio to midi" found this:

Music Notation - Audio to MIDI, mp3 to MIDI, wav to MIDI...

(list of several programs that can "figure out" notes from audio files and translate them to MIDI).

[mtl777]

Thank you so much everyone for your suggestions! The list of audio-to-MIDI software is very helpful. I didn't know there were so many choices. Now the tough part is finding out which one is the best!

[PaPi61]

Originally Posted by mtl777

Thank you so much everyone for your suggestions! The list of audio-to-MIDI software is very helpful. I didn't know there were so many choices. Now the tough part is finding out which one is the best!

Melodyne is still the best. But it requires a lot of manual adjustments to achieve something you can work with. Don't expect to just push a button and get a perfect MIDI file.

[Matti]

Widi isn't perfect either but an option?

Matti

[eve69]

The only reali time audio to midi conversion is Widi Audio to Midi VST. As a vst it can be plugged between any audio source and the VSTi of your choice. It runs 70 bucks now in 2012. Too much for a blasted piece of software. Widi standalone is A Melodyne analogue. Pointless

But there is also the piece of hardware called Sonuus and the I2m can transform any audio instrument into midi on the fly.

[Bill@WelcomeHome]

Originally Posted by mtl777

Hey guys, do you know of any software that can take a live input of a guitar, convert the notes played to MIDI, and trigger a synth with the MIDI notes - all of these done in real time? Something like a guitar synth in software. Any good ones out there?

Thanks a lot!

The best answer is a GraphTech Ghost MIDI pickup and any of the note-to-MIDI control boxes. The better ones in terms of speed don't have their own sounds. I have a Roland.

The big issue is that few guitarists play cleanly enough. They leave ghost notes all over the place. And MIDI doesn't track slides or bends that well.

There are many guitar players who were able to adopt MIDI into their live shows.

I find it to be a very expressive and useful tool for recording MIDI parts. A keyboard just doesn't do justice to the attack of strings, for example. Using a guitar to play string parts lead me to a much more natural string sound. Some woodwinds, too. Having keys, MIDI guitar and MIDI drums, one can pick the MIDI controller that yields the best characteristics of the instrument that is being emulated.

This is a far more accurate way (and with less latency) to get MIDI notes from a guitar. I haven't tried any of the software converters in years, but when I did they required a lot of pissing around.

[eve69]

The only free audio to midi on the fly converter is made by Fretted Synth called 'Junction.' Fretted Synth Audio, freeware VST effect and instrument plug-ins at rekkerd.org It works really well. If you're trying to change the basic instrument sound then turn it's volumn low, turn the synth's output high, and put 'trigger' at '0.'




Run Beer Run also have some DSP trigs which might be used off label.