Korgscrew
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Posted: May 19 2002, 15:17 |
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Software that I've seen which is able to create a midi file from audio has worked with monophonic lines only - if you want to play a whole song in, they're not going to be any help at all. Things that work well also tend not to be cheap...
Roland did a stand alone pitch-midi convertor (again monophonic), the GI-10 (hope I've remembered that one right), at one time (which also worked together with one of their GK-2A guitar pickups to give polyphonic guitar-midi conversion). Yamaha also produced a similar box, and may still offer it. Either of those pieces of equipment would allow you to plug in any monophonic audio source and use it to generate midi note data.
I think it would be quicker to produce something like Matthew Cochrane's Muse by tapping notes into a sequencer (though I'd guess he might have used a keyboard or a midi guitar) than it would be by playing around trying to get a decent result out of any pitch-midi software (a bit like with OCR...maybe it's improved now, but it used to be quicker for me to type out something than to go through a document correcting all the mistakes the OCR software had made...).
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