mp3 to midi

[shanless]

Hello, Portable intelliScore Ensemble 7.0 Also Anvil Studio.
IntelliScore Ensemble is the only product in the world that can listen to a musical audio file (CD, WAV,MP3, WMA) comprised of several different instruments and convert it to a multiple track MIDI file containing the notes played, broken down by instrument. Convert polyphonic MP3 to MIDI, WAV to MIDI (.mid). Spend less time figuring out the notes Create notation from your favorite WAV, MP3, WMA, and CD music using intelliScore with the included Anvil StudioTM or other sequencer Change individual notes, swap instruments, transpose your WAV, MP3, and WMA music, etc. See the names of chords present in your WAV, MP3, or WMA file Grab music from a CD and convert to a MIDI (.mid) file. Play it in your MIDI keyboard Compose MIDI directly in your sequencer by playing your non-MIDI instrument MIDI-enable any musical instrument. Play your synthesizer simply by singing into intelliScore Easy to use wizard interface Currently over £100/$140. ONLY £4.95 Item is emailed
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Anvil Studio Windows 7 / Vista / XP program designed for people who want to:
record music with MIDI and Audio equipment,
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[glow=red,2,300]MAYBE OTHER MEMBERS GOT THIS EMAIL TOO....WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?
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[frank]

Wont believe it till I hear the Midi made from it.
Meanwhile I am working on a reverse mincer that can convert a hamburger into an Angus bull !!

[oldsage]

from what i hear,the new flagship Korg PAX3 can actually take out the vocals on and mp3 so you can either play along or sing!! It doesn,t say what it will cost though.its an awesome piece of kit,if it can also record the backing,and save it as a midi too!! mmmm!!.it uses midi/mp3/wav songs/backings etc.

[JohnG]

Some little while ago I did mess around (N.B. not seriously experiment) with Intelliscore Ensemble.

It's true that it makes a much better job, if you know the instruments of the original recording, of decoding audio back to MIDI. But what is 'much better' than 'completely abysmal?' (the others.)

Well, it does seem to be able to analyse the audio for the various frequency bands that different instruments fall into and then attempt to separate those into tracks.
Was I able to use it sufficiently well to warrant buying it? Of course, your experiences may differ and it may do enough for you.

I'll leave you to guess the answer, whilst I tell you that I recently decided to shell out for Band in a Box 2011. They had a special offer on shortly after Christmas. My word it's a HUGE download. HUMUNGOUS!
Still learning.

Anvil Studio has recently gone through some serious rewriting it seems. Whilst maintaining its somewhat unusual presentation, not bad once you get used to it, it offers a lot for a free download and some of the extra, paid for, bells and whistles aren't bad either. I have it and use it. Not that frequently it's true, but it isn't a bad sequencing package at all especially when you consider its price. Some of the ways of implementing things are a little quirky, i.e. not done the way Sonar or Cubase do them, but I really like the List View where everything worth seeing is displayed, including all the instrument allocations (Bank Select MSB, LSB, Program Change, SysEx etc.). Where I was a bit dubious, some years back, in recommending it, I'm not any more. But its interface may not suit those more used to Cakewalk and similar programs.

My oldish first mixer, a Mackie something or other, has a 'vocal eliminator' circuit in it. It's an electronic circuit that assumes that the vocal is recorded centre stage as two equal mono signals left and right. By electronically inverting one signal and adding it to the other the result should be zero. i.e. no voice (and anything else mixed exactly centre too).
Sometimes it works rather well ... sometimes it doesn't work at all. Sometimes the voice is gone but all the voice reverb remains ... strange!

I suspect the Korg is the same but obviously don't know for sure. I don't expect they've found some secret magic that removes all traces of the human voice. If they have I wish they'd make a ray gun with it in, then I could NOT listen to a particular neighbour with a voice that can etch glass!

As usual, just my 2d. (real money, that is!)
JohnG.

[weegeo]

Good morning Guy`s i trust you are all well.May i just pose a little question but am i right in understanding this hmm doe`s it not leave a space when you take out a vocal line and are you not at risk of taking out instruments that may well be on the same level
Just enquiring

weegeo-------- in the corner scratching his head lol lol

[JohnG]

As I said George "(and anything else mixed exactly centre too)." I should have added 'in the same frequency range', as these circuits usually have both low and high pass filters in them. But most songs will want the voice to stand out so will avoid, in most cases, having an instrument in the same range if it is doubling the vocal line.

Usually it's just the bass that's put centre stage too, but it's easy to put a high pass filter in circuit to make sure that remains unaffected. But essentially you're right, these circuits can cause some strange effects. Like if there's an instrumental between verses or choruses, recorded centrally, that is in the human voice frequency range, or close to it, that too can partially or completely disappear.

"Hey, where's the instrumental solo gone?"

I imagine if you could programme it manually to follow the vocal line and switch it out of circuit when no-one's singing it might work better. How's the software Melodyne has been working on coming along? They were developing some pretty sophisticated digital processing of audio when I last looked ... ages ago.

All the best,
JohnG.