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SJM · Posted - Wed Jun 04, 2003 4:55 am

Hello all,
Just thought I#8217;d share this with you#8230;
As I mentioned in a previous thread, I was looking into the possibility of converting one of the tracks, of a project I#8217;m working on, into MIDI so that I could change the instrument. I demo#8217;d a couple WAV-TO-MIDI programs but things didn#8217;t turn out very well. Along with the original melody came allot of other strange notes mixed . At that point I figure that, unless the original track was one note at a time and the tone was #8220;pure#8221; not layered, I couldn#8217;t get a good conversion.
As I was searching the net the other day, I stumbled upon a MIDI article written by a guy named Chris [http://www.HymnSite.com]. The article was actually a #8220;How to#8221; tutorial for a freeware MIDI editor called Jazz++. I decided to contact Chris and ask him if he had any recommendations for WAV-to-MIDI programs. He suggested that I try Composer [http://www.akoff.com/] ($29). I demo#8217;d the program on a track that, as I said earlier, confused programs of this type (even one that costs over $100). As it turned out the program did an impressive job. To take care of the additional notes that are created during the conversion, which were surprisingly few, the program provides a piano keyboard for filtering. During the conversion, the user can use this keyboard to restrict the range of notes converted. What surprised me the most about this program was that it converted multiple notes at a time (simple chords). One negative side, the newly created MIDI file was a fraction of a second shorter than the original. I just used the Stretch tool in CEP to bring it back to the same length. I also purchased a MIDI-To-WAV converter ($25), that was linked on that site [http://www.midi2wav.com/], and it worked flawlessly.
The bottom line#8230;I#8217;m now able to convert somewhat complex WAV files to MIDI, edit them, and then convert them back to WAV#8217;s. All for a total cost of just over $50.
Although I#8217;ve only tried these programs on a couple tracks, they seem to be just what I was looking for.

Thought you#8217;d like to know,
SJM

ozpeter · Location: Australia

Thanks for the feedback! BTW your post is a bit difficult to read (here at least) as you've probably prepared it offline in something other than a text editor. But that didn't detract from the interesting report.

- Ozpeter

SJM · Posted - Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:04 am

Ozpeter,
You're right. I wrote it on MS Word. The funny thing is, it looked OK when I previewed it on this forum!? I'll know better next time.

Sorry,
SJM

bonnder · Posted - Wed Jun 04, 2003 11:18 pm

Here are several other options to check out.

Transcribe! is not a Wav to MIDI converter. It simply shows you what frequencies/notes are in any given chord. This helps with the clean-up that is inevitable in Wav to MIDI translations.

Transcribe: http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.htm

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

WIDI: http://www.widisoft.com/

Intelliscore: http://www.intelliscore.net/

ozpeter · Location: Australia

BTW, using CEP2.x you should be able to convert midi to wave in the same way as the program you've mentioned, by using Insert > Midi from file in the multitrack, then recording the audio output of the midi track onto another track. With both programs, it's the soundcard which converts the midi sequence to audio. References have been made here before to midi rendering software, which I believe works rather differently - search for roland soundcanvas to find SteveG's recommendation.

- Ozpeter