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"This
clever little program from Greece is a rather advanced
sound-to-MIDI converter that not only understands pitch, but also
understands volume and brightness. And it's extremely simple to
use. Load up a WAV file, click Start and you're away. Chances
you'll have to fiddle with scary settings as Harmonic Threshold
and Time Resolution a few time before you get the result you're
looking for, but once you've got it sussed the quality is superb [Note:
Version 3.0 offers automatic settings].
As long as the samples you are using are clean enough (things like
delay and background effects tend to get in the way somewhat) the
MIDI playback is so close to the original sound that it is scary.
With cappella samples it's almost as if your computer is singing
to you. Really!
There are a few niggles though. The lack of sample previewing is a
pain in the butt [Note: Version 2.0 offers sample previewing]
and you can use only mono recordings, it would also be cool if you
could play the sample and the MIDI rendering at the same time to
compare them. Plus you've got to know the exact BPM of your sample
if you want to use the MIDI file created in your own compositions.
In general Digital Ear is very useful to have around"
by
Tim Cant
"[...]
So far, the best audio-to-MIDI conversion software I have found is
at: www.digital-ear.com. This software comes closest to
capturing the true expression found in singing, wind, string
and other continuously variable pitch instruments. And
that, to me, is where it's at! The product takes an original
approach to conversion in that it captures the initial note of
each unbroken phrase and uses MIDI pitch wheel data to capture the
rest of the note, slur, and vibrato elements for that phrase.
Marvelously, it also captures the continuous volume of the
performance on the MIDI sound volume control. It also has
the option of capturing the "brightness" of the
performance on any control # of your choosing, defaulting to #74
(MIDI Sound Brightness?) [...]"
Read the full article
here
by
Campbell Bouchet-Burnet
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