KVR Audio

eddu · Post by **eddu** » Sun May 29, 2005 9:44 am

Musiciendoz does it (more or less) right, but it´s mono.

Any idea?

Yossarian · Post by **Yossarian** » Sun May 29, 2005 10:48 am

There are a number of apps that claim to do polyphonic audio to midi. I haven’t tried any of them so I can’t say how well they work, but they all have downloadable demos so you can try them out.

IntelliScore: www.intelliscore.net

TS-AudioToMIDI: www.mp3towav.org/TS%2DAudioToMIDI

Widi Recognition System: www.widisoft.com/english/mp3-midi-products.html

AKoff Music Composer: www.akoff.com/music-composer.html

AmazingMIDI (freeware): www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~araki/amazingmidi

/Yoss

advaya · Post by **advaya** » Sun May 29, 2005 10:53 am

Though in most instances (polyphonically speaking) you're going to be sorely disapointed with the results...

eddu · Post by **eddu** » Sun May 29, 2005 11:42 am

Most of the apps you mentioned are not VST, and i forgot to mention i was talking about a realtime conversion.

I just wonder if anyone tried them and could suggest the most accurate. Thanks.

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Sun May 29, 2005 12:27 pm

advaya wrote:Though in most instances (polyphonically speaking) you're going to be sorely disapointed with the results...

That's correct. These tools only work well on one carefully selected demo song. In real life they goof up majorly.

Stop the fruitless search for this Holy Grail. It's a frustrating journey.

feyshay · Post by **feyshay** » Sun May 29, 2005 12:29 pm

To advertise "polyphonic" is misadvertising. They just can't do it. They can do monophonic no problem. For example, you can hum a bass line and it'll turn it into a midi line. It is a fruitless search.

eddu · Post by **eddu** » Sun May 29, 2005 12:44 pm

I´ll be having to buy an AXON AX100 MKII..i can see...

useruseruser · Post by **useruseruser** » Sun May 29, 2005 2:29 pm

feyshay wrote:To advertise "polyphonic" is misadvertising. They just can't do it. They can do monophonic no problem. For example, you can hum a bass line and it'll turn it into a midi line. It is a fruitless search.

Exactly.
Did you ever try to recognize the single instruments inside a waterfall diagramm or an 3d FFT graph of polyphonic material?

Right. You wouldn't be able to extract all the frequency components exactly (merely approximative), even if you actually did write that entire song yourself!

BTW: There are even only very few such tools available, which actually do the job right on monophonic material...

Best polyphonic audio to midi VST plugin?