Hi, everybody.
This is a complete newbie question. Forgive me. This forum looks amazing, though, so I'm sure someone here knows the answer.
I write piano solo covers of existing songs.
I love doing this.
Sometimes, however, it's hard to hear the underlying music. This is because the piece is using a lot of reverb, or there's just a lot going on at once, or a critical note is covered up by another instrument.
I'm looking for a tool which can help me by actually identifying he notes of a piece as precisely as possible. I want to just be able to import a sound file, and have it either display the notes or produce a MIDI of them. It needs to be precise, though.
Ideally, it needs to be able to pick apart complex chords, even when they're doused in reverb, and with many, many instruments playing at the same time (such as is the case with orchestral music).
Someone mentioned Melodyne. Can Melodyne do this? I looked at their website, and it doesn't really answer whether or not it can do this, and their "support" department seems to relate only to actual errors, not so much questions like this. Also, that program is very, very expensive, and does much more than I need it to. If it's the only option, the I'm interested, but all I really need is to identify the notes.
Can anyone recommend a program that can ACCURATELY identify the notes being played in a complex piece of music? Perhaps it could produce either a MIDI output, a visual graph of some kind (notes on the stave, for example), or some other way of identifying the note being played?
Thank you so much for your help.
Programs to Identify Notes Being Played
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- KVRian
- 880 posts since 26 Oct, 2011
Melodyne is your only option, because it can process polyphonic material. It's also not super great for the purpose (vs. reading the score) and it's tedious to try and interpret whatever Melodyne is saying occasionally.
The whole thing is very crude way of going about if your ears aren't enough, but pretty much your only alternative assuming you do not have access to the score files
The whole thing is very crude way of going about if your ears aren't enough, but pretty much your only alternative assuming you do not have access to the score files