wintermadness Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Anyone know where I can convert a wav or mp3 file to Midi or is that not possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hausdog Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 I've heard that programs exist but they suck. I never heard any names of programs, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 If one successfully made a program that could do this accurately, he would probably become a very rich person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 lolololol There is an xrns2mid but most of you here probably wouldn't find that very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starla Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Midi is essentially a collection of notes written in a way that a computer can understand and apply sound to. A normal midi played through say, winamp is going to take this collection of notes, pipe them through your sound cards basic soundfont, and you'll get the music you hear. There are no programs that can easily just translate a recording back into this interpretable midi format, some exist but they are shoddy at best. If you're looking to have a midi created of a song, i'd suggest commissioning a musician from the community. If it's video game related, I might check http://www.vgmusic.com to see if they already have a midi created. I know, tl;dr, long story short, midi is instruction sets and cannot be easily converted to with a one-click program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Pretty much what Starla said. A midi file is just a set of note commands for your sound card. This is why any convert-recorded-file-to-midi program will essentially just try to recognize the notes as they play and strip it down to a single note commands (from all tracks) and dump 'em into a single raw midi track. It's highly inaccurate and very, very messy. It's honestly not even worth the bother. Just try the VGM Archive. It's your best bet. If you can't find it there (make sure you try multiple systems if it was released on more than one), you can always request it on the forum boards. Requests don't always get done, but some do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermadness Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 No probs, thanks guys. I'll give the request a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 If one successfully made a program that could do this accurately, he would probably become a very rich person. http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0 Indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhsu Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I actually thought about possibly using that to convert MP3s to MIDI, but I remember there was doubt as to whether it could handle multiple instruments at a time. So yeah I guess we'll see when it comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 It can handle multiple instruments provided they are playing in different ranges - eg. if two instruments hit C4 it can't differentiate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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