Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
Another possibility: Adjust Beats to transients, then use the long-MIDI-note plus scissors and beat grid to create a series of grid-length notes located on those beats. Throw out the ones you don't want.
I guess there's just not an easy way to do it, Robert.
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I guess there's just not an easy way to do it, Robert.
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
Shooshie wrote:Another possibility: Adjust Beats to transients, then use the long-MIDI-note plus scissors and beat grid to create a series of grid-length notes located on those beats. Throw out the ones you don't want.
I guess there's just not an easy way to do it, Robert.
Shooshie
Hmm... using the beat grid. I didn't think of incorporating that yet.
I will find a relatively easy way of doing this!
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
As I recall you can do this with DP as well? I think you go into the Sequence Editor, choose the Pitch display and then there's a way to select the superimposed notes and drag them to an audio track. As I recall, anyway. Never tried it.David Polich wrote:But...you can convert audio to MIDI data, using Melodyne. Process the track with Melodyne. Afterwards, you can export the processed track as MIDI. It works great.
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
You can copy/paste them to a MIDI track. Or maybe drag & drop. Seems like I tried it once just as a proof of concept, and it worked. (don't remember whether it was d&d or c&p)James Steele wrote:As I recall you can do this with DP as well? I think you go into the Sequence Editor, choose the Pitch display and then there's a way to select the superimposed notes and drag them to an audio track. As I recall, anyway. Never tried it.David Polich wrote:But...you can convert audio to MIDI data, using Melodyne. Process the track with Melodyne. Afterwards, you can export the processed track as MIDI. It works great.
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
You can copy PureDSP pitch data to a MIDI track easily.
The issue is that the pitch detection doesn't work on percussive material very well. I've found somewhat of a workaround, but it's clunky and I'm working on it.
The issue is that the pitch detection doesn't work on percussive material very well. I've found somewhat of a workaround, but it's clunky and I'm working on it.
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Re: Beats to MIDI, is it possible?
Just an update, waiting on a bug or two to get fixed before doing a tutorial on this. The best method that I've found so far involves 2 bugs that are in all 9.x versions.
So for now, back to fiddling with trigger plugins and automating individual notes.
So for now, back to fiddling with trigger plugins and automating individual notes.