Audacity Audio To Midi
Priamo Gregory
Many keyboard have an analog output (for an amplifier or headphones) plus a USB connection for MIDI-only. You CAN record the analog output with a line-input on a soundcard or audio interface. (The mic input is a bad match.)
bei mir wird ein angez importiertes midi morgen k d wm .mid nicht wiedergegeben,
ich kapiere auch nicht, warum kein link zum Verstehen der parameter im manual steckt?
habe das eingeben mit e m-audio keyboard noch nicht versucht,
ich habe 6 7 audio editoren ausprobiert, am weitesten kam ich mit cubase demo aus einer keys zeitschrift.
dort konnte man auf der win98 SE version funktion vieles machen, als aber yamaha
cubase erwarb, war ein support ausgeschlossen, wohl, weil das
erste cubase ST VST ? mehrfach 8x abstrzte pro Tag bei nutzung
einer ISis soundkarte mit breakaot box
etliche editoren wie z B samplitude silver sind nach 4 wochen noch immer kryptisch,
ein dem audiobox
Ableton also does a good job with audio to midi conversion, but it has the same issues. You can usually get a decent idea of the bass part, and instruments that are up higher than the drums (strings?) But, from an mp3 all that midrange stuff is going to get mixed together.
I have an akai LPK25 and want to overdub on the audio tracks. I doubt that can be done. I know that I can generate tones in audacity and that must be midi. I want to use my keyboard instead of manually building up chords or sounterpoint.
I agree that it is not very useful at the moment, though there are a few situations where it can be useful. Probably the main use at present is if you are using audio and MIDI in another application, but you need to use some audio feature in Audacity that is not available in the other application. In this use case, being able to play a MIDI track can be a useful guide for timing the audio.
Go to -audio.com/Cable/ download VBCABLE_Driver_Pack43.zip
Unzip, install, then configure options for latency and sampling rate
Go to your Asio panel / select your sound card as input / select
VB-Audio Virtual Cable as output
In Audacity: select VB-Audio Virtual Cable as input and your soundcard as output
Go to
download file vstwr2.zip
unzip, drag vstwr2.dll in your MG2 plugins folder
load it in MG2 in any section you prefer (guitar, instrument or master fx)
click on show, choose name and location for wav recording / start recording
Then you can load your recorded wav files in Audacity
The best solution, as it records your untreated guitar, plus MG2 guitar fx added in fx track and midi data in another track.
By so doing, you can record again or modify only your raw guitar, or you can change MG2 guitar setting parameters or midi instrument data without having to record from scratch.
Go to and follow the instructions
Computer: Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop, 2.8 ghz, 2 gigs ram, Windows XP (sp2).
Sound card #1: Sigma Tel Audio (This is the native sound card and associated software inncluded with the computer.)
Sound card #2. E-MU 0404/USB (This is a small box w/ sound card and software. It has 2 mic ports, midi in/out, USB 2.0, etc. I got it to connect a studio mic [Rode NT-1A] to my computer for recording guitar and vocal.)
Midi controller: M-Audio Axiom 49 It has USB 1.1 and midi in/out. (This is a piano keyboard type midi controller.)
Midi controller software: Proteus X (This is a synth with sounds (sampler). It receives the signal from the midi keyboard and translate them into usable audio [analogue?] sounds. i.e. drums, bass guitar, pipe organ, etc, etc.)
Glad I read this post before buying a keyboard controller and a soft synth. I wanted to add some horns, strings, piano, etc. to some of my Audacity tracks, but looks like I would need more than just a keyboard controller and a soft synth to do this. To implement the solution posted here I would also have to buy a USB soundcard and externally powered speakers.
Is this a problem with Audacity in particular? Or will all multitrack programs (i.e. Cubase or Cakewalk) have the same problems listening to previously recorded tracks while trying to play and add new tracks from a keyboard controller/softsynth?
I have been using Mu-Lab to Render my VST tracks to wave forms. From there you can bring them into Audacity, which is a passable solution. You get the sound seasoned to taste and then export to wav file. The other advantage is that you can extract each track individually.
I just checked the specs for the MicroBrute, and it appears that the USB port is only for downloading updates and for MIDI. As steve says, you will also need a sound card or some kind of audio input device.
I am an intermediate musician with no recording-studio experience. For five years I've been using Garageband, Audacity, Qmidi, Aria Maestosa, and other simpler sequencer programs at home, and now I have Logic Pro 7 on a Mac. I do not want to connect any MIDI controllers to the computer or any other hardware. My only need for the program at the moment, is to re-touch MIDI files that I download for the Internet, and make them into accompaniment files that I can export to mp3 and then use, to play along with on my saxophone.
In Garageband I simply imported the MIDI file (via various means, including Dent de MIDI), and Garageband usually guessed automatically regarding which sounds to apply to each track. From there, within GB, I substituted other installed instruments, such as whatever came with the computer, and a few Jam Packs that I bought and installed separately, having verified that they would all work in Logic 7 also, eventually. I also have a few other free soundfonts downloaded and installed, which have been working fine in Garageband.
To be honest, to this day I do not know where my software instruments have come from in the other programs. I don't know if the computer came with a simple GM set, or if each program installed its own set, but generally they are sufficient for my needs, with a few exceptions, and that is why I installed two or three Jam Packs and other soundfonts. How the programs access them, I have never quite understood.
Anyway, today I have successfully opened a MIDI file in Logic, and got it to "play." Unfortunately no sounds were applied automatically (as they were in the other programs), so I hear nothing. Where do I go to get each track producing sound, or all of them at once? And, after I get my sound, how do I change those instruments to others already installed?
Yes, I have the printed manuals, but the instructions always seem more concerned with showing me how to connect MIDI controllers and appply sounds to those, than with how to get sound from a lone MIDI file when no hardware is connected.
Here's how I think you would do it in Logic. But before that, it's worth mentioning that Logic can load garageband files - so if GB does a good job of auto-assigning instruments you can load your MIDIs in garageband, save the project, and load it up into Logic for further tweaking.
Out of interest, seeing as you have GB, and already know how to get it to do what you want to do - why are you now wanting to use Logic to do the exact same thing, in a way that's more difficult and yet will sound exactly the same?
As for why I was finally ready to switch over, as I am sometimes limited as to how much time I can invest in the preparation of each MIDI file, I was doing minor preliminary editing in QMIDI, to see which files could be "good enough" without the extra work of tweaking in GB. From QMIDI I would then sometimes export the file to AIF, then open in Audacity in some cases, to boost the overall volume as an audio file, boost the bass, or convert the whole file to mp3.
Another issue is that GB has many limitations when printing out the score (such as printing ten bars of silence but not combining them into one to represent all ten), and it occurred to me that Logic probably did a much better job of that also.
First of all, I was formerly using an old version of GarageBand, but it did not allow for tempo changes, so I upgraded to GarageBand 08 and have since been using it extensively. ProTools LE came with my Mbox2, so I tried that briefly, but had the same problem regarding how to get sound out of a successfully-imported MIDI. I also came across a deal on Ableton Live, but I had the same issue.
As you might expect, LogicPro 7.2 does NOT open GB 08 files, and seems to think that they are newer Logic files. Apparently Logic 7.2 came out in 2006 and GB 08 in 2008, so it must be a question of the version. That means I will not be able to open any of the 200 projects that I have already done in GB. Still, I appreciate the suggestion.
In further answer to the question above, I need Logic because I am finally finding the limitations to GB. GB 08 does not export to MIDI, for example, but Logic does. Consequently, as I am continually re-touching MIDI files to use as accompaniment for my saxophone playing, and as I am often short on time, I often use the MIDI files as they are, with minor changes. In other words, I may edit the MIDI, and then re-save it, and use it as it. Oftentimes I am not aiming for studio quality, but just for decent playback quality for background music at weddings for example. Sometimes I just don't have the time to get hundreds of accompaniment tracks up to studio quality, so I use them as they are, and as I get the free time at home, I polish them little by little, for the next performance. (Of course, I exaggerate by saying "studio quality')
Sometimes these MIDIs come from the Internet, and they work for me as they are. Sometimes they have a bug in them, however, and I need to remove an entire track to solve the problem. For example, sometimes the violins are playing in the wrong key for some reason, or there is a bongo track with the rhythm all messed up, and rather than fix the problem, it is sometimes easier just to remove the track or mute it, re-save the MIDI and use it like that. Sometimes all I need to do is to raise the key, so that I can use the sheet music that I already have in another key, to play along. If I go through the trouble of importing the file into GarageBand and then re-touching it, the main disadvantage is that I have to spend over two hours polishing each track and re-adjusting the volume and so on, when it would have been so much simpler with a MIDI editor capable of making the minor changes. Moreover, in GB I still cannot export it to MIDI, but only to audio, which means I can never go back to MIDI again for that song, after all that editing.
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