I found a more robust program for converting audio to MIDI

[Lamp]

Y'all probably know about the bear file converter which works quite well but I was interested in alternative methods and after searching I found a program called AmazingMIDI.

You input a sound file and a tone file and then you can transcribe it, and it has some options and filters that you can adjust

At first I wasn't sure what to put in as the tone file so I put in the same file as the one to be transcribed, but the result was a lame crappy output

Then I tried one of the sample tone files and the result was better. Using the sine wave sample resulted in a very dense stream of notes that carried the original song decently. Different tone samples result in very different outputs. On one test I used an MPP key and the result was something that seemed more appropriate for playing in MPP.

While the bear file converter is still perhaps better, this program is far more robust and I was able to make some interesting variations of the same song. One's a very dense stream of notes, another is thin enough to play in MPP lobby but still sounds fairly well (and has kinda a neat effect with the voice).

Note, it's only for Windows but works flawlessly in Wine. It also only uses wav files.