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@DanM. Try the demo version for yourself. Don't expect perfect conversion. In most cases a clean, dry (not much reverb) paino recording should give you the best results. Anything with a lot of effects or reverb will reduce the quality of the converted MIDI files. AnthemScore is also a very nice tool but it also works the best with monophonic, dry piano recordings. Another alternative is RipX DeepAudio, but this is also very expensive like Melodyne. -manipulation/
Most of my recordings (purchased or mine) are pretty simple and mostly piano. Have you ever heard of Intelliscore? They have a couple versions, both polyphonic, one version is Ensemble for multi instrument files. It works in conjunction with Anvil Studio Checking into it along with the ones you mentioned, free trial version -to-midi-tutorials.html
@DanM. There are many different audio to midi converters out there, like you said Intelliscore or WIDI ( -midi-products.html ) or Dubler ( ). Programs like these came out since decades ago. But in my opinion, if it doesn't sound good with Melodyne most of the other converters will not convert it any better.
There are however, some interesting developments in AI based transcription, for example _transcription which seems to work insanely good for piano but needs a beefy computer with a modern GPU. I didn't have time to test it, yet.
Anvil Studio is a multitrack MIDI and audio editing, digital audio workstation program that runs on Microsoft Windows. It is developed by Willow Software, based in Shoreline, Washington, U.S.A.
Anvil Studio consists of a free core program with optional add-ons.The free version is a fully functional MIDI editor/sequencer which loads and saves standard MIDI-formatted files, andallows individual tracks to be edited with a:
By default, Anvil Studio uses a General MIDI software synthesizer for playback, but also allows tracks to be assigned to VST instrument[2] or external MIDI devices.It processes audio using Core Audio, ASIO, DirectX or WDM or enabled drivers.[2]
Anvil Studio is used in University research,[3][4] is included in the curriculum for college classes in music creation[5][6][7][8][9][10] and video game design.,[11][12][13] and is recommended by the book 'The Game Makers Apprentice' for use in the creation of video games.[14]
Anvil Studio is recommended by librarians for displaying sheet music for widely available free classical music files.[15]It is used in library-hosted computer clubs for promoting 21st century literacy skills.[16][17][18]
Hi all, I am trying to create a medley of drum tracks for a performance using a keyboard. I have made the medley by importing midi files and routing the output through a midi bus of 16 tracks. The midi output of this plays fine through my keyboard, however this is off a desktop, and live, I would just like a midi file playing through the keyboard off a USB stick. I recorded the bus to a separate midi track and exported it, and it played fine in anvil studio. However, when I plugged the USB stick into the keyboard I got an error saying the data had not been loaded properly.
When you use MuseScore to create a MIDI file, the results are so-so. For instance, after I saved my Soler sonata remake as a MIDI file, the music played at a slower speed as a MIDI file than it did when played on MuseScore.
When MuseScore is used to edit a MIDI file, the results are rather glitchy. First of all, MuseScore treats every MIDI file as an import and messes things up. Second, I tried transposing a Scarlatti sonata from F major (the key in the MIDI) to F sharp major (the actual key). I managed to save the MIDI file with the correct key, but the music on the MIDI played kind of messy on some notes.
Time and time again I've heard from a few people here that MuseScore wasn't designed as a program that plays back music or a MIDI editor, but MIDI files are at least moderately popular, and given the potential of notating with MuseScore, I think it would serve as a great MIDI editor someday. Things can change. One of my various hobbies is developing computer games, and MuseScore seems like the right way to make music for them.
I suggest either that MuseScore gets MIDI creating/editing capabilities, or we come out with a separate program (MuseMIDI maybe, LOL?). And don't suggest that I switch to Anvil Studio, cause Anvil Studio sucks, at least for me...
The irony here is, MuseScore *started out* as a MIDI sequencer - MusE, which runs on Linux only. Long ago it was decided it would be better for the notation facility to be split off into its own program. I have no idea if it's even remotely possible to rejoin them, but I tend to doubt it. I also figure it was probably the right decision to have split them. Too much of what needs to be done in a notation program has no direct analogue in MIDI, and vice versa. There's probably a reason why not a single one of the other high end notation packages is worth a darn as a MIDI editor, and why not a single one of the high end MIDI editors is worth a darn as a notation program. 25 years ago, the state of the art in both fields was primitive enough that one could do both in the same program and not seem any worse than programs dedicated to one or the other, but I suspect those days are long gone.
Thanks, Marc. I understand where you're coming from. And I agree with you that the developers here need to improve MuseScore's MIDI capabilities. I never knew much about MuseScore's early history. Now, let's look toward the future...
Even though the release of MuseScore version 2.0 might be a little while away from now, I think it would be essential for that version to have more MIDI support and editing capabilities (i.e. editing the MIDI's tempo). What do you guys think of that?
Still it's possible to edit the "MIDI tempo", just create a tempo text, the resulting MIDI file should respect the tempo texts in your score. If it's not the case, it's a bug. Please give exact steps to reproduce it.
@lasconic Thank you for your input on tempo. However, I don't think I'll use any of the MIDI editors you provided. Two of them look too complicated, and the other one (Sekaiju) is in Japanese. But I'll give your technique a try.
@Thomas I understand what you might have to go through, being one of the main developers of MuseScore. Giving MuseScore better MIDI editing capabilities may be a very complicated process. However, my suggestion still stands for now. If you think (or know) that programming such a feature is impossible, please let me know, and I'll drop this feature request topic.
It would help if you could explain in more detail how you would imagine MIDI editing features working, given that somehow it has to integrate with the main notation aspect of the program. That is, what specifically would you want to edit that can't be edited as notation, how would you imagine doing it, how would you imagine that affecting the notation, etc.
You specifically mention tempo, but as lasconic says, it should already be the case that the tempo of the score automatically sets the tempo of the MIDI file, and changes to the tempo within the score should similarly change the tempo within the MIDI file. There is also already the ability to make notes play earlier or later than the notation suggests (right click, note properties). I can certainly imagine opportunities for some additional features in this area, and I don't think it's a question of it being impossible, if the feature integrates well with the notation. It's more a question of priorities. People use MuseScore for it's notation capabilities. Any time spent on MIDI features to satisfy the needs of a few is time that could have been spent on the features that all the rest of the users would be wanting. Someday, once MuseScorw has all notation features it's users could possibly want, then I wouldn't be surprised if attention turns to adding a couple more well-integrated, notation-centric MDI editing features. But there are years worth of notation features yet to add.
For right now, all I really need help with is some bug fixes. But here is the basic reason I want MuseScore to have advanced MIDI editing features: I like the idea of using a program that reads and writes MIDI files by means of showing music in a MIDI file as notes on a score, which is quite similar to the way Anvil Studio works.
I was just thinking that if MuseScore had advanced MIDI editing capabilities, it may be superior to Anvil Studio, which can be a pain in the butt when notating music a certain way. For example, I struggled to recreate a sonata by Antonio Soler since Anvil automatically inserts rests in undesired areas on its score, although I know MuseScore shouldn't have to be exactly like Anvil Studio.
As far as MuseScore version 2.0 goes, I still see adding MIDI editing features as a possibility, and maybe we should wait a little longer until version 2 is released. If adding greater MIDI capabilities alone would take way too long, however, I might as well let it go for now. What say you guys?
Feature freeze for 2.0 is coming up in a couple of weeks according to the schedule announced when 1.1 was released. So it seems that any significant new MIDI features are completely out of the question for 2.0. Absolutely no way would I want to see the very important 2.0 release delayed by several more months to implement some sort of pie-in-the-sky ideal MIDI editing capability that would be of no interest to most people who use MuseScore for its intended purpose.
I think you vastly underestimate the difference between what is representable in MIDI and what is representable in a score. They are just entirely different forms of representation. MIDI is not designed to store information about the appearance of a score. That's why programs that are MIDI editor first and foremost make lousy notation editors - MIDI just isn't suited for recording that sort of information. Any program that wants to take score editing seriously cannot use MIDI as its basic form of representation. So you're always going to be talking about "importing" from a MIDI file, and "exporting" when you're done. And information will be lost along the way. That's jut the nature of the thing.
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