Program to convert sound to staff music?
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You just have to know what you look for. Googling audio to midi brings up this page that appears to give a short explanation of the problems, and links to several software packages that claim to do this:
http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/audio2midi.html
These pages talk about converting to MIDI, but most any sheet-music editing program can read in MIDI files and display them as sheet music with no poblem.
http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/audio2midi.html
These pages talk about converting to MIDI, but most any sheet-music editing program can read in MIDI files and display them as sheet music with no poblem.
Melodies to Sheet Music
Try the following site. http://www.freebyte.com/music/#free_notation
They have a wealth of information about programs like Music Master Works, ($34.95), Midi Notate ($49.95), Finale Songwriter ($49.95) Finale Allegro ($199) Finale ($600) and Sibilieus ($600) as well as information on available sequencers, sythesizers, sound recorders and educational music software.
I don't know if they're All Inclusive, but they should give you a very good start towards finding what will fill your needs.
JRH
P.S. You might also check out the "Best Music Software" thread started by Nolita down below. It covers much of the same territory including some programs not included in the site I mentioned.
Try the following site. http://www.freebyte.com/music/#free_notation
They have a wealth of information about programs like Music Master Works, ($34.95), Midi Notate ($49.95), Finale Songwriter ($49.95) Finale Allegro ($199) Finale ($600) and Sibilieus ($600) as well as information on available sequencers, sythesizers, sound recorders and educational music software.
I don't know if they're All Inclusive, but they should give you a very good start towards finding what will fill your needs.
JRH
P.S. You might also check out the "Best Music Software" thread started by Nolita down below. It covers much of the same territory including some programs not included in the site I mentioned.
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You're asking a lot, really. Yes, it can be done, but that's like me telling you I could automatically scan a bunch of mildewed handwritten pages into Word files -- it can be done, & will take lots&lots of effort to straighten out.
Sit down with a decent tuner, & try to sing a simple melody line that hits a note correctly every time. Unless you're a serious pro, you cannot do it more than one not in (say) five, & in fact sometimes the mic will pick up on an over- or undertone rather than the fundamental. And that doesn't even begin to take background noise into it.
Now turn on the TV, & a radio, get your neighbor to mow his lawn, wait until the refrigerator kicks in, & try the experiment again. That's what automatically parsing a piece of recorded music is like.
The best software for parsing audio is Celemony Melodyne. Not perfect, not cheap, not one-click -- but pretty darned good. Now they have various trimmed-down & demo versions, so prepare yourself for a learning curve & have fun: Melodyne downloads
Sit down with a decent tuner, & try to sing a simple melody line that hits a note correctly every time. Unless you're a serious pro, you cannot do it more than one not in (say) five, & in fact sometimes the mic will pick up on an over- or undertone rather than the fundamental. And that doesn't even begin to take background noise into it.
Now turn on the TV, & a radio, get your neighbor to mow his lawn, wait until the refrigerator kicks in, & try the experiment again. That's what automatically parsing a piece of recorded music is like.
The best software for parsing audio is Celemony Melodyne. Not perfect, not cheap, not one-click -- but pretty darned good. Now they have various trimmed-down & demo versions, so prepare yourself for a learning curve & have fun: Melodyne downloads
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Is it really that hard? I can just sit down and hum a tune or play it on an instrument and save it as a file, right? WAV, etc.
Freeware programs I have, like Anvil Studios play files and show them as either piano roll or staff...so it doesn't seem like a technological challenge to do this.
Printing out seems like the hard part, but I am getting the impression that's been handled, too.
BTW, I scanned the links ben and JRH posted before and was knocked out. I should be pissed because you guys cost me about six hours of my work day poking around those places and their links.
Wow, cool! Thanks again.
Freeware programs I have, like Anvil Studios play files and show them as either piano roll or staff...so it doesn't seem like a technological challenge to do this.
Printing out seems like the hard part, but I am getting the impression that's been handled, too.
BTW, I scanned the links ben and JRH posted before and was knocked out. I should be pissed because you guys cost me about six hours of my work day poking around those places and their links.
Wow, cool! Thanks again.