I have audio files for a remix project, however I want to change the actual bass sound but keep the midi.
Is there a way on LIve 7 that I can make an audio into a midi?
extract groove is about the only thing you could do
there is a tutorial for it
Yeah i’ve seen that, but it’s on Live 8. Still not quite what I was looking for.
Nevermind 
You’d think someone would have come up with something like that though, could see it being very usefull for people.
Like there is a Piano pattern that i just couldn’t find the MIDI for ANYWHERE but at the same time, because it was a complicated piano piece, i just couldn’t re play it no matter how much I tried. Admittingly i’m not a pro keyboard / piano player but still, lol.
How about a program like Melodyne?
You can record the audio then convert it to midi then change the sound for the midi part, is that what you are trying to do?
[quote]sdg (8/3/2009)[hr]You can record the audio then convert it to midi then change the sound for the midi part, is that what you are trying to do?[/quote]
That sounds about like what i need to do, how do i convert to midi then?
Pipe it through Waves Stereo and you’ll get the midi notes
use an audio to midi enveloper. I hope you are on Windows…hopefully this works for you:
http://brb.notatruck.net/vst.html
heres how you hook it up in ableton live:
make sure that live is receiving midi from your virtual midi cable.
make an audio track and a midi track.
select your midi track and on the midi from: dropdown you select your audio track.
select the midi to: dropdown to your virtual midi cable, ie midi yoke 1. thats it!
all you have to do now is to pull up some audio clips on the audio track and play it, or make some track and route them to the audio to midi enveloper track, and set that track to monitor on.
select your cc numbers/channels, assign some midi mappings and go crazy.
some tips: try mapping both the shuffle and the bpm to your audio to midi envelope.
mapp channel mutes and send feedback to your envelope.
this this can modulate itself, so yeah, make a rack of it, and map it up. put an autofilter on before the audio to midi enveloper for extra candy.
Cheers sdg, a few things as i couldn’t get it to work…
“make sure that live is receiving midi from your virtual midi cable.”
I wasn’t sure what you meant by this.
“select your midi track and on the midi from: dropdown you select your audio track.”
In a midi channel it only allows me to select midi from any other midi channel, not any audio channels?
Ok so the rest confused me too, so what i did was open up another audio channel, selected ‘audio from’ the audio channel i want to convert to midi.
I put in the BRB audio to midi plug into the channel i’m looking to record into.
I then started recording. However as expected it only recorded another audio and gave me no midi.
What exactly are you trying to do? You have a piano midi part that you want to change the sounds on but keep the midi notes?
Yeah basically.
For this current remix i’m working on, i have an audio part of strings. However i don’t like the sound of the string so i want to convert the keyed pattern to Midi then use my own strings to replace.
perhaps this will work:
Download Audio To MIDI VST (PC) 1.10 Free trial - Polyphonic WIDI Audio To MIDI VST plugin.