Music to Sheet Music Converter
I play the violin and some of the music that I want to play is not available in sheet music. Has anyone ever come across a computer program that converts regular music into readable sheet music?
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. A violin tablature editor or guitar tablature editor may be helpful. I don't remember any that accept WAV input, but several will take MIDI.
May 20, 2008. 11:08 PMRishnai
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I would say it would be a heck of a lot quicker to try and do it by ear. If you're like me and have a horrible ear, though, it would probably save a lot of time (since the track you want is just one note at a time on one instrument) to use a chromatic digital tuner--the kind that tells you what note it hears. These get really confused if you try and use them for the notes in, say, a guitar solo, because of all the other instruments, but do great for single-instrument recordings.
Jan 6, 2008. 6:11 PMgmoon
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How do you define "regular music?"
There are certainly programs that convert MIDI files to sheet music ( Lilypond. )
If you mean audio -> sheet music, that's much more complicated...There are some wav-to-MIDI converters. Most will do at best a fair job if it's a single-noted instrument, and a poor one if it's chorded or multiple instruments on the track...
There are certainly programs that convert MIDI files to sheet music ( Lilypond. )
If you mean audio -> sheet music, that's much more complicated...There are some wav-to-MIDI converters. Most will do at best a fair job if it's a single-noted instrument, and a poor one if it's chorded or multiple instruments on the track...
Jan 7, 2008. 6:33 AMSedgewick17 (author)
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I want to convert the sound of a single violin playing into sheet music, and it does not need to be perfect just close enough the where I can read every third note.
Jan 7, 2008. 7:47 AMgmoon
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There are some commercial products, for sure--I know Cakewalk's Sonar has a module for it.
From a freeware POV, on the 'MIDI sofware' page of the Linux Sound pages, there are a few: FANR, wave2mid and WAON (which looks like the only one currently in development.)
I believe I've tried them all at one time or another (although at least one wouldn't compile for me; I forget which one.) They work in an imperfect fashion at best... All output needed editing in a MIDI sequencer.
Here's one for Windows I've never tried: AmazingMidi. You'll find others if you search for 'wav to midi'.
From a freeware POV, on the 'MIDI sofware' page of the Linux Sound pages, there are a few: FANR, wave2mid and WAON (which looks like the only one currently in development.)
I believe I've tried them all at one time or another (although at least one wouldn't compile for me; I forget which one.) They work in an imperfect fashion at best... All output needed editing in a MIDI sequencer.
Here's one for Windows I've never tried: AmazingMidi. You'll find others if you search for 'wav to midi'.
Jan 6, 2008. 6:14 PMjtobako
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I've seen some that converts midi files into sheet music, but nothing that converts sound.
Well, that would make a few extra steps in the process but brings into reach, since there are ways to convert analog to digital and then to Midi or whatever.
Jan 6, 2008. 6:14 PMPoisonedV
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Ear transcription. It's nearly impossible to convert real music to sheet music. The tones can vary widely, by being slightly out of tune, ambient scratching, etc.
Jan 7, 2008. 6:27 AMSedgewick17 (author)
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I just want it to come close. Then I can adjust the sound by ear.
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