Hi Tony,
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Originally Posted by tony mads usa
Can a vocal recording - midi format - be used to transcribe to Notation lead sheet?
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I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If you're talking about a MIDI file of a vocal lead line, then yes, that can be transcribed. If you're talking about an audio recording where you've used some other application to try and get a .mid file out of it, I doubt that the .mid file will be very good.
I say that, because believe me we've tested all the "audio to MIDI" applications out there that we're aware of, and none of them can give a very good .mid file without a LOT of work. It's not that these folks aren't smart or aren't in earnest about what they're doing. There are a lot of smart and good folks who are working on the problem. It's just that it's an extremely difficult task. Just think of the human voice: you have vibrato (which confuses the software about what should be the "real" note), there are "swoops" (which can get interpreted as extra notes or unwanted pitch bends), and just those two parameters alone can also heavily affect the rhythmic placement of the actual "real" note. Just those items for a single-voice melody line (ie, only one note at a time) are only a taste of the issues of getting an audio recording translated into a .mid file. Add in more instruments, and the issues go exponential
So, back to your question: it depends
ttfn,
Sherry