Transcribing solo paino recordings

[brookbend]

I was a supplier to the speech recognition industry back in the 80's. Yes a **** of a lot more $ was put into that, and for decades longer. It also has a contextual / meaning challenge. Another brutal problem to overcome - which they've done.

So you're saying for clean, solo instrument solo's Melodyne is very good and reproduces notation accurately? These kind of solos are exactly what I need.

Usually CHORDS IN THE RIGHT HAND ARE NOT PRESENT in these solos. Does this help the output accuracy? [I use the solos to find the right notes and lines so I can improvise better, esp in keys I struggle with. I could learn some solos on my own. But I'm not 25 yrs old anymore. Time has much greater value today].

Melodyne is $99. Small change for me, if it works. Can't think of any accessory features needed. So the upper end packages not needed.

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Originally Posted by brookbend

So you're saying for clean, solo instrument solo's Melodyne is very good and reproduces notation accurately? These kind of solos are exactly what I need.

Melodyne is an audio editor that will give you a MIDI output but does not give sheet music notation. It is not our product, but is developed by Celemony. Melodyne plus one of our products - which will take that .mid file and transcribe it to sheet music - may get you where you want to go

Usually CHORDS IN THE RIGHT HAND ARE NOT PRESENT in these solos. Does this help the output accuracy?

Chord notes won't make any difference to the transcription accuracy, but they do help when improvising over changes (I play bass in a big band, and ergo have to read sheets AND know the changes if I only get chord names).

Melodyne is $99. Small change for me, if it works. Can't think of any accessory features needed. So the upper end packages not needed.

I don't know if the "Melodyne Essential" contains the MIDI export - which is what you would need for sheet music - or not. I have an older version of the Melodyne Editor (they've only with the latest release offered smaller subsets of features.) I guess the best thing to do is give it a trial run and see if it does what you want.

Do let us know if it works for you. We get a lot of queries about getting sheet music from audio recordings, so we're always interested in the results that others get from various resources.

ttfn,
Sherry

[brookbend]

How do you get a Youtube video file into Melodyne? How do I download the video? I guess after downloading I import into Melodyne?

[brookbend]

How do you get a YouTube video into Melodyne?

Do you import a downloaded video file into Melodyne.... or play the video, and get its audio into Melodyne vis a vis the recorder's microphones... I own a Zoom H5 recorder.

[Sherry C]

Hi,

My version of Melodyne only opens .wav files - so you'd need to get a .wav audio file of whatever you're wanting to work with, unless the newer version accepts other formats.

I was going to suggest asking some questions on their User Forum, but I see that they have closed the user forum with the advent of their latest v4 release. You can check the website (they have a number of video tutorials) as well as just contact them to ask questions.

ttfn,
Sherry