[PlanetCCRMA] audio to midi?

[jonathan segel]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, jonathan segel wrote:
>
>> hey all, are there any audio to midi converters available on linux? i
>
> Audio-to-Midi conversion is a job that is close to impossible.  
> Trying it anyway is an interesting exercise for programmers and  
> technicians. But if you want to do musically useful things with it:  
> forget it. It's practically impossible to convert complex audio  
> material into MIDI. The best way (in my view the ONLY way) to  
> convert Audio to MIDI is the musicians way: Listen to the audio  
> track many times, reconstruct the score note by note using trained  
> ears, enter it in a sequencer, and save it as MIDI file.

actually that's not what i'm after. i'm after the imperfections that  
an impossible process spits out. much more interesting.
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