Melodyne 5 Editor

DanM. wrote on 3/4/2022, 9:26 AM

I currently have Melodyne 5 Essential, which seems to work as a standalone or with my Acid Pro 10 Suite.

One of the main reasons I'm considering an upgrade to Melodyne 5 Editor is to have the polyphonic ability to convert audio files to Standard Midi Format files.

I can't seem to find some information I'm looking for about Melodyne 5 Editor and have some questions.

Can I use Any royalty free files I own to convert to SMF .mid files?

Would Melodyne 5 Editor be a better choice for audio to Midi file conversion than Melodyne 5 Assistant?

What file formats van be used to convert audio to Midi? MP3, WAV, Others?

How accurate Is Melodyne 5 Editor and is it one of the best audio to Midi converters?

Are there any other audio to Midi converters that I should consider?

Any information or comments about converting audio to Midi, or Melodyne programs are appreciated.

Comments

SP. wrote on 3/4/2022, 10:52 AM

@DanM. Try the demo version for yourself. https://www.celemony.com/en/trial Don't expect perfect conversion. In most cases a clean, dry (not much reverb) paino recording should give you the best results. Anything with a lot of effects or reverb will reduce the quality of the converted MIDI files. AnthemScore is also a very nice tool https://www.lunaverus.com/ but it also works the best with monophonic, dry piano recordings. Another alternative is RipX DeepAudio, but this is also very expensive like Melodyne. https://hitnmix.com/audio-manipulation/

DanM. wrote on 3/4/2022, 12:52 PM

Most of my recordings (purchased or mine) are pretty simple and mostly piano. Have you ever heard of Intelliscore? They have a couple versions, both polyphonic, one version is Ensemble for multi instrument files. It works in conjunction with Anvil Studio Checking into it along with the ones you mentioned, free trial version http://www.intelliscore.net/audio-to-midi-tutorials.html

DanM. wrote on 3/4/2022, 12:53 PM

Thanks

SP. wrote on 3/4/2022, 1:14 PM

@DanM. There are many different audio to midi converters out there, like you said Intelliscore or WIDI ( https://www.widisoft.com/english/mp3-midi-products.html ) or Dubler ( https://vochlea.com/products/dubler2 ). Programs like these came out since decades ago. But in my opinion, if it doesn't sound good with Melodyne most of the other converters will not convert it any better.

There are however, some interesting developments in AI based transcription, for example https://github.com/bytedance/piano_transcription which seems to work insanely good for piano but needs a beefy computer with a modern GPU. I didn't have time to test it, yet.

DanM. wrote on 3/4/2022, 1:31 PM

That's an insane amount of notes

SP. wrote on 3/4/2022, 1:37 PM

@DanM. Yeah, you can download 10 000 transcribed classical piano midis here https://github.com/bytedance/GiantMIDI-Piano/blob/master/disclaimer.md