'As Greg suggests the results are variable, but interesting. Can be done but as I say: loads of patience and a LOT of time required. Works alright for drums too but again: simple if it's just an (audio) drum track but not so simple if you're trying to pull apart a mix. But when you start working with audio that has multiple instruments and you have to coax Melodyne into finding the notes well it can become a new career (it's not as automatic as some videos on YouTube would have you believe)!!! LOL!!! If you have a bass (audio) track and that's the only instrument well then no problem. Except there was only ONE single (and simple) instrument (keyboard) in the audio track. There's one in particular where the chap extracts MIDI from an audio jingle. I've seen some of those YouTube videos on this. – If, however, you hold down the Alt key as you drag, the grid will be deactivated and you will be able to position the note freely.Greg has summed up the Mixcraft side of things.Īs somebody who has Melodyne Studio (and upgraded to Studio for this very purpose): it's not as easy as simply dragging an audio track onto a MIDI track (wish it were) not by any stretch of the imagination. When released, the note will snap to the nearest grid line. To change the position in time of a note: – Click in the middle of the corresponding blob and drag it to the left or right. – If it’s the right note but simply out of tune (“off key”), double-click on it and it will snap at once to the intended pitch. – If you hold down the Alt key as you drag, the grid will be deactivated and you will be able to move the note by smaller amounts (in steps of a cent). The note will move in steps of a semitone. To change the pitch of a note: – Click in the middle of the corresponding blob and drag it up or down. Using the Main Tool, you can edit notes individually or entire selections of notes simultaneously.

Larger Melodyne editions offer further tools with which you can alter, among other things, the vibrato, amplitude and formant spectrum of notes as well as their internal timing. In Melodyne essential, you work exclusively with Melodyne’s Main Tool, which can be used not only to change the pitch of notes but also their position in time and their duration as well as to split them. Please note, however, that if you do this, any editing of the track you may already have done using Melodyne will be lost! That is why, you should always make sure that the correct algorithm has been selected before you begin editing.

If after the transfer your audio material is not displayed the way you want, you can change the algorithm by selecting ‘Melodic’ or ‘Percussive’, as appropriate, from the Algorithm menu. When the Percussive algorithm is used, all the notes are displayed in a single horizontal line when the Melodic algorithm is used, on the other hand, the vertical position of the notes represents their pitch. Before you begin, however, there is one thing you must check:īased on its analysis of the material, Melodyne essential will have chosen to use either its Melodic or its Percussive algorithm.

These blobs represent the notes found in your recording, which you can select, drag and edit using the tool provided by Melodyne essential. After the transfer, Melodyne’s characteristic blobs will appear in the Melodyne window.

Melodyne audio to midi converter