Re: Transcribing Loops.

[kflint@annihilist.com (Kim Flint)]

>I'm interested in scoring/transcribing loops I create.  I have an 
>Echoplex.
>
>So three questions:
>1)  Is there software out there that could understand a midi dump of a 
>loop?

I think there is commercial software that can take digital audio and
transcribe it. I have no idea how well it works, or even who makes it. I
just remember seeing a review once. There has been research on this subject
for a long time in the academic community, I'm sure there are a variety of
methods to do it.

The echoplex wasn't really designed with the idea that people would be
transferring the digital audio to their computers and editing it or
whatever. (that sort of thing became a lot more popular in the years since
the design was done)  You can do it, but you have to put it through some
filtering and a sample rate conversion first. Rather than messing around
with midi sample dump and various dsp filters, I think it would be a lot
easier for you to just record the audio out directly to hard disk and then
run it through the transcribing software.

kim

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