Re: Transcribing Loops.

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias)]

Kim informed:

>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.

Really? I need to know that!
Here in Brasil I have never seen it and there are about 100'000 musicians
needing it. 90% of all compositions happen on nylon guitar here (with them
crazy bossa nova chord sequences), and nobody has a MIDI nylon guitar
(there was only a PARADIS and a Godin on the market an both stopped?).


>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.

Better even record the played signal without loop on a channel because I
doubt that even a smart software can still handle 10 layers of guitar, but
maybe join 10 layers of analized scores. And you can tel the program, which
parts have been joined to form the loop. (Even MIDI can tell that to the
program, if it was prepared)

Matthias