Logic Pro - Convert audio to MIDI for melodic lines - the bass

[@dananthony6258]

I love the little noises real instruments make. It keeps the human soul imo. Cool to see you have the option to remove these little sound if they’re not fitting a project.

[@ShuehliOng]

HI @dananthony6258 Thank you for your thoughts. You are quite right in remarking on the nuances of the "act of playing" breathing life into a musical performance. As we are dealing with transforming a life performance to MIDI notes in this tutorial, these nuances would confuse the translation algorithm; seeing them as musical notes, and hence need to be removed. The MIDI data provides the score notation, reflecting the life performance's note-accuracy. Score notation does not reflect the "noises", hence are not kept in the translation process. Thanks for dropping by and happy new year!

[@kidd1701]

Very well explained and demonstrated in the picture. Many thanks for that.

[@ShuehliOng]

Thank you so much for your kind words @kidd1701 And thanks for dropping by!

[@mjmf1430]

Great tip, thank you!

[@ShuehliOng]

Wonderful! Thanks for dropping by. :)

[@martinhmh7]

Great video. Straight to the point and very clear. Thanks

[@ShuehliOng]

Many thanks for your kind words and for dropping by!

[@annette9325]

I was just looking for how to use flex pitch, which was also answered. That was super helpful!

[@ShuehliOng]

So glad it was useful to you! Thanks so much for dropping by. :)

[@philcolman33]

Really interesting stuff, thanks for putting this video together. It’s amazing how Logic has all these cool features hidden inside every drawer.

[@ShuehliOng]

That's so true. Thanks for dropping by!

[@andrewcox4324]

Thank you for finally showing me how to do the conversion, now I can work on recording saxophone, and converting it to MIDI! 😃

[@ShuehliOng]

Glad I could help! Thanks for dropping by my channel. :D

[@daveking-sandbox9263]

good luck.

[@BarBasov]

Thank you.)

[@ShuehliOng]

Thanks for dropping by with your kind words!

[@gman9002]

Just bought logic today. 30 minutes in and I love this DAW. especially how I can use my macbook pro and ipad together

[@ShuehliOng]

That is wonderful! May you have many musical adventures with them. Thanks for dropping by!

[@nimeshweerasinghe2253]

Thanks 👍 🇱🇰

[@ShuehliOng]

You're most welcome!

[@createlovehappy]

"correcting" the pitch really sucks the life out of the performance doesn't it. I would keep the real bass part. The midi version sounds awkward and mechanical but i think it's a really useful technique for capturing the notes to maybe assign to another instrument or to build a chord using the note information. Will this work if the audio is a human voice?

[@ShuehliOng]

Hi @createlovehappy It is true that performance nuances are not translated to MIDI this way. That feat would take a few LP updates to make happen ;P But you are absolutely correct in suggesting that this technique could be useful for other reasons including the ones you described. An example I could offer might be that perhaps someone wishes to learn the baseline but can only read notes; unable to pick out the melody from just listening? In answer to your question, an audio to MIDI conversion method should work on the voice (a monophonic melodic line). If the recording is not pitched "comfortably", you will have much cleaning up of the pitch material before the audio to MIDI step. :) Thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts!

[@mann-vom-mond]

Great explained

[@ShuehliOng]

Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for dropping by!

[@mann-vom-mond]

@@ShuehliOng 🙂

[@samvox994]

Awesome

[@JeffyG]

Good video! But the clean up effort is greater than just playing the part again with a midi controller - or so I have found.

[@ShuehliOng]

You are absolutely right about playing it in as MIDI in the first place, that is assuming you are adept at doing this. There may be other reasons why one might want to extract MIDI data from an audio file. But this is a longer discussion. Thanks for dropping by!

[@shyamsarthi7129]

Aesome

[@ShuehliOng]

Thanks for dropping by!

[@amd5471]

It's so laborious compared to other DAW's. It really needs more development.

[@ShuehliOng]

Thanks for dropping by and offering your thoughts!

[@RossleMusic]

People should use their ears and not tools like this. We have enough pseudo "musicians". It makes me sad 😢

[@ShuehliOng]

@RossleMusic Thank you for your thoughts and for dropping by!

[@RossleMusic]

@@ShuehliOng Thanks for understanding of my position :)