You don't even have to play an instrument. You can use your voice to make a pseudo "trumpet" type sound and get pretty good results getting a melody or harmony part down.

Kenny I defiantly get what you are conveying. Its remarkable! Thank you for taking the time for doing this and showing what is possible. Of course you know this will put many a MIDI sequencer out of work! 

John
Kenny I defiantly get what you are conveying. Its remarkable! Thank you for taking the time for doing this and showing what is possible.

Hello John ,
 
Yes everything is pretty remarkable  , Joe's playing , SONAR SPlat  , Midi Guitar Beta and Strum Session 2 ...
Each individual element has brought a lot to the table with their own unique set of strengths .
As far as my own involvement goes ,  I'm happy i still hold the desire to be teachable and learn new things .
 

John
 Of course you know this will put many a MIDI sequencer out of work! 

Hey you might be right about that one John . I just checked my phones answering machine and all the messages that were on it were for Strum Session 2 ...no messages left for me
 
Have a good one , it was nice talking with you .
all the best ,
 
Kenny

Yea I used to do this, but had to open melodyne for the conversion. It came in handy for using vocoder to follow a vocal underneath a main vocal. Nice to see its so much more simplified now.

.....sounds really cool....though I'm using MC7.....love to do this if possible....

MC7 does not support ARA. If you purchased Melodyne, the included stand alone version could generate MIDI which may be imported into MC7. All current versions of SONAR support ARA. Melodyne Essential is included with Professional and Platinum.

ahhh. k.....thanks.

I've been trying this, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't (Sonar Professional, x64, Manchester).
 
For example, I earlier I took an analog bass synth clip, dragged it to a new MIDI track, and it worked.  It wasn't time-aligned, so I figured I forgot to shift-drag (as it wasn't a zero-aligned part), so I deleted the MIDI track and created a new one, did the same thing, and it came in as one long note. 
 
It goes through mixing down audio, creating regions, analyzing audio, and the piano roll view shows one B3 note the length of the clip.  Same result with a simple instrument track.  I have a feeling it's Melodyne crashing or erroring, I haven't tried rebooting but that's next.
 
Edit: reboot did nothing, update to Newburyport did nothing. When I apply Melodyne alone to that track now, it just comes in as one long note, so I think it's maybe the Essential version that can't handle the tonality in the synth part, which is single-note, but lots of overtones and filters.  And when I remove the RegionFX off of that clip, it's a flat clip now.  I repeated this for a synth track that's not as rich, and it worked just fine.