• SONAR
  • Unable to Convert Wav Audio to MIDI
2017/01/16 22:42:12
PRAKASHXAVIER
Hi 
 
I'm using Sonar Professional. I create a soft synth track with SI Drummer. I have one track which is a kick drum wav track. 
I try to move the track over to the soft synth track and i get a message saying 'Audio Mix in Progress' but nothing gets converted on the Soft Synth track. I dont see any MIDI data on the soft synth track. 
 
Any help is appreciated 
2017/01/17 02:39:00
Sanderxpander
What happens if you leave the track where it is, select it and press CTRL+M? Melodyne should open.
2017/01/17 02:39:13
Sanderxpander
Double post, sorry.
2017/01/17 02:57:38
PRAKASHXAVIER
Thanks Sander. Much appreciated.
 
I've not tried Melodyne. I would consider myself a noobie at audio production. I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the tip. :) 
2017/01/17 10:09:04
Sanderxpander
I'm only asking because Sonar's audio to midi conversion relies on Melodyne. Dragging an audio clip to a midi track basically "runs it through" Melodyne. Perhaps you didn't install it properly?
2017/01/17 10:47:18
Cactus Music
I just did this last night. 
Insert a new midi track
Drag a bass audio track to the new midi track. 
Sonar message that Melodyn is converting to midi. 
I now have a midi track of my real bass playing.  This has got to be the easiest thing I've ever done in Sonar! 
Assigned the output to SI Bass, had to transpose up one octave. 
Took about a half hour to clean up the glitches , but I now have a midi track that is played on a real bass so it sounds the same more or less. 
I had never used this feature before until last night and I'm impressed. 
 
I've gotten pretty good over 30 years at playing bass parts into midi using a keyboard. But you can't play them the way you do when you are a real bass player.  I wish I had this 30 years ago.. it would have been a dream come true back then.  
2017/01/17 12:16:23
abacab
Cactus Music
I just did this last night. 
Insert a new midi track
Drag a bass audio track to the new midi track. 
Sonar message that Melodyn is converting to midi. 
I now have a midi track of my real bass playing.  This has got to be the easiest thing I've ever done in Sonar! 
Assigned the output to SI Bass, had to transpose up one octave. 
Took about a half hour to clean up the glitches , but I now have a midi track that is played on a real bass so it sounds the same more or less. 
I had never used this feature before until last night and I'm impressed. 
 
I've gotten pretty good over 30 years at playing bass parts into midi using a keyboard. But you can't play them the way you do when you are a real bass player.  I wish I had this 30 years ago.. it would have been a dream come true back then.  




That's a neat trick for sure.  I have some bass .wav loops from SmartLoops.  I tried this out with a few loops and it worked very well. The only cleanup I had to perform was to transpose the MIDI part +12 semitones (octave), to match the virtual bass plugin that I used.
2017/01/17 17:55:54
Gerry 1943
To convert audio to midi try the following:
A) open a track in TTS1
B) copy and paste the audio track you are trying to convert to the TTS1 track. This will probably be a piano sound.
C) open a new track for the instrument that you want....ie...bass....synth...brass....whatever
D) copy and paste the info from the TTS1 track to your new track.
 
This should have given you what you require.
 
Good luck.
Gerry
2017/01/17 18:57:35
Cactus Music
You don't need a Soft synth to make the conversion. 
You only need a empty midi track. 
Of course if you so choose the other method but I thought I'd keep it simple. 
Then you can point the midi track at any synth you like. 
Keeping midi tracks separate makes it easier to try different synths. 
They've made it dead simple and it works. 
As said once it converts:
Open in PRV so I can see the approximate note timing.
Process transpose +12 to match the range of SI Bass
Process Quantize and  whatch that the notes don't jump too far, listen. 
Play through making minor edits, mostly a lot of overlapping notes and the odd false trigger, but otherwise it matches the original 99%. 
I've been doing this all day converting some older backing tracks. The original real bass was played perfectly but the sound I had back then was terrible. I'm finding the SI Bass with a few tweaks sounds exactly like my Yamaha bass. The results are very good so far. It will also help even out the sound of the bass from song to song.
I'm also converting all my drums tracks to a custom kit I made by recording my own snare samples. 
2017/01/17 19:03:56
abacab
Cactus Music
 
Process transpose +12 to match the range of SI Bass




Hey Johnny!  If you are still using the SI Bass, which is cool, you may want to check out the free Ample Bass P II Lite ...  http://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=19

 
Good sound!
12
© 2026 APG vNext Commercial Version 5.1

Use My Existing Forum Account

Use My Social Media Account