This Melodyne ARA looks really interesting. Do you know if there is a vid on it?

http://blog.cakewalk.com/easy-audio-to-midi/ 
 
I suppose you could record voice and convert it to any midi instrument... or what ever instrument you play the convert it to midi and to any other instrument. Very cool... I want a vid.
 
J

I just recorded live drums on a jazz tune.  I needed a better kick so I gated the kick (which was recorded on its own track) and bounced to a new track.  I then applied Melodyne to it using the Percussive analytic.  Then, I created a new instrument track for Addictive Drums and then dragged the Melodyne track right onto it.  
 
Voila!  I now had a midi kick drum parft.  I then transposed the kick notes to the C1 kick and seasoned to taste.  The original kick is now replaced by a Sonar bass drum and I can edit at will.  
 
This whole process took 3 minutes at best.  How cool is that?
 
Rimshot
 

I have found that the audio to MIDI functionality is a little hit and miss, even on monophonic lines. A few days ago I recorded a series of very clean 16th notes on guitar (using a pick) and ran it through Melodyne and onto a MIDI track. It made a real pig's ear of the timing....some of the notes were tied. 

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I recently recorded the "Head" of a jazz piece on electric guitar.  With the ARA integration I simply dragged the clip onto a Lounge Lizard track and voila, Fender Rhodes doubling the part.  It was almost instantaneous.  I had to correct one note, caused by a string bend, I think. 
 
That's different from the way people have been using Melodyne pre-ARA, isn't it?

There is no import/export.  If you want to use Melodyne, you select an area and choose Melodyne from the menu.  It then opens in Melodyne in the Multidock.
 
With the audio to MIDI thing, there is no need to even access Melodyne yourself.  Drag a perfectly normal Audio clip to a MIDI track and it converts it to a normal MIDI clip.  Simples.

jb101
There is no import/export.  If you want to use Melodyne, you select an area and choose Melodyne from the menu.  It then opens in Melodyne in the Multidock.
 
With the audio to MIDI thing, there is no need to even access Melodyne yourself.  Drag a perfectly normal Audio clip to a MIDI track and it converts it to a normal MIDI clip.  Simples.

It's not that simples, especially if you're using the polyphonic algorithm in Editor. In most cases you have to do some work in Melodyne first before dragging the clip. It gets confused very easily by two notes an octave apart and it sometimes mistakes overtones for notes. So you may find yourself having to go through the audio note by note and fixing what it's gotten wrong. 

sharke

jb101
There is no import/export.  If you want to use Melodyne, you select an area and choose Melodyne from the menu.  It then opens in Melodyne in the Multidock.
 
With the audio to MIDI thing, there is no need to even access Melodyne yourself.  Drag a perfectly normal Audio clip to a MIDI track and it converts it to a normal MIDI clip.  Simples.

It's not that simples, especially if you're using the polyphonic algorithm in Editor. In most cases you have to do some work in Melodyne first before dragging the clip. It gets confused very easily by two notes an octave apart and it sometimes mistakes overtones for notes. So you may find yourself having to go through the audio note by note and fixing what it's gotten wrong. 

This thread was about the Melodyne ARA integration, I thought, not Melodyne.
 
The above example that I gave was mostly monophonic, although there were some double stops at the end.  It was a clean electric guitar track.  Only one note (a string bend) needed correcting.  Hence, simples..  I assumed Mike was familiar with Melodyne and it's capabilities, but was enquiring about it's ARA integration into Sonar.
 
The first time I used Melodyne Editor on polyphonic material I was initially disappointed in it's detection, and at the amount of "cleaning up" needed.  It quickly dawned on me that it was very little when one considered what Melodyne was doing.  As I practiced (and read the manual), I became very swift at "cleaning up" the note detection, and am still amazed at what it can do.  My first attempt corrected a single wrong note in a busy classical guitar piece that is un-noticeable.  It took a little work, but probably less than re-recording it.
 
It can take a little work, but just think what it is doing.
 
Back to the OP.  Regardless of one's thoughts on Melodyne's capabilities (and most think it is pretty amazing), it's ARA integration in Sonar is fantastic.
 
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