Which product gets me audio to midi?

Happily using sonar 8.5 studio for years.   How much to upgrade to a version of Cake that gets me audio to midi conversion?
 
(I use the midi side of Cake, mainly.  But audio to midi sounds very cool.)
 
Thnks,
 
JG

Karyn
The simplest option is Melodyne available in Sonar Professional.

But then you have to upgrade your Melodyne. I do believe Sonar has it's own audio to midi conversion.

Audio snap can too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpGSZjwIvmQ
 
 

Vvocal can as well but not sure it was in 8.5

Sonar 3? I don't think it had audio snap or VVocal or Melodyne. 

Attempts to convert polyphonic material to midi are likely to yield less tha ndesirable results.  For monophonic material the version of melodyne included with Sonar is a good option, especially how easy it is to give it a test spin.  dropping a monophonic audio clip on a midi instrument track will generate midi data

No trials, it seems.  i'll have to inquire about editor or assistant, prior to purchase.

Celemony supplies their trial version http://www.celemony.com/en/trial. I do not believe it was included with the X3 trial.

And also be aware that audio-to-MIDI is an imprecise science at best. As with any kind of translation, the simpler the source material, the more successful the translation.

Anderton
And also be aware that audio-to-MIDI is an imprecise science at best. As with any kind of translation, the simpler the source material, the more successful the translation.

^^ This should be emphasised. I think it's more like a rule that people have very unrealistic expectations of audio-to-MIDI, no matter what software or DAW they're using.

I'm seeing a different sort of issue and approach here: something that was done in Cubase--which I had a copy of about ten years ago--where audio peaks or "hitpoints" could be aligned with a midi file essentially by adjusting the TEMPO map.   I think there's something more or less equivalent in most midi software, these days.  
 
Not the same thing, btw, as the function in 8.5 which allows you to "tap" in the tempo in a way that actually modifies the tempo map from beat to beat.   (Useful, but not pinpoint accurate.)  The old "hitpoint" in Cubase approach allowed a dead-on accurate beat by beat manual adjustment of a midi tempo track to fit an audio track.
 
Probably old ground, here, but does Cakewalk now have an equivalent?  (I think the modern equivalent in Cubase is called "Warptool" or "Audio Warp" or something along those lines.)
 
 
 

I've tried audiosnap in 8.5.   I couldn't get it to do FINE adjustments in midi tempo to make a midi file exactly and perfectly correspond to every beat, and subbeat (audio peak) of pre-existing audio file.  
 
I will research audiosnap one more time though.  May be I'm missing something.  i think the problem is that audiosnap isn't designed to do PRECISION MANUAL matching of every audio file "beat" to its corresponding "beat" or "note" in a midi file.  

I'm not thinking audio to midi, the whole thing.   No.  Just something that will allow me to make very precise tempo adjustments to the midi file so that it "maps" exactly the audio file.  I'm having a feeling that only cubase sx, which is ANCIENT, does it.   Here's exactly what I'm referring to:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOzRDwP6vZE
 
But I guess there might be an equivalent in the latest Sonar?   Maybe?   Maybe not!