dubdisciple
I have successfully used this feature in the studio for tasks as simple as creating a midi track from an audio kick track so that I could reinforce it to converting a rappers sung chorus to notes so I could layer a synth melody under him singing.  Highly useful and easy to implement feature.

wow, now this is creative approach - thanks for sharing, I maybe try something similar with the new project!

jb101

sharke
Yeah it's not just a matter of dragging an audio clip onto a MIDI track, you have to make it a Melodyne clip first.

No, you do not need to make it a Melodyne clip first.  An ordinary wave clip will work.  Everything else is taken care of "under the hood".
 
If the results aren't too good, and editing the MIDI doesn't help, then maybe open it in melodyne and clean up the detected notes.

Ok I sort of got conflicting info here. Just to be clear this has to be an audio file taken from the browser. You just can't record a sound directly into your project and then just grab it and drop it onto a midi track (I tried this and it did not work). You would need to bounce it down onto your computer somewhere/anywhere and then drag this newly bounced audio file through the browser and drop it onto a midi track. Right?

bandso
 
Ok I sort of got conflicting info here.

Yes your getting conflicting info.
 
 

bandso
 
Just to be clear this has to be an audio file taken from the browser. You just can't record a sound directly into your project and then just grab it and drop it onto a midi track (I tried this and it did not work). You would need to bounce it down onto your computer somewhere/anywhere and then drag this newly bounced audio file through the browser and drop it onto a midi track. Right?

 
No you don't have to do all that.
 
Just drag a "mono" audio clip onto a midi track and it gets converted.