joden
I am particularly interested in the audio to midi to create drum parts from audio recordings (drums only) so I can use them in an arranger board I have to create some really funky beats.
I have been involved in software development since 1970, and since 1973 professionally. I majored in Computer Science back when that involved studying hardware down to the gate level and building software all the way down to the machine code level.
While I am impressed by a great many products -- and few products are more impressive than SONAR X3 in its richness of function and elegant user interface -- there are only two program that still amaze me every time I use them.
One is Band-in-a-box. I still can't get my head around how it does everything it does -- coming so close to the true human touch, and actually playing with more "human emotion" than most human musicians. That program has amazed me for over a decade and the amazement hasn't diminished one bit.
And now Melodyne joins BIAB on my list of completely amazing, unfathomable programs. Even if I didn't actually want to use any of its features, I would own that just for its value as a work of art. And then the $150 offer!? That took about 2 seconds to decide. The cats can eat sawdust for a week or two.
(OK. No angry letters from PETA, please. All 11 of our cats are well cared for and eat better than I do. And fortunately for them, almost all of them are music lovers.)