Situation: A session player played some awesome guitar licks but he messed up some and is not available now.  I would like to recreate the parts.  Although I can usually listen to parts and score them, what he played is weird (chords with different notes bent different amounts, etc.)  I could analyze it but it would take a long time. I called in a player from a rock band I produce and after listening 30 seconds he said, "Sorry, man, but I will never get that."
 
I thought about upgrading Melodyne Assistant to the polyphonic version but am hesitant because I am in the middle of a project and cannot afford to risk blowing away my existing Melodyne files.  Celemony even cautioned me to wait.
 
So...any recommendations on an audio to MIDI tool that would save me some time analyzing what this guy played?  Even if the tool is not 100%, it's OK.  Getting 80% would help a lot.
 
The player is very creative but made a few mistakes and had a lot of single-coil buzz.  (If you are the ax-man in question and reading this: "Still love you, bro, but gotta fix it!  Release party is coming up soon.")

I honestly don't know if this will work, but it might be worth checking out...
Innovative Music Systems - IntelliScore
http://www.digifreq.com/d...deals.asp#IntelliScore

Scott

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Thanks, Scott.  I will check it out.

Here is a public Beta of a Guitar to Midi VST that might be useful http://www.jamorigin.com/midi-guitar/vst.html . If you install it, you need to make sure to set it up as a synth and the change generateEvents key from 0 to 1 in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\SONAR Producer\Cakewalk VST X64\Inventory entry for the MIDI Guitar.dll

To use it, drop it in the FX bin of the guitar track, click the enable MIDI output on MIDI Guitar in the synth rack, add a MIDI track, set the MIDI input to MIDI Guitar and record the MIDI output while playing the guitar track.

IF the mistakes he made are single notes with nothing else going on in the track at that point in time, you can split & isolate the note & fix it with V-Vocal

It will be very difficult to capture the exact same tonality with a different guitar and amp combination and a different player. Can you cut out the bad parts in the tracks you have, and cut and paste in some good parts from other takes? You might be able to EQ out most of the buzz or try R-Mix on it. And as Bristol_Jonesey said, you can fix bad notes with V-Vocal.

Konradh,
You could  make a copy of the guitar track in question and work with it in Melodyne's stand alone mode. It sounds like your considering the upgrade anyway and there would be no risk involved. The Groove 3 Melodyne tutorial has a chapter that pretty much walks you through what your after.

Rocky

I sure would like to hear these licks!  I use a program called transcribe from http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/download.html  to learn guitar parts and find it quite helpful. Not free but not bad... and not at all what you asked for, but it can help in figuring out what's going on.. but even when you know, executing a part is another matter...

daveny5


It will be very difficult to capture the exact same tonality with a different guitar and amp combination and a different player. Can you cut out the bad parts in the tracks you have, and cut and paste in some good parts from other takes? You might be able to EQ out most of the buzz or try R-Mix on it. And as Bristol_Jonesey said, you can fix bad notes with V-Vocal.

I agree with Dave as it will be very difficult. Also I don’t think that you would be very happy with a midi guitar sound, especially after a session player.
 
The free Audacity is excellent for taking out single coil buzz. You may want to try it.
Is there any way that you can upload a section or two of the problem parts? That way we could listen to them and get a better idea of what you are hearing.

http://www.knzaudio.com/index.php?midifier
 
http://www.widisoft.com/english/widi-audio-to-midi-vst.html