Converting Audio to Midi (Drums)

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Does anyone have a good process for converting Audio tracks to Midi?

I am using Nuendo 2 with Drum Kit From Hell Superior.

I also have Drumagog but for this situation I am not looking to just replace drum hits.

I am looking to convert recorded Drum Tracks to Midi to use with Drum Kit From Hell Superior.

That way I can make sure all of the drum hits are in time and move things around as needed.

I have seen some steps before where you use a duplicate track to detect silence and create hit points. Im just not sure where to go from there.
 
Can you even create midi from audio? Midi isn't an audio output it's an electrical signal. What you can do is get a front loading sampler and trigger .wav hits from that.
 
You can, but the midi result is generally never quite what you want.

There are some standalones that do it.. e.g. TS-Audiotomidi - http://audioto.com/eng/products.htm

Reaper can also do it to an extent using the Reatune plugin.

As I say, the output is rarely what you really want and will need editing.

If you want an alternative approach to edit your drums, pipelineaudio has some nice videos here showing how you would do it in Reaper. I'm not familiar enough with Nuendo to say whether you can do exactly the same thing, but it may provide some ideas .. the videos are here (look at numbers 9 and 10) .. http://www.reaper.fm/~pipeline/REAPERVideos/basics/
 
Make your own samples from DFH and use those samples with Drumagog
 
I didn't realize at first that Drumagog can do midi notes.

I kept thinking people were refering it as a drum replacer only.

I will look into that and give it a shot.
 
the easiest way: get some piezo buzzer from radioshack. item number 273-059 or 066 are best suited if i remember right...

http://www.radioshack.com/product/i...&sr=1&origkw=piezo&kw=piezo&parentPage=search

stick hem with doctape to the drum heads, solder the leds to 1/4 jack or anything your sound card supports (assuming you have multiple inputs on your sound card, or else you need a drum brain and midi input)

you now have drum triggers that work really good, use em with drumagog, succes assured.

even those you'll do the job perfectly

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/PE-53/search/15MM_PIEZO_DISC_.html
 
forgot to say, the bigger the piezo, the better. as long as it's this kind
 
joswil44 said:
Does anyone have a good process for converting Audio tracks to Midi?

I am using Nuendo 2 with Drum Kit From Hell Superior.

I also have Drumagog but for this situation I am not looking to just replace drum hits.

I am looking to convert recorded Drum Tracks to Midi to use with Drum Kit From Hell Superior.

That way I can make sure all of the drum hits are in time and move things around as needed.

I have seen some steps before where you use a duplicate track to detect silence and create hit points. Im just not sure where to go from there.
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Drumagog will create midi if you have the pro version, the regular version won't do it.
I do this myself sometimes using a built in feature in Sonar for creating midi from audio transients. I'm not sure of any third party software, but I bet it's out there somewhere.
 
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