However they don't cover it in the manual itself so I couldn't run the 'how to' or possibilities to ground. In their user Manual they state "Exporting MIDI is dealt with in separate tours".
They do, indeed, seem to allow export to MIDI. I went and spent some time on their website and was quite impressed with this software. There are other ways but the trial will let you know if it’s worth pursuing. One way: Melodyne Essential is bundled with Neutron 4 $199 and can be upgraded to Melodyne Studio for the $399 sale price. It’s not cheap $849 but there are many ways to get it for less. You can do a 30 day trial and see if it will work for you. Most DAWs have some pitch to MIDI functionality that may work for a simple file.įor most piano, I would check out pitch to MIDI in Melodyne Studio and not bother with anything else. The inexpensive ones can do single note melody only. How well they work depends on too many factors. Pitch to MIDI and pitch to note converters do exist. There was a pitch to note function in older versions of Finale but a) it never worked very well and b) it was for single lines only. I think maybe the Clavinova passes velocities that are too low with each recorded note.Mp3 has nothing to do with this. I am starting to think it is the Yamaha Clavinova that is at fault here because whether I use Music Maker 5, or Ableton, or A-N-Other recording app, I always have the same problem with the midi being way too low, with no way to boost or normalise it, when it's been written. I am aware that midi does not carry volume info as such it carries velocity info as part of each note. However I am perplexed as to the problem with recording MIDI. On listening back to the mastered CD in a player, the volume was much more reasonable and luckily did not distort the piano sound at all (that we could notice). In Audacity, the waves were showing up as very close to zero and the amplification obviously gave them a needed boost. I was able to get something at least partly passable by using Audacity to apply amplification to each wav before conversion to MP3. It seems that when I am playing back recorded midi from the Clavinova, it comes through at maybe 30% on the master output level indicator. I would likely either bump the gain a few db or normalize them especially if they were low in a normal mix. The pic here of the waves looks a bit weak to me: Your waves should look like this> notice the peaks are very close to the limits.and the wave is fully formed and not wimpy. I use this quite often.Īlso, after I export the file (finished) I open it in Wavepad (similar to audacity) where I trim the start & ends and also run the normalize again on the entire thing.again to bring it all up to that 0db peak level. This brings the highest level in the wave to 100% or 0db and everything else is kept below that. If the wave form does not reach more than say 50% and you have a good signal going in, you can select the normalize function on the wave track. there should be some head room at the top and bottom but not a huge amount. You want to try for somewhere in the middle. near the top & bottom, the levels are too high and you are clipping. If on the other hand the wave looks huge in the track and parts are flat. If the wave looks like a straight line, it's a good bet that the input levels were low. You can tell a great deal about the levels in that track view. You should be looking at the wave form in the MC track view.