From jackoverfull@gmail.com Thu Jan 26 09:45:12 2012
Subject:Re: OT: Audio to MIDI Converter?

Hi Fox,

sorry to write you this: on that topic I've tried basically every software that has been released 'til more or less one year ago, they all work very badly, works only for the simplests of things. you'll be much better off in relearning the songs by hear…

Il giorno 26/gen/2012, alle ore 18.38, jukefox ha scritto:

> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I have a question I really need to put to my panel of experts and you're "it!"
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> When I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver a couple of years ago, the movers packed some boxes right in the middle of four dual 18" bass bins. One of the boxes contained floppies of several dozen tunes I wrote and sequenced nearly 20-years ago. I wanted to access some of these files the other day and found that these discs are ALL corrupted, doubtless a result of traveling 1200 miles across country bouncing up and down in the back of a truck amid the magnetic fields of 8 humongous low-end transducers. Or maybe it's just that the diskettes are two decades old...either way, the result is the same.
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> Now, while I don't have recordings of all of this music, I DO have a few demos of some of the better stuff, some on cassette, some on 1/2" stereo master reels, some on 1/4" reels and more still in various forms of completion on cassette tapes. Despite the fact that these are magnetic media as well and were packed in the same general area, the audio does not seem to have deteriorated much in the few I've auditioned.
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> I would like to recover the original MIDI sequences without having to meticulously transcribe my tapes manually (literally thousands of hours of work), so I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with Audio-to-MIDI conversion and, if so, is there a converter available that really works, particularly in transcribing polyphonic parts by instrument and routing them to individual tracks.
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> Again, sorry for the OT (and the bandwidth of this fairly lengthy post). I am most appreciative of any help y'all may be able to offer.
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> Peace,
> Fox

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