On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:01:45 +0100 Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 02 Sep 2006 12:49, David wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:34:44 -0700 (PDT) > > Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm not a programmer myself, but I had an idea. Would > > > it be possible (even in theory) to create an > > > application that could analyze just a regular .wav > > > song file and be able to "extract" the drum beats to a > > > midi file? > > > > Freecyle does this. See http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com > > Paul Brossier's Aubio library includes command-line programs called > aubioonset, aubionotes and aubiotrack that will do this in real time > from live audio input via JACK, using several different methods. > (Freecycle uses the Aubio library as well.) > > Sonic Visualiser can also do this using any extraction plugin written to > the Vamp plugin API. Aubio-based Vamp plugins are available too. The > Vamp SDK also includes a standalone command-line host for running > plugins directly on WAV files. > > http://aubio.piem.org/ > http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ > http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/vamp.html > > > Chris Impressive! I need to get about more :) -- Will J G