Re: Polyphonic pitch detection

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Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
On 10/30/2010 02:56 PM, allcoms wrote:
Last I checked it couldn't do polyphony as I think you desire but
there is a Linux app called waon you may want to try that converts wav
to MIDI.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Paul Davis<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Jonathan Gazeley
<jonathan.gazeley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
On 10/30/2010 01:24 PM, fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The chords all sound like rather classical harmony to me.
You don't need a genius for this, it's the sort of thing
any church organist would be able to do instantly.

Well, I am a church organist, and have been for years.

I can read music and play it, but unfortunately I seem to lack the ability to listen to music and write it down if it's polyphonic. No problem if it's
monophonic.

i've seen a demo of Clam doing this sort of thing, but again, its
display is visual, not a list.

I've had a go with waon and it's done a far better job than anything else I've tried today, so thanks for the heads-up.

I had originally thought the relative simplicity of this music would let it be easily transcoded by software, but on second thought the pipe organ has lots of other strong harmonics in each note, and this seems to confuse pitch detection algorithms somewhat.

Maybe for the best results I will simply have to do it by hand (or get someone else to) :(

Best results I ever got (transcribing a complete polyphonic arrangement) was having a friend with perfect pitch do it. He was graduating from Juilliard at the time, so he brought a whole lot of musical training and skill to the task. ;-)

Another thought I had once (when trying some automatic note recognition software) was to split the original audio into narrower frequency bands (say an octave's worth per band), and run the resulting tracks through the note recognition software separately. I didn't try it out, though, because I didn't have the time.

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