I’ve been searching the web quite extensively for a software that will convert, for example a .ram-file or a .mp3-file into a .midi-file, anyone know of such a freeware on the web?
thanks…amar.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe it’s possible to do that. If I’m right, that would explain why you’re not finding the software you’re looking for.
Converting sound to MIDI cannot be accomplished in a satisfactory manner at the present time. But… There are a lot of people working on it. Some very limited success has been achieved using very simple monophonic sound sources, but attempts to convert polyphonic sources have thus far pretty well crashed and burned 
Give it a few more years…
amar, try this link:
http://www.midi.ru/AudioToMidi/welcome.html
I’ve had this bookmarked for weeks and haven’t downloaded the software yet. Please report back and tell me if it works or not.
I gave this program a try this morning. It doesn’t handle polyphonics (more than one musical instrument playing) real well. It throws in a bunch of extra high pitched nonexistent notes. To turn the resultant midi file into usable sheet music would take far more editing than would make it worthwhile. Nice try though.
David
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/867/ has an article and discussion on this very topic! If you go though the discussions there are links to many programs that do the job, or at least purport to.
Digital Ear, Wav3Midi and TS-Ausio2Midi seem the best, but they’re time limited demos so you have to chop your file up into small chunks with something like GoldWave. I was trying to convert some lead guitar into midi files so I could work out the notes, but the results were disappointing at best. Some sounded absolutely nothing like the original.
Mastersound, have you been following the posts for software that slows down mp3’s and wave files? If the songs/tunes are played too fast for you to learn, you can stretch them without changing the pitch. I’m using a free plug-in on Winamp that works well for my needs.
tony, could you please give me the name of that plugin, sounds very usefull, thanks.
amar, follow this post…
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=2276&forum=1
There’s another program called ‘Transcribe’ that also got great reviews.
I use the Winamp plugin Chronotron to slow things down. It won’t work directly on a CD so you have to rip it first using something like Rip’n’Coder.
The process is: Rip CD with Rip’n’Coder to MP3; break MP3 into little chunks using Goldwave; convert MP3 to midi file using Digital Ear which seems the best of a bad lot; play midi file with Cakewalk Sonar to see what the notes are; give up on the entire process and work out melody using the good old fashioned blow or pick and try method. But isn’t the technology great!
Audiograbber will rip an entire file to mp3 or .wav
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/