![]() Bass guitar can be harder to process because there’s variation in dynamics and clarity, as well as finger/fret noise. Bass is typically easy to convert with the ‘Convert Melody to MIDI’ command, because for the most part, bass tracks are monophonic, and reasonably clean. ![]() It’s not dissimilar to Slice to New MIDI Track except that command keeps the original sample sliced across different chains in a rack, while this discards the original sound altogether. ![]() You might have to tidy the notes afterwards but the idea is this can still be faster than programming the part from scratch. If there’s a lot of sounds playing at once, audio effects in use or other influences like audience noise – anything else in the background – of course it’s going to be harder to get a clean clip. The conversion process can work very well, but it’s dependent on the quality and character of the source recording. With Live it’s all about immediacy and creativity with these tools you’ll get results you wouldn’t have dreamed of – never a bad thing. Some complain that Live’s MIDI conversion tools aren’t as accurate or sophisticated as those in Melodyne, for example, but that’s missing the point. For more conservative uses, it’s typically drums or bass sounds, but it doesn’t take long to get into more left-field territory by converting field recordings, miscellaneous noise, and speech samples into rhythmic or melodic MIDI parts. The source material can be, well, anything. We can even venture far deeper into substituting different instrument sounds and applying MIDI effects. These handy commands let us transform an audio sample or recording into an editable form, without having to do any programming we can create a MIDI track from an original recording or we can create parts to play in parallel with the original part. Used with the ‘Slice to New MIDI Track’ and Freeze/Flatten commands, you can get amazing results. Introduced in Live 9, ‘Convert…to MIDI’ gives us new ways of disrespecting samples and creating new sounds. We’re looking at audio-to-MIDI conversion, which is one of the most fun activities in the Ableton World.
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