Extracting An Instrument's Sound To Play MIDI Notes

[sjoens]

[John Vere]

Option # 1-Use a Sample player.  You play samples of a steel  guitar. That is the basic concept of Audio to Midi.  But the sustained nature of the steel guitar would be very tricky without a lot of pitch bending etc. 

Option # 2- Cut and Paste,    If you have a steel guitar audio track then you chop it up and move parts around.  Basically Clip construction. 

Option #3 Band in a Box- I did a pretty good job of this by first entering the chords of the song into Band in a Box. It has "Real tracks"  which are audio samples not midi. So the steel guitar sounds pretty good. I set the tempo and then choose a style that was close.  This gave me enough to work with. I exported the audio and dragged it to my Sonar project. 

I then used Melodyne Studio which can edit chords and I manipulated the track so it fit the song a bit better. Band in a Box is AI but it's a bit drunk most of the time. As a result I don't let BiaB play in my band but it's a handy tool for all sorts of creative stuff like this. Well worth the $100. 

[sjoens]

Thanks, but sorry. I gave my last $100 to some forum hijacker so we could text again and am still waiting on the $99 in change.