[LAU] seeking a creative songwriting solution.

[Karen Lewellen]

and actually dupler, at least as advertised, provides its own means of 
incorporating pitch into a daw, no midi required.
does not work in Linux however.



On Thu, 19 May 2022, Sam Kuper wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:36:22PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 May 2022, Chris Caudle wrote:
>>> Karen,
>>>
>>> There seems to be some confusion about exactly what you would like
>>> (or at least I am a little confused), so perhaps some clarification
>>> can help.
>>
>> Glad you are owning  your confusion at least. smiles.
>
> Karen, the way that you asked the question was somewhat confusing.
>
> From the way you asked it, it seems you may not be familiar with Rick
> Moen's article (later expanded by Eric Raymond), "How To Ask Questions
> The Smart Way": http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> I would recommend reading that article.
>
>
> Anyway...
>
> In *outline*, with today's technology, there is broadly speaking only
> one way to achieve what you desire.  And that is to convert your voice
> to MIDI data, to edit/arrange the MIDI data, and to finally output that
> MIDI data as musical scores (for musicians/orchestra to play), or as
> audio (using MIDI synths/samplers).
>
> -  A pitch-to-midi tool.  Most likely this will be a software package of
>   some kind.  Some such tools may do real-time pitch-to-midi
>   conversion; others may analyse (monophonic) recordings, and output
>   MIDI.
>
>   Either way, the tool will take audio of a voice as input, and will
>   output either a MIDI file or a MIDI stream.
>
>
> -  If your tool outputs a MIDI stream rather than a MIDI file, you will
>   need to capture that stream into a MIDI file.
>
>
> -  Once you have a MIDI file, you can load it into a MIDI sequencer and
>   perform whatever edits/arrangements/etc you desire.  Typically, you
>   can preview what the resulting edit/arrangement will sound like, by
>   playing the MIDI data from the sequencer into a MIDI synthesizer or
>   sampler.
>
>
> -  If you are happy with the audio output from the synth/sampler, you
>   can record it as your final output.  Otherwise, you could record it
>   into a multitrack recorder for further editing/mixing/mastering.
>
>
> -  If the sequencer supports displaying/printing MIDI files as musical
>   notation (e.g. Steinberg Cubase does), then you can print the
>   resulting musical scores.
>
>   Otherwise, you will need to load the MIDI files into a separate piece
>   of software in order to turn the MIDI into printable musical scores.
>
>
> Which specific package to use for each of the steps is a matter of
> choice.
>
> Other people on this list can perhaps make recommendations.
>
> Hopefully, that is helpful!
>
> Sam
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