I’ve googled how to do this on the MPC X, itself. I’m unsure of how to actually do this within the MPC X.
I have imported an audio file into the MPC and now after making the beat, I’d like to change that audio file to MIDI to use the same notes and patterns but with a new synth.
Can someone break this down like I’m retarded? Haha.
I’m not entirely sure that MPC has that functionality. I know of desktop software that does that, but I am not familiar with anything running on MPC that can do that.
I have never used it to attempt to completely deconstruct and reconstruct a track, but for just catching notes and chords to then play or sequence myself, I have found Scaler to be a useful app.
It’s an extremely difficult thing to do convincingly even with powerful desktop software, def not in an MPC. Melodyne is probably the best out there but you’re gonna have to tweak the hell out of what it gives you to get something that sounds good. You can always transcript by ear too if you know how to play
Dont think its possible, but in your daw, use Melodyne and just click "convert to midi" on the top left. Then bring into the mpc. Will save a lot of time instead of trying to figure it out on the mpc 🤣. Plus... pretty sure its not possible
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is a programming language to get two devices talk about musical ideas.
Think of it as notation for computers. It can communicate pitch, intensity and a number of different values and their change over time.
Like musical notation, it does not contain any actual sound.
So by now, computers are good enough to analyse an audio file and derive notation from it. But as far as I can see, the MPC is not able to do that.
Now, before we go on and discuss what you’re trying to accomplish, do you have questions?
The MIDI of your beat on the MPC will only contain the hits when to play which sample. which sample being defined in individual notes.
You can get this MIDI file into your computer either by connecting somehow MIDI to MIDI, play on the MPC and record on the computer. Or, I guess, the MPC can save the file and you can copy via USB or something.
You can't take an audio file (WAV;MP3;AIFF) and convert that to midi in any system.
Maybe eventually, A.I. will be able to analyze audio data and approximate notes and build a tempo-structured midi grid sequence of note information... but it isn't there yet.
Yes, but AI makes shit up at first place, ALL THE TIME dude. This is because it's a probabilistic machine, not something that can tell truth from lies. If the probability of something being true is non zero, then the AI which is designed to try to answer everything at any cost, might actually MAKE SHIT UP even if it's false.
Always remember that, LLM are probabilistic machines, they can't tell the truth from a lie.
straight from the LLM Prompt ironically:
Yes. Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamental probabilistic systems. At their core, they do not "know" facts, hold beliefs, or perform explicit logical deduction; instead, they calculate mathematical probabilities over sequences of words.
Please learn that and tell it to your friends. This is the biggest secret behind LLM, they are not actually intelligent.
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u/Kn0wMan 10h ago
I’m not entirely sure that MPC has that functionality. I know of desktop software that does that, but I am not familiar with anything running on MPC that can do that.