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IntelliScore can convert WAVE to
MIDI, MP3 to MIDI, CD to MIDI
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- Do you want to use your analog
instrument as a MIDI controller but don't want to pay for an expensive
MIDI pickup?
- Have you ever been struck in a great
moment of inspiration and recorded a great new idea for a song or a
hot new lick, but now can't remember what notes you played?
- Are you a music teacher who needs an
easier way to write down a practice sequence for your student?
- Do you have a recording of a drum solo
and you want to see what you played?
- Or, are you a music copyist who is looking for a quicker alternative to playing an audio recording of a song over and over to pick out the notes and write them down?
Electronic equipment and computer software have been available for many years to record music in the form of a MIDI file so it could later be automatically converted into notation, played back using the sounds in your sound card or MIDI-enabled musical instruments, edited in a sequencer, or used on Web pages as a space-saving alternative to audio files. The catch is that the music has to be entered by hand or "played in" on a MIDI-enabled instrument, so you have to know how to play the song in order to create the MIDI file.
A few products have been recently developed that will allow you to sing or play a single non-MIDI instrument, determine the notes you played, and write them to a MIDI file or control another instrument. The catch here, of course, is that these products can only convert songs containing a single instrument or played monophonically -- one note at a time. That's fine if you sing solo or play a solo on an instrument such as a flute or horn.
- However, most prerecorded WAVE, MP3, WMA, AIFF, and AAC music files contain several instruments playing polyphonically. Attempts have been made over the last 25 years to create an automatic music conversion system that converts multi-instrument polyphonic audio files, for example:
- Chords
- Music played by a group of people such as a band or orchestra
- One person playing an instrument that produces more than one note at a time, such as a guitar or piano
- Recordings of non-pitched instruments, such as drums
Unfortunately, this dream has proved to be elusive. If you wanted multi-instrument WAVE, MP3, AAC, WMA, AIF, or CD files to be converted to MIDI, you simply had no alternative but to succumb to the often tedious and time-consuming task of picking out all the notes yourself, time that could be better spent on more creative endeavors.
Finally, the result of a spark of a dream and many years of research, Innovative Music Systems, Inc. has created the world's first and only software capable of multi-instrument, polyphonic WAVE to MIDI and MP3 to MIDI conversion. IntelliScore comes in two editions:
- Ensemble Edition: WAVE
to MIDI, MP3 to MIDI converter incorporating Innovative Music Systems'
breakthrough multiple-instrument conversion technology. IntelliScore
Ensemble is the only product in the world that can listen to a musical
audio file comprised of several different instruments including drums and
convert it
to a file containing the notes and drums played, broken down by instrument. It
can also convert a percussion recording comprised of several
different drums to a multi-drum MIDI file, not merely find the beats
and trigger a single drum as other products do. For more information,
read the full Ensemble Edition FAQ.
IntelliScore Ensemble also works on single-instrument music, played
polyphonically or monophonically.
- Polyphonic Edition: All the great features of the Ensemble Edition, except it is limited to converting single-instrument WAVE, MP3, and CD files, played polyphonically or monophonically and without percussion. This bargain priced edition is perfect if you work with single-instrument music.
For answers to common questions, be sure to visit our FAQ page. Also check out what musicians have said about intelliScore on our review page.
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Convert audio to MIDI in 3 steps: 1. Simply copy a recording of guitar, voice, etc. into the computer from an existing WAVE, MP3, WMA AAC, or AIFF file, an audio CD, a tape recording, or other audio source. You can also record directly into intelliScore. The music can even contain several notes at the same time, such as chords, and several instruments! 2. Follow the instructions in the easy to use wizard. IntelliScore music conversion software helps transcribe your WAVE, MP3, WMA, or CD file to a MIDI file, ready for cleanup through a sequencer. 3. Then, open the MIDI file in the included Anvil Studio or your favorite sequencer or notation program to: Play it... Notate or tab it... Print it**... Transpose it... Change individual notes... Switch or mute instruments... It's now a MIDI file -- you can do whatever you want with it.  Convert live audio to MIDI in 3 steps: 1. Select one of the predefined instrument templates or create your own with the easy-to-use wizard. 2. Connect your instrument or a microphone to the input on your computer and set the recording volume level. 3. Begin singing or playing your instrument. You are now controlling your synthesizer or recording into your sequencer in near realtime. You can even play several notes at once, such as chords! ** Printing from included Anvil Studio requires purchase of optional Print Sheet accessory. |
Uses for intelliScore
- Prerecorded music.
Helps you figure out the notes, chords, and key present in prerecorded
WAVE, MP3, AIFF, WMA, and AAC files and CDs, especially when you don't
know (or don't remember) how to play it. In conjunction with sequencer
or notation software such as the included Anvil
Studio, you can view and edit notation and guitar tablature from the generated MIDI
files.
- Analog instruments.
Use your analog musical instrument as a near realtime MIDI controller or
record directly into sequencers. Effects such as pitch bend, vibrato,
brightness, tremolo, and portamento are faithfully recreated on those
instrument tracks that are monophonic.
- Do the impossible.
Once your WAVE, MP3, AAC, WMA, AIF, or CD files are converted into
MIDI, you can do things that can be impossible with audio files, such as
changing individual notes and swapping or muting individual instruments.
- Build a score.
Build a multi-track MIDI score one track at a time by singing or playing a non-MIDI
instrument directly into intelliScore while listening to the existing
tracks.
- Chord names and key.
IntelliScore suggests complementing chord names from a set of 144 different chords based on the notes
in your WAVE, MP3, WMA, AIFF, AAC, or CD files, as well as the overall
key, and writes this information to generated MIDI files. It also
displays detected chord names in real time mode.
- Drummers too.
IntelliScore Ensemble can convert percussion to a
multi-drum MIDI file.
- Create lead sheets.
Helps isolate the lead instrument
or singing part from
stereophonic WAVE, MP3, WMA, AAC, AIFF, or CD files and writes it to a
MIDI file along with detected chord names. Just add lyrics within your
sequencer.
- Tune your
instrument. Tune your guitar
or bass guitar using the visual pitch indicator in live performance
mode.
- Remove vocals.
Helps remove vocals from
stereophonic WAVE, MP3, WMA, AAC, AIFF, or CD files for karaoke
singing.
- Ringtones.
You can use MIDI files generated
by intelliScore to create your own custom ringtones for your cell
phone.
- Save space.
Share your ideas with others via
the Internet. MIDI files improve download time and save space compared
to WAVE, MP3, AIFF, AAC, and WMA files.
Feature Comparison
The table below compares the capabilities of the two editions of intelliScore to help you decide which edition is right for you. Simply click on any feature to learn more about it.
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System Requirements
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