I know that there are programs out there that can convert .WAV files to MIDI
files. I then know that you can import the MIDI into, say Powertab, and it will automatically tab out the MIDI for you.

My question is:

Is there a program that will be able to isolate particular instruments when they
are playing as .WAV files? The reason is to isolate one instrument, then convert
to MIDI, then being able to have a tab.

Am I getting too confusing?

I wonder how accurate it would be if you plug your guitar into your computer and record yourself then seeing if it tabs out to what you played.

Is this method too much of a hassle?
Any better suggestions?

Of course, money is always an issue.

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I seriously doubt there is, its not possible. Unless you have the studies muli-track format of the song you could pick it apart in any music edititng software (i.e. Catwalk).

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I've just stumbled onto this kind of WAV to MIDI to Tab stuff within the last
hour. I'm going to play around with these things this weekend and get
a better handle on it.

I'll check out "catwalk" too.

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there is a wav-to-midi converter, but it's difficult to use and get what you want. it's pretty damn hard.
it's like taking a cake from a store, and trying to figure out the recipe (how much flour, egg, butter,etc. to use), without having cooking experience or knowledge about cake ingredients.
the instruments have to be separate.
what you might be able to do is tab out intros where they only have the guitar playing. and then using that to take out the other instruments in the song using noise reduction or a vocal remover in a program like Cool Edit.
still, for wav-to-midi program to figure out chords seems impossible to me
i think what we have to do is wait for someone to make a good program like that, that will figure out chords and notes of guitars, and it will separate instruments too.
we'll have to wait for technology to improve (and it'll probably be expensive too)



i think you might be able to do that now, if you have a midi pickup, i'm not sure. i don't know much about midi pickups, but i'm hoping they can export the midi of you playing, then you'd use powertab to convert.

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and i think he means "Cakewalk", not "Catwalk"

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Atif-
the only way to "plug into the computer", and see the notes record into tab, is if you have a "midi" guitar...and those exist. That's the way you use a midi keyboard, like I got. And I have never heard of a way to split up a wav. file into individual instruments. Like you said about that cake, there's no way to do it. wait, fuck it, heh, I just looked back and re-read, and I just said the same thing as you. oh well, we're on the same street. Maybe in ten or so years, we won't even have to play guitar anymore. our computer will do it for us. Sarcasm...if you didn't realize.

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Ok. I guess you can't 'split' a .wav file just yet.

Question:

Is there a way that you can listen to music on your stereo and being able to
isolate (drown out) instruments that way(ie:maybe adjusting equalizers)?

Side note:

This has happened to me.

I've listened to music on my stereo. I've played the same music on someone else's
stereo and for some reason, I can't hear (barely) one of the guitars. I've never
been able to figure it out and no one's been able to tell me why this happens.

Does anybody know what i'm talking about?

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some songs have each instrument on either speaker, so when you put all sound in [left] speaker, only those instruments you can hear, then vise versa.
take rock you like a hurricane, the VERY beginning, the guitar is on the left speaker, so if all the sound is on the right then you can't hear it...and [isolate] the solo guitar by itself, which is on the right. So this is basically a way around...but if you think you can record one speaker, you are wrong.

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Well, I'll try it for some songs and see what results I get. Then it'll be back
to using the good ol' ear.

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