JoeButton's PitchDetect plugin?

[TheSafePlaces]

http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/guitar- ... nux-ingen/

It seems the link he gave for the plugin doesn't work (svn co https://tubbs.trition.org.uk/audio/lv2/pitchdetect ...I'm somewhat new to Linux, how does one use that kind of a link?)
Anyone know anywhere else it may be available?
Or how to setup something like this using some other program(s)?

Audio triggering a synth like this can have absolutely tremendous applications. Picture this - no MIDI keyboard, no expensive and/or inaccurate MIDI guitar setup, no additional hardware, just plug any guitar into any audio interface and play synths and samplers! @_@

Thanks!

[Pablo]

Or how to setup something like this using some other program(s)?

See Rakarrack, Help -> MIDI converter

[TheSafePlaces]

Wow, thanks Pablo. Rakarrack sure is full of surprises, never saw that little thing tucked away to the side.

Anyway, while this was extremely exhilarating to play around with, it has a little latency which made it unusable for live work (I doubt it's my notebook, 2.3 GHz quad core with 3 GB RAM...could be the HD though), and my work mostly involves chords, basslines, counterpoint...I need something polyphonic...

[Capoeira]

check http://waon.sourceforge.net/

never used it though

[StudioDave]

check http://waon.sourceforge.net/

never used it though

It's a non-realtime application to convert WAV files to MID files. Takes some tuning for good results.

Best,

dp

[DoosC]

Aubionotes is real time : http://aubio.org/aubionotes.html

For simple use with jack just type :

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aubionotes -j

[autostatic]

Guitarix can convert to MIDI too.
The source code of Joe Button's plug-ins can be found here: https://github.com/Joeboy/joeboy-lv2-plugins
Maybe I'll give another shot at it. The Pitchdetect plug-in needs a very recent version of Aubio and I couldn't get that to work last time I tried packaging it.

Best,

Jeremy

[brummer]

Guitarix can convert to MIDI too.


Best,

Jeremy

That Feature is disabled in the Last guitarix release,because it Didn't work well.
Greets
brummer

[autostatic]

Bummer, on the other hand, I did play around with it and do agree with your findings.

[autostatic]

Can't get aubio from git to compile. Probably because it relies on too old versions of SWIG and Python (that's just a shot in the dark though).

[TheSafePlaces]

Thank you for the link, AutoStatic! Enthralled!

As for Aubio, well, I still don't understand how to download from this kind of a link -
git clone git://git.aubio.org/git/aubio/
How does it work? Tried to add it as a repository in Synaptic, didn't work.

RE:aubionotes
I took a spin with it...I'm afraid it's even less polished than Rakarrack's MIDI converter...way more wrong notes, and still no polyphony.

I had a word with the Rakarrack devs...very nice of them to chime in and give some useful tips on combining rakarrack's MIDI converter with aubionotes. Will try this and post back.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rakarra ... ic/5327772

But still no solution for poly...and it seems the that even if we get JoeButton's plugin working, it'll only work with synths, not samples, because it looks like there's no MIDI involved, and my line of work (film scoring, accompaniment for theater) mainly calls for sampling.

Is there no way? x_x

[autostatic]

Thank you for the link, AutoStatic! Enthralled!

As for Aubio, well, I still don't understand how to download from this kind of a link -
git clone git://git.aubio.org/git/aubio/
How does it work? Tried to add it as a repository in Synaptic, didn't work.

Assuming you're using Ubuntu then open a terminal and from there:

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sudo -i
apt-get install git-core libjack-dev libsndfile1-dev libsamplerate0-dev libfftw3-dev
apt-get build-dep aubio
exit
cd
mkdir aubio-git
cd aubio-git
git clone git://git.aubio.org/git/aubio/
cd aubio
./waf configure --disable-fftw3f --enable-jack --enable-sndfile --enable-samplerate

I didn't get further than this. If you get further without getting any Python TraceBack errors, let me know, that might mean you could actually move on and install aubio 0.4.0-alpha and proceed with compiling the actual plug-ins.

But still no solution for poly...and it seems the that even if we get JoeButton's plugin working, it'll only work with synths, not samples, because it looks like there's no MIDI involved, and my line of work (film scoring, accompaniment for theater) mainly calls for sampling.

Is there no way? x_x

The PitchDetect plug-in doesn't emit MIDI but frequencies I think. So at the moment there's just the tools you've already tried. Let's hope transmogrifox can pull something out of his big, black hat (no bunnies or pigeons please)

[TheSafePlaces]

AutoStatic, thank you for those commands

Anyway, I followed your steps, and like you said, I got Python traceback errors. =\
What might be the solution...ought one contact the devs?

I suppose even synth-only isn't bad...even if it does translate into putting in so many hours into synth programming to get realistic sounds (...if that ever happens?).

As for Rakarrack and pitch-to-MIDI in software...I'm trying to talk to some programmer friends of mine to get into it, for whatever that's worth.