this music is not good to listen to per se but it is an interesting experiment I did:
- obtain audio of Ozolini, a Latvian folk song I am obsessed with
- use mvsep to split the audio into vocals and instruments, which actually worked really well
- independently run these tracks through the mp3 to midi converter that spotify has on their website for some reason (there are other utilities based on it)
- slap some synth instruments that I can only describe as "vague and blurry" onto the midis in logic pro to cover up the inherent jitteriness of automatic conversion
- perfect. flawless. this is music
The mp3-to-midi note conversion is more pitch accurate in some places than others but on the whole it's "definitely better than what was available the last time I tried to do this like 10-15 years ago". The only adjustments I made to the midi data was to trim the percussive opening of the song and delete a few obvious very high-pitched strays, I did not manually fix the timing or pitch of anything.
