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.
this reminded me of the outro for our podcast i made, one of those "oh it's just experimental b.s. but i unexpectedly really like listening to it"
- ripped Star Trek: Discovery Intro How To Play¹ video from YT
- convert to midi. I think I used waon.
- arrange in ardour, naively so: I think I "separated" the track into "instrument" and "percussion" by deleting half of the notes? There's a third track. They're all "rendered" by Calf Fluidsynth. Sorry for lack of proper "vocabulary".
- perfect. flawless. this is music
¹ I had tried converting the real/full intro, ripped from Netflix, but the midi became a mess.