Dear friends,

I am new in this forum and I started with PD few weeks ago. I find fantastic this program. Here goes my question:

I am thinking about a new work in real time and I wonder if is it possible with PD to get the Audio from a Mic, change it into MIDI information (frequency to midi note) and to do this inside a host. I use Ableton Live.

Is there any tutorial to do this patch?. I guess it must work as a vst or AU plugin.

Thaks for your forum and your help.

Francis

i have been working on such a patch for a while now
http://cmpercussion.blogspot.com/2008/08/theremin-to-midi-control-program-in-pd.html
this is a good place to start
[bonk~] is an object to look into

now that patch turns audio into control data so then you will need to get a velocity message either seperately created or made from the audio in (this is where bonk comes in handy)

then from there you might think about making a threshold that could be set so that only certain notes that are loud enough will play the threshold will depend on what instrument you use to send the data
for instance i am using a guitar mainly for now (as using a mic creates more ghost notes than an instrument with a line in)

so hopefully this will help you get started towards an audio to midi patch
paul

Thanks a lot. Your information is very useful. I am going to start working on that patch.

Francis

Wednesday, (and francis) I'd sure be interested to have a copy of your audio to midi patch, when you've completed it, and help out if you need it.

I could make it (as many here could) but just can't get round to finding enough reason to!