Introduction to audio-to-MIDI conversion

Audio-to-MIDI conversion is one of Live’s most exciting features.

Have you ever found an audio loop of chord progressions, for example, in which you absolutely loved the chords, but you didn’t really like the sound of the instrument that the chords were playing?

Or have you wished that you could modify some of these chords to your taste in terms of notation?

If you answered yes, it can go two ways… one is that you have fairly advanced music theory knowledge and you can play the chords yourself and pick a different instrument to play other than what the audio loop played.

The second reality is that you are struggling to play or recognize the chords from the audio loop. In this case, you would probably leave the audio loop and find another one in which you liked the chords and the sound too, and would settle on that. You don’t have to!

You can convert the audio loop into MIDI, which will enable you to...