Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-06 Thread Aaron Brady
On Nov 3, 10:20 pm, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a need to generate short samples of songs that are in MIDI   format, to provide a preview function in a web app.  We'd like to do   something more clever than just taking the middle 20 seconds (or   whatever) of the song --

Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2008/11/4 Banibrata Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Without pretending to be an expert on the subject of music-theory or audio-processing, my n00b'ish doubt is -- MIDI, unlike MP3 would be devoid of voice... and in my overtly simplistic thinking -- presence / absence of which (i.e. voice) could be a

Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-04 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Without pretending to be an expert on the subject of music-theory or audio-processing, my n00b'ish doubt is -- MIDI, unlike MP3 would be devoid of voice... and in my overtly simplistic thinking -- presence / absence of which (i.e. voice) could be a brute-force way of detecting refrain/chorus ...

Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-04 Thread alex23
On Nov 4, 2:20 pm, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a need to generate short samples of songs that are in MIDI   format, to provide a preview function in a web app.  We'd like to do   something more clever than just taking the middle 20 seconds (or   whatever) of the song --

Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-04 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Joe Strout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a need to generate short samples of songs that are in MIDI format, to provide a preview function in a web app. We'd like to do something more clever than just taking the middle 20 seconds (or whatever) of the song