Converting mp3 to midi
With the right software, Midifile backing tracks can be converted to mp3, but unfortunately mp3 backing tracks cannot be converted to midifile.
Midifiles need individual instrument data for each sound (drums, bass, piano, brass, strings etc), but you can’t extract this individual instrument data from an mp3 file. This is because an mp3 file is a stereo recording which has had all the individual instruments in the song mixed together so they can’t be seperated in to individual sounds.
To best explain this, we should first look at the fundamental difference between a midifile and an mp3 file.
A midifile is multi-track arrangement whereas an mp3 file is a two track arrangement (ie stereo). A typical midifile may consist of up to 16 instruments (eg drums, bass, guitar, brass, strings, piano etc) each on their own individual midi channel. Although an mp3 file can consist of exactly the same number of instruments, the fundamental difference is that in an mp3 file these instrumets are all mixed together on two channels (stereo – left and right).
Imagine you are baking a cake…you have all the ingredients to hand (flour, eggs, water, sugar etc). You can deal with each ingredient seperately and decide how much or how little of each ingredient you want to use. But once it’s all mixed together in the bowl, you can’t go back and take the eggs out of the mixture! So, in this sense, the midifile is like the individual ingredients, and the MP3 file is the mixture in the bowl. CLICK HERE“>more
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