Converting .wav to midi

[saltydog]

Hello everyone, I have been tearing my hair out trying to do the following: I want to play and record an original tune into band in the box, export or upload it to a file converter that will change the file from .wav to MIDI; and then export the MIDI file to an app that will convert the file to sheet music.
Has anyone done this?
I can successfully record to BITB but it automatically saves it as a file that none of the converters will recognize.
Your help please,
Salty Dog

 

[silky smoove]

For me the gold standard is the full license of Melodyne. I’ve not found anything that works as well.

 

[Xad]

Hello everyone, I have been tearing my hair out trying to do the following: I want to play and record an original tune into band in the box, export or upload it to a file converter that will change the file from .wav to MIDI; and then export the MIDI file to an app that will convert the file to sheet music.
Has anyone done this?
I can successfully record to BITB but it automatically saves it as a file that none of the converters will recognize.
Your help please,
Salty Dog

AnthemScore (unaffiliated) will take the wav file (or other audio formats) and let you generate MIDI as well as a score. It’s an ugly user interface, and not totally intuitive, but the manual is decent, and it does a surprisingly good job with transcription.

EDIT: single or dual voice transcriptions. I don’t think it will create an orchestral score, so you might want to think about running your stems through to generate the midi, and then using the midi files to build more complex scores if needed.

I have been using it for transcribing my own bass lines, and the occasional isolated bass or guitar for a song I’m learning.

I just came across it a few weeks ago and have been very pleasantly surprised at how well it does those things.

AnthemScore - Automatic Music Transcription

AnthemScore converts audio to sheet music automatically using AI. Turn MP3 and other audio files into PDF, MIDI, or MusicXML on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

www.lunaverus.com

 

[pklima]

Yeah, monophonic isn't very difficult, but for polyphonic is seems the full-price Melodyne is the best.

Are you recording vocals, bass, guitar or something else? Hopefully not a whole band at once captured with a single mic...

 

[Hoochie Coochie Man]

I don't know if this helps and I have not done what you are asking about but years ago I used a program called VLC Media player to convert file formats that was very versatile. I only used a small part of the capabilities that VLC offers. Perhaps there is a way to do what you want by employing VLC as an intermediary step in the process.

I just googled "VLC Media MIDI" and here is one result: Can VLC Play MIDI Files: How to Get MIDI File Support on VLC

These people are selling something, and I am not endorsing them, but I am trying to point you in a direction which further research on your part may prove to bear fruit.

 

[MonetBass]

Fender Studio Pro 8 will do it. I don't have it, but this shows how it works:

 

[JamesCarter]

Hello everyone, I have been tearing my hair out trying to do the following: I want to play and record an original tune into band in the box, export or upload it to a file converter that will change the file from .wav to MIDI; and then export the MIDI file to an app that will convert the file to sheet music.
Has anyone done this?
I can successfully record to BITB but it automatically saves it as a file that none of the converters will recognize.
Your help please,
Salty Dog

Heads up — WAV to MIDI isn't really a "convert the file" thing, it's audio-to-MIDI transcription, so the tool has to listen to the waveform and guess the notes, accuracy depends a lot on how clean/monophonic the track is.
For that step: Spotify's Basic Pitch is free, browser-based, no install. Ableton's got a built-in audio-to-MIDI feature if you have it. Melodyne's the gold standard but it's paid.
Once you've got a MIDI file, MuseScore (free) will import it straight into standard notation, that's probably your easiest path for the sheet music half.
If converters aren't even recognizing the file, it might not be a standard WAV, could be some BITB-specific variant or weird sample rate/bit depth. I'd check that first since it sounds like the real bottleneck.