How to change mp3 to midi
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Principally, a midi file is like a sheet of music: it contains the tones to be played at the device that should play them, but does not contain the actual sound. The computer/cell phone/whatever is playing the file has to look the instruments up in a table and process the sound itself.
Mp3 contains the sound only, not the notes that make up the sound. It is the actual recording. The mp3 file is the recording of a sound; the player couldn’t care less about what it is playing.
Software programs that try to convert .mp3 to midi tries to estimate at what instruments play which tones and encodes them in a score. The simplest piano piece with no other instruments playing could never be said to have come from the original.
Particular instrument or sound has much more variation and uniqueness to it. That’s why midi files sound all too perfect – they are nothing but a robotic parody of what the song should be. Sure, a midi program could play Chopin’s “Polonaise in A Major” technically perfectly, but a human performance would have expression, love, emotion, and variance infused into the piece.