{"id":62,"date":"2008-12-31T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2008\/12\/31\/turning-raindrops-into-midi\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:13:11","slug":"turning-raindrops-into-midi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/turning-raindrops-into-midi\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Raindrops into MIDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent way too long last night trying to find a free tool to translate my recording of rain dripping beside my window into MIDI notes. I wanted to capture the rhythm and the varying volumes so that I could map that onto musical timbres.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t come up with anything free, and I didn&#8217;t want to buy software that probably was designed to make all the notes in tune and nicely quantized.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_QR5eIg8jpqs\/SVvi2cmIiTI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/M3BHhNMpQZQ\/s1600-h\/raindrops-to-MIDI2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/raindrops-to-MIDI2.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286068012666358066\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>So, for my 3-minute recording, I&#8217;ll just do it myself. In Digital Performer, I&#8217;m looking at the raindrops in the waveform and adding notes to the MIDI track at each waveform peak. I decided to approximately map different raindrop loudnesses to pitch, with random durations &#8212; there&#8217;s lots of ways to map the sounds. Using the pencil tool in DP to add the notes means they&#8217;re all the same MIDI velocity, so I&#8217;ll have to find some way to vary that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent way too long last night trying to find a free tool to translate my recording of rain dripping beside my window into MIDI notes. I wanted to capture the rhythm and the varying volumes so that I could map that onto musical timbres. I didn&#8217;t come up with anything free, and I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[103,104,16],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-audio-to-midi","tag-midi","tag-nature-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}