An Idea Wondering if it can be done

[scorpion53061]

This question is primarily directed at those of you who use vb.net and
are musicians.

I have been toying with the idea of trying to write a program and some
how do this...

It would play an MP3 file

It would as it played list the chords in the song (basically somehow we
would have to be able to make it understand what notes are what based on
sound)

OR

It would show the notes in the song (basically we would have to be able
to make it understand what notes are what based on sound)

Do you guys have any ideas how we might do this or do you think it is
doable? Has it been done before?

Kelly

 

[Robin Tucker]

Hmmmmmmmm. Superb idea, but complicated. More in a theoretical sense than
a technical one. Ask this question in comp.ai.neural-nets for starters.
You might also want to ask in some "audio/sound processing" newsgroups,
although I don't have knowledge of these things........

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Kelly,

Download the newest DirectX 9c SDK development kit. In that are samples.

You need the DirectSound samples in that, forget the other ones.

The only problem is that DirectX uses only wav files and that the C# samples
are in my eyes direct from C++ translated files. However I think that the
rest (beside that wav) what you ask if very good to do in DirectX even in
those samples.

Two of the samples I have translated to VBNet when you want them, just send
me a email and than I reply them to your email adres. (Probably tomorrow)

(You can of course when you want them as well tell me that your emailadres
is valid and that I can use those for that files when you want them).

And when you have those two samples of me the other ones are in my opinion
easy to translate from C# to VBNet. (There is in my opinion a to much not
needed stuff in the C# samples for DirectSound).

I hope that it can help

Cor