Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2015 November 27

= November 27 =

Music software sought
Say I make noise - such as La, La, La, - with a high and low pitch voice, according to some of the alphabets defined in the piano, is there a music software out there that will turn this vocal into instrumental music, such as piano keys? If you guys know what I mean... -- Space Ghost (talk) 05:19, 27 November 2015 (UTC)


 * The hard part will be the vocal note recognition. Still, that sounds much easier than voice recognition.  Once you have the notes recorded, and the timing, it should be simple to synthesize that as any instrument you like.  But one thing you probably will need is a way to edit the notes, in case it doesn't get it quite right. StuRat (talk) 05:25, 27 November 2015 (UTC)


 * If you google for "voice to midi app" - you'll find a lot of applications (many for phones) that will take audio of your voice and convert it to MIDI notation. Once it's in MIDI, you can generate any kind of musical instrument sound you want from that recording.  It's likely that you'll need to edit the recording to 'clean up' any small errors in the recording, tighten up the timing perhaps...and there's a ton of software out there to do that too.  Recommending a precise set of applications that will allow you to follow this chain of processes is difficult - much depends on what computers/phones/tablets you have - runnning which operating systems.  But it can certainly be done.
 * SteveBaker (talk) 06:37, 27 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Some recommendations and explanations were provided when this came up in November, 2010. Nimur (talk) 12:07, 27 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I forgot to clarify one thing i.e. -- Space Ghost (talk) 21:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * There are audio programs that work by including a audio as a seed. Then when you sing or record a sound on the mic, the program search for the most similar audio part on the seed audio and play this part. EVPMaker is one of those programs, but I never fully tested this feature of program (the program has other features too) to see if its really good. In theory you could record all notes of the piano in different lenghts, and then sing the song and let the program play the desired note.201.79.49.138 (talk) 10:51, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks.
 * I've read through the information of this software, sounds like an awesome satanic activity type of tool..lol.
 * Space Ghost (talk) 18:40, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Peeps, thank you all for helping me with this so far. I'm guessing I'll continue with this education as a private hobby at a later time in life, but will seek for software as long as I'm in this country... Regards. -- Space Ghost (talk) 19:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Web Archive saving problem
Im trying save many pages to Wayback Machine and usually after some time the page is not recorded and when I try again sometimes not work, what is problem? --Zunter (talk) 16:17, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * It's difficult to say without examples or more info on what error message you are receiving. For example, it's possible the pages can't be saved due to the robots.txt. It's also possible there was just some temporary problem. Nil Einne (talk) 04:20, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

WinCompose
It was suggested at the VP in this thread that I install WinCompose to aid typing diacritics. I have installed the program but I would like to add custom rules that use the same shortcut keys as Word. On this page it says I can add custom rules in a file named .XCompose.txt placed in my %USERPROFILE% directory. I have placed the file in the directory pointed to by the DOS SET environment variables command with a single line formatted as shown on this page. The line is,

I am expecting the sequence  to produce "ä". Instead it produces "�". Looking at the table of sequences from within WinCode, it lists the codepoint for the entry I have created as U+FFFD, which is not the codepoint I have written in the file. Any ideas? SpinningSpark 16:27, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * U+FFFD is the replacement character. I suspect that you saved the file in the system encoding and it needs to be in UTF-8. -- BenRG (talk) 17:03, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yep, UTF-8, that got it thanks. SpinningSpark 18:39, 27 November 2015 (UTC)