Organ control using singing voice

[woolyhead]

Does anyone know how to determine the pitch of a male singing voice in real time and control an electronic organ with it to make it play the same note?

[heavenlyarts]

YOu can buy vocal to MIDI convertor and then feed the midi input into an organ.

 

However the voice does not produce a single note, it produces harmonics that will by lost by the midi convertor.

 

[woolyhead]

YOu can buy vocal to MIDI convertor and then feed the midi input into an organ.

 

However the voice does not produce a single note, it produces harmonics that will by lost by the midi convertor.

 

 

Hi Heavenlyarts. Can the MIDI converter capture the fundamental? I'm thinking of using a male voice

[KidPhunk]

There is some amazing software called melodyne that will interpret inputted notes and place them on a piano role so you can actually see the notes, it even splits polyphonic sounds into individual notes. You can then export the audio as midi and play that through a soft synth that has an organ preset. Warning though melodyne is not cheap!

[Aleksandr]

You can either use a phase-locked loop (hardware solution), or digitise the audio and do a Fourier transform (software solution). You'll need to quantise the output of either, since you want the nearest note.