IntelliScore WAV/MP3 to MIDI Converter Updated

Innovative Music Systems announced the release of version 5.0 of its patented intelliScore music recognition software that listens to prerecorded polyphonic music (in WAV or MP3 format) and creates a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file containing the notes played, likely chord names, and overall key. The MIDI file, in turn, is suitable for notation, editing, and playback, and allows musicians to spend more time making music and less time figuring out the notes in unfamiliar pieces. IntelliScore also allows musicians to use their voice or analog instrument as a real-time MIDI controller or to record directly into a MIDI editing program such as a sequencer, recreating many of the expressive nuances contained in the original performance. A trial version is available for download at www.intelliscore.net.

The new intelliScore simplifies the task of separating detected notes and assigning them to different MIDI tracks when the prerecorded music contains multiple instruments. IntelliScore can assign each musical note to one or more MIDI tracks based on their pitch and stereo channel via patch maps. Each MIDI track, in turn, can be associated with a different instrument. Musicians can use any of intelliScore's pre-supplied 23 patch maps that represent common instrumental ensembles, or they can create and save their own.

In addition to processing each stereo channel separately, intelliScore helps to isolate or remove individual instruments from stereophonic music based on their position in the stereo image. For example, intelliScore can help remove vocals from a performance, or alternatively, process the vocal part only.

Joe Kohler, president of Innovative Music Systems, stated: "IntelliScore has already broken ground as the first commercially successful polyphonic music recognition system. Now, intelliScore adds multiple track support as well." Polyphonic music contains more than one note at a time. Most music is polyphonic. Kohler added: "Musicians, teachers, and composers around the world have expressed to us a desire for a music recognition solution that will help them edit MIDI files generated from multiple instrument audio recordings. We have responded by providing a set of new features to assist the musician assign notes to different MIDI tracks, each associated with a different instrument."