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PRESS RELEASE

Digital Ear 3.0 for Windows Released

May 02, 2001

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Digital Ear is a Windows-based program that can analyze a recorded solo performance (e.g. a singing human voice, or a musical instrument) and convert it to a standard MIDI file. That file can be send directly to any synthesizer, or can be imported to your favorite sequencer (e.g. Cubase VST, Cakewalk etc. ) for mixing with other tracks, or further processing. Digital ear reads standard PCM wave (.wav) files.

Unlike some conventional Pitch-to-MIDI converters, Digital Ear will send high-resolution pitch events closely matching those of your original sound according to the company. Any vibrato, tremolo, pitch-bend, or portamento effects of your recorded sound will be converted and reproduced into any voice of your synthesizer.

A unique capability of Digital Ear not found elsewhere, is that it can capture and send to your MIDI synthesizer, detailed envelope and timbre dynamics events. Those features can boost your synthesizer's voice realism and enhance your musical expression.

Key Features

  • Powerful recognition engine. Based on the latest psychoacoustical research on human pitch perception. Captures with incredible accuracy and speed (30 times faster than realtime) instantaneous pitch, volume, and timbre dynamics, with minimal errors.
  • Full-featured built-in Voice Features Editor. View your voice features as they evolve over time with an advanced graphical representation (virtual keyboard, chart, sliders). Edit the pitch, volume and brightness of the sound at any time-slice with accurate and quickly.
  • Settings Wizard: This is a advanced feature of Digital Ear 3. It allows you to find automatically the optimal settings for a particular audio file for best conversion results without trouble.
  • Completely customizable to match every musical instrument or human voice. Store an unlimited number of user-defined engine settings.
  • Smart Event Detector: This brand-new feature of Digital Ear uses a new real-time algorithm in order to accurately recognize a notes' attack. This feature is particularly effective for string instruments. On-the-fly real-time sensitivity adjustment.
  • High time resolution (10 ms frame size minimum)
  • Two types of MIDI files ensure full compatibility with all known sequencers.(Such as Cubase VST, Cakewalk e.tc.)
  • Power Tools:
    • Auto Correct. Will clean up for you most tracking errors automatically.
    • Transposer: Transpose your sequence with 1/100 of a semitone accuracy.
    • Pitch Quantize. Quantize your track to the nearest semitone values.Soft Quantization: User selectable natural sounding quantization/
    • In-Tune Wizard. Will tune for you automatically a de-tuned melody, without altering the performance dynamics.
    • Integrated MIDI and Wave file player. Sends your MIDI file to any user selectable any MIDI device. Preview your wave files without leaving Digital Ear.
  • MIDI controller redirection. Select any MIDI controller to send brightness and volume (expression) events.
  • Unlimited MIDI voice selection. Select any of the 128 GM (General MIDI) voices.
  • Full automated for GM (General MIDI) and Yamaha-XG compatible synthesizers. Also supports MIDI synthesizers that do not conform to these standards.

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