Going to play Eminence Front by The Who live, but...

PDiGiorgio · Post by **PDiGiorgio** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:05 am

Hey gang, I am going to by playing Eminence Front by The Who for a live show, and I need help getting the looped sound down.

Here's the song: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuOw5k5_OM). The loop is heard clearest from 0:00 to 0:20.

I tried doing it with Karma, but whileI came up with some great sounds, they don't sound like This. Any suggestions are appreciated, and thanks in advance!

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:16 pm

Ableton Live can convert audio to midi - should work well for that starting sound.

PDiGiorgio · Post by **PDiGiorgio** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:01 pm

Ah ok, so you're saying I should import the clip into my DAW (Sonar in my case), and do an audio-to-MIDI process. I will definitely try that, thanks Ksynth! I'll let you know how it goes.

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:05 pm

I think Sonar does the conversion too.

And if there are too many notes (I think that intro has overlapping sequences) use Melodyne within Sonar?

Have you tried to find a midi note file version online?

xp50player · Post by **xp50player** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 6:17 pm

You can buy the MIDI file from Yamaha. There are many layers of arpeggiation in that. Other than the Rhodes part and little saw lead, it will need to be prerecorded to sound anything like the original.

synthjunkie · Post by **synthjunkie** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:27 am

Had the same issue. I just sampled the sound and triggered the loop from one key on the keyboard.

HardSync · Post by **HardSync** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 7:23 pm

If anybody is of a mind to recreate the (I think) Yamaha E70 organ arpeggiator stuff, this might be helpful (or I suppose you could sample it, but unfortunately it has the electric piano part in it, too):

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