NeuralNote VS ardour

Scalar 2 is beneficial for sure, but definitely is best when accompanied with music theory knowledge. I think it's great for when you want to try some different things, but don't want to figure all the potential variations of some chord in F#m, because no matter how much theory you know, that'll always take at least some brain power. A lot of the other ones ive seen seem to overpromise and are essentially just random number generators. Things like abletons scale device are handy. I can't play all the keys on piano as easily as I can play Cmaj/Am so using that to be able to play white keys, but match the song's key is helpful. And if you ever want audio to midi to get the midi of a sample of something, I think BasicPitch is the best algorithm. Better than ableton or melodyne in my opinion. This free VST uses it under the hood. It also lets you adjust sensitivity, min. note length, and the threshold for splitting a note, which can give you less of the "drunk with the shakes" vibe that audio to midi usually has. That being said, it's not always better, there have been times that Ableton or Melodyne does better for a given sample, but more often than not Basic Pitch does the better job.

There's this https://basicpitch.spotify.com/ and this https://github.com/DamRsn/NeuralNote which work well and are free, but aren't perfect. There's others too (search for polyphonic pitch to midi converter)

> I think a lot of people starting with open source kinda expect that dedicated contributors will start to swarm around the project. In reality, a large majority of projects, even many quite prominent ones, are driven by a very small core, often just the project founder.

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/gtk2_ardour/abo...

I'm the lead author of Ardour [0], and I'd very much like to hear more about your frustrations, since over the next 1-2 years, paying attention to non-European musical culture is one of the things I hope to focus on during development. You can reach me via the email address in my profile, or maybe use our forums at discourse.ardour.org. Thanks.

[0] https://ardour.org/ <= a cross-platform open source DAW that has been around for more than 23 years

One extra detail, something I've learned from 20 years of working on dragging all kinds of objects around the GUI of Ardour [0]: handle ALL button press and release events as drag events where there is no movement.

[0] https://ardour.org/

I am aware of the 'Real Tone Cable' however I am curious if this is what I should be buying if I also intend on recording my playing in a software such as 'Ardour'

If you don't care about exotica like async or signal safety, and just need to see the callstack from arbitray points, this can do the job without C++23:

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/libs/pbd/stackt...

(2 different implementations, one for POSIX-y systems with the execinfo.h header, and one for Windows)

The demange() function is elsewhere.

I just loaded an instance of samplv https://samplv1.sourceforge.io/ into the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ardour https://ardour.org/ .

If you produce music using a DAW, my preferred is Linux's Ardour: http://ardour.org

Ardour is a free DAW that recently added a clip launcher. I've never tried it.