wav-to-midi conversion

Question

I\'m new to this field - but I need to perform a WAV-to-MIDI conversion in java. Is there a way to know what exactly are the steps involved in WAV-to-MIDI conversion? I have

Answer 1

This is a very big undertaking for being new to the field, unless you mean you are familiar with signal analysis and feature detection in general and want to look more specifically into automatic transcription.

There is no API for WAV to MIDI conversion. Vamp is a framework for feature extraction plugins, but to do automatic transcription you would need to use all the functionality of the existing plugins, plus implement functionality that exists in none of them yet.

Browse through the descriptions of the plugins on the vamp download page, any descriptions you do not understand are topics you should start researching if you want to do this.