So... once the issue of SARGAM notation was resolved I gathered a brilliant idea. I decided it was FINALLY time to correctly pitch the items in my library... All 60+ gigs of samples from one shot drums to loops to my early days of DITC. Like a mad scientist with a new i went through folder after folder...Command + A, Command + Shift + R, then "prefix pitch detected MIDI & Note Name."
It was like magic seeing how i was doing it was one by one using Melodyne to correct pitch drift and finally label the item with its correct pitch (single note) and/or its correct pitch and key its played in (C Maj, A Min, ect...)
Now It was time to finally just make music!
I took my MPC 4000 apart to reach the hard drive, transferred the library onto it, and started creating instruments. Thats when I noticed it...
A great deal of the detected note name were incorrect! I imported a few of AudioFinder pitch detected items into Melodyne to compare. Some were spot on...others were off two or three steps, an octave or three, and my favorite; the closed hi hat labeled B0.
I did take into consideration the infamous Middle C debate of C3 vs. C4. Since I couldn't find a pattern or logical reason why the notated pitches were inaccurate, I went further and sampled instruments from the roland fantom g into Pro Tools after backing it up and doing a factory reset. I used this as my constant since i knew the pitch of the samples taken.
I went through the same process above and the results from AudioFinder pitch analysis yielded again different results from the recorded and notated pitch of the notes (some but not all).
QUESTIONS
1. when are updated scheduled to correct this issue? 2. are there any updates in mind to correct pitch drift? samples that are a few cents flat or sharp. 3. update the lack of a space in a pitch name labeled by AudioFinder. ( #31 G2Bass vs. #31 G2 Bass)
4. A RENAME PROMPT FOR FILES WITH THE SAME NAME WHEN USING THE POWER RENAME FUNCTION. FILES WITH CONFLICTING NAME ARE TELEPORTED TO AN UNKNOWN PLACE NEVER TO BE HEARD AGAIN :'(
Guessing pitch by software can never be 100% perfect especially with complex harmonic material. Melodyne does one thing, pitch, that's the whole purpose for their app and it costs multiple times more than AudioFinder, I would expect them to be more accurate in this area, otherwise they would not have a reason for a product. When AudioFinder guesses a pitch it breaks the sound down into primary frequency bands and then chooses the strongest band for the pitch. That doesn't always yield perfect results on all material, the operative word is "Guess" it's an estimate. Drums are particularly difficult to pitch because they are not pure and seldom fall into one noteband. One can argue a snare drum can be multiple pitches, it's never a pure note. If you throw an instrument sample at AudioFinder it will most likely guess correctly, like a string sound or guitar pluck, sax etc...