Help me: Metroid Remix/Sound Translation/Drums etc.

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Help me: Metroid Remix/Sound Translation/Drums etc.

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I was on smashbros.com today, and I noticed the music section. Listening to some of the music, I got in the mood to play something on the piano. So after hearing the Metroid song, I went to vgmusic.com and got a midi of the SNES Metroid Boss Battle (and MP1: Meta Ridley).

Messing around with it on the piano (I don't think many others were too happy about so many loudly played wrong notes...) I discovered it uses the same scale as Magmoor Cavern, the NES Metroid Introduction, and probably several other Metroid songs. Playing them together sounded pretty good, and so begins my quest to make a Metroid remix. There just aren't as many Metroid fans out there as there are Zelda or Mario...how sad. :(

As I hate using drag-and-drop note programs (I will if I MUST translate everything I play on the piano that way), I was hoping there was an easier alternative. Is there something? What would be absolutely PERFECT is a program where I can play music into a microphone or line in, and the program takes that sound and turns it into notes. My playing isn't exactly top notch, so there is bound to be plenty of errors that need fixing.

Also, I will probably need help with adding drums and additional sound effects. Is anyone willing if I need some help?
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we have a MIDI keyboard, thats what its for.
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It may be a midi keyboard (It doesn't even say so on it), but it ONLY has a stereo headphones out. I tried hooking it up to the microphone in on the computer and played some things into some program I got, and it turned out horribly.
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Kurt_ wrote:It may be a midi keyboard (It doesn't even say so on it), but it ONLY has a stereo headphones out. I tried hooking it up to the microphone in on the computer and played some things into some program I got, and it turned out horribly.
Plug it into the line input instead. The microphone jack expects a really low-level signal, much lower than the headphone jack.
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Post by Kurt_ »

Screw it. Before I do anything I should make the music first... :P
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