Aurally Sound Prism v1.2 [WiN]

• Product: Prism
• Publisher: Aurally Sound
• Version: 1.2.01
• Format: VST3, ARA
• Requirements: Windows 10 or later
• Source: aurallysound.com/pages/prism-audio-to-midi

Prism is a next-generation audio-to-MIDI engine designed for producers, musicians, and transcribers who demand accuracy and detail. Built on advanced machine-learning techniques, Prism converts audio into clean MIDI with exceptional note recognition—capturing chords & single-note lines—with high-resolution timing and dynamics. Prism opens the door to deep musical analysis and creative exploration.

Who is it For?

Producers

Convert samples into midi to understand and tweak them. Change the sound or even the instrument by converting to midi and rendering it with a virtual Instrument. Easily fix mistakes or tighten up the playing. Enormous creative opportunities available with midi that you can manipulate and harmonize.

Musicians & Educators

Record your ideas and exercises as audio and convert to midi. Use your DAW’s notation support to catalog your ideas for easy reference later; use it to prepare sheet music notation for your students.

Transcribers

Prism is enormously useful in quickly helping you decipher dense and fast passage work. Directly import the midi into your favorite notation package and fine-tune the arrangement.

Why Prism?

Designed for Solo Instruments

Prism is able to convert most instruments: acoustic guitar, clean guitar, lightly distorted guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, horns, violin, and more.

Monophonic & Polyphonic Precision

Unrivaled conversion of single and stacked multi-note instrumental audio. Prism accurately de-constitutes dense jazz piano/guitar playing, acoustic fingerpicking solos, single note violin, bass solos, etc. all with ease.

Fast Passage Tracking

Slow to fast passages, Prism has it covered. Other audio-to-midi convertors stumble when encountering faster passages. Prism’s unique algorithms are able to hear and transcribe these passages.

Frictionless Workflow

Works in ARA mode where supported, and as a standard insert plugin in every major DAW.

Multiple Algorithms

The “general” algorithm is the work horse and is applicable for most instruments. However, we wanted to eek out the absolute best performance so we created an algorithm specifically for solo acoustic piano and another for distorted guitars.

Built-in Fully Featured Midi-editor

Yes, we realize your DAW already has an excellent midi-editor, but having a built-in editor allows you to tweak the algorithm and see the results without having to do multiple round-trips of dragging the audio into your DAW.

Built-in Piano Playback

Yes, we realize your DAW has way better Instruments than the simple piano sampler we’ve included in Prism, but it has the same benefits as including the midi-editor does.

Spectrogram View

The spectrogram view provides a finer-grained view than midi notes and can be useful for figuring out guitar-bends, vibrato, etc.

State of the Art

We’ve invested a LOT of time and thought in developing our proprietary algorithms to get them to the point where we were happy with the results. We hope our efforts are useful for you.

What’s new in v1.2

• Compressed save data to reduce file size and speed up saving/loading.
• Renamed algorithm “ac piano” to “grand piano” to more clearly note that it is for high-end acoustic piano recordings (i.e. classical or jazz solo performance); other piano and keyboard audio are typically best served by using the “general” algorithm (doesn’t hurt to try both).
• Improved handling of split clips from the same audio source.
• Fixed a crash related to tempo maps.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking Save MIDI/Drag MIDI (tempo map related).
• Fixed a potential conflict with onnxruntime with other installed plugins that prevented Prism from analyzing audio.
• Fixed potential issue with ARA version when a clip is split and moved.
• Fixed a Capture Audio issue with MixCraft and Multitrack Studio DAWs.
• Fixed potential (rare) crash when playing MIDI and adjusting Sensitivity knob.
• Fixed issue with panning Prism’s MIDI when track is mono (note, you can’t pan audio and MIDI in Prism if DAW track is mono).
• Fixed issue in non-ARA version when just silence is captured and MIDI notes could get created at end of each row.
• Allow mouse to edit/modify notes when note is small on screen.
• Removed setting a default MIDI program change message in generated MIDI.
• Windows uninstall now correctly uninstalls Prism plugin(s).
• EULA: Clarified that we (Aurally Sound) are not responsible or limit how you use the results Prism creates (use them in your own creations but respect copyrights).