on various threads I have noticed people referring to different types of software they use for music, not playing, but manipulating/writing/altering/slowing etc.
Could people write about music software and what they think of them, where they are found etc.
Sounds really useful!
Stella
Transcribe by http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/ is a good program. You can download and use a partial version. Bill Ochs recommend this program. It will cost $40.00 to register for the full use but it is well worth it. You can download from their site program to rip track from a cd and then Play them with transcribe. I particularly like the spectrum graph. You can see every note and see where the artist is taking their breaths
On 2002-09-24 00:19, Wizzer wrote:
Transcribe by > http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/ > is a good program.
I second that assessment. Actually, I would say Transcribe! is a great program. It works exactly as described, the help screens are clear, and the author responds promptly to questions. It’s available in both Windows and Mac flavors. (I use the Mac version.) The web page gives a very thorough description.
–C#/D
I have to ditto the recommendation for Transcribe though I haven’t used it a lot. With almost any song you can select the entire song and tell instantly what key it is in just by looking where the tall spikes are on the spectrum graph. Then you can zoom in on a single note if you wish to figure out that tough passage and so on.
Cool Edit is a great program for recording and polishing up your recordings. It has a pretty good adaptive noise filter, normalization, and reverb effects. I’m still using Cool Edit 96 (it does everything I need) but Cool Edit 2000 is pretty nice with effects plugins and multi-tracking and such. I don’t remember what Cool Edit 2000 goes for, seems like it’s $80 but I’m not sure. In any case, it is shareware so you can try it out first.
For creating sheet music, tab, and MIDI I use abc. I use my own variant of abc2ps to create sheet music and tab, and another freeware open source program called abc2midi to generate midi.
Sometimes I use Microsoft’s Direct Music Producer (free with some distributions of the DirectX SDK) if I want to really spiff up a track. It’s free (provided you’re willing to download about 60 Meg of SDK) but has a very steep learning curve. It’s really designed for creating music loops for video games and such.
John