Is anybody familure with software that will convert the music (.wav/.mp3) into sheet music? I have one for midis, but am wondering if there is other software out there?
I use Autoscore for transcribing my live whistle playing into sheet music and MIDIs. There are severe limitations–the biggest one is that only melodies are parsed, a second is that vocals parse poorly. Chords are not recognized so 95% of commercial recordings will probably not parse. Also, like scanning software’s optical character recognition, it is far from perfect, even when doing melodies only. That said, it is a lot better than trying to transcribe by hand.
A quick search turns a site for the publisher, Wildcat Software. However, the copyright is 1999 and an out of stock message comes up, so take that for what it is.
http://www.wildcat.com/Site/Homepage.htm
What some people have taken to doing with whistle solos is using a slowdown program plus a tuner (either program or electric tuner) to get each note, one at a time. Labor intensive? Yes, but if there is a tune that a person really wants to learn, it is one way to go.
- Bill