Transcription Resources. Software to slow down music.

There are various other tools aimed at helping people to transcribe music from recordings. Here are the ones I am currently aware of. None of them are in head-on competition with Transcribe! as they all have differing approaches. Personally I don't think any of them equal Transcribe! as a general purpose transcribing assistant but perhaps I'm biased - try them and see.

There are also tools which are quite different from Transcribe! such as hardware playback devices, and software which attempts automatic transcription (output as MIDI or notation, Transcribe! doesn't do).

Software

AKoff Music Composer
AmazingMIDI by Araki Software
Amazing Slow Downer by Roni Music
AudioCodex from MachineCodex
AudioSculpt sound analysis tool from IRCAM
Autoscore by Wildcat Canyon Software
BestPractice by Robert Moerland
CD Looper by Replay Technologies
Chord Pickout
Chord Transcriber by Musician's Ear
CHRONOStream by PSOFT Audio
CLAM Music Annotator
DsChordFinder by Dubbeldam Software
ELAN by Eudico
Frequency Analyzer by Reliable Software
FullSuiteScriber by mArma Music
GoldWave Digital Audio Editor
Guitar & Drum Trainer by Renegade Minds
Guitar Shed by Astoundit
GuitarMaster by RoboSens
Integrated Music Transcribing Tool - Music Analyzer by Atsu Oka
Intelliscore by Innovative Music Systems
LoopyLoopX by Jean-Louis Valero
Loop Master WinAmp Plugin
MPEX time stretching by Prosoniq
mTrax by TerraSofta
Music Explorer by Geoff Peters and Gabriel Lo
Note Chaser
PaceMaker WinAmp Plugin
Pitch 'n Time by Serato
PitchScope by Creative Detectors
Pulse Master by Pianosoft
Riff Master Pro
Riffster by Polarity
Rosoft CD Extractor by Rosoft engineering
ScoreExtractor by Roman Yakimenko
Slo-Mo Director by Mike Herberts
Slow Me Down by Roni Software
SlowGold & SlowBlast by World Wide Woodshed
Solo Explorer by Recognisoft
Song Surgeon
Sonic Visualiser
SoundTouch Audio Processing Library
SoundToys (formerly WaveMechanics) - pitch and speed software
TimeToyPro by LowNorth - time-stretch software
Transcribe! by Seventh String Software
Transkriber by Reed Kotler Systems Inc
TS-AudioToMIDI & 7Canaries Standard by TallStick Software
Waon Wave-to-Notes transcriber
WIDI Recognition System

It's also worth mentioning that Windows Media Player version 10 and Apple's QuickTime version 7 are both capable of slowing down music without changing pitch. In fact, the internet is awash with software to slow down music without changing the pitch. I'm glad Transcribe! does so much more than that.

Windows Media Player version 10 instructions : load the track for playing in Windows Media Player, select "View" at the top, and under "Enhancements", select "Show Enhancements". Then go to the "Now Playing" tab, and you can use the slider to slow the piece down.

QuickTime version 7 instructions : load the track into QuickTime Player, and on the Window menu select "Show A/V Controls". There is a "Playback Speed" slider in this window.

Join a Discussion Forum on Transcribing

There is a discussion forum hosted on Yahoo! groups called "MusicTranscribers". It is for everyone who transcribes music of any sort by any method. Feel free to join whether or not you are a Transcribe! user. For more info, click here. If you have bought Transcribe! then I will notify you anyway of updates or other Seventh String news, but if you want the earliest notification, for instance when a new version starts testing but is not yet released, then join this discussion group.

Other Transcription Resources

Music Notation Info by Gerd Castan - info and links about music recognition, and also about music notation generally.

The DSP Dimension - technical material about speed and pitch changing, by Stephan M. Bernsee (formerly Stephan M. Sprenger). In particular Dirac - "C/C++ Library for High Quality Audio Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting" under the Technology menu.

Matija Marolt, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - research in automatic transcription.

Anssi Klapuri, Tampere University, Finland - research in automatic transcription.

Science News Online - article about automatic transcription.

Other names/places for automatic transcription: http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk, http://iie.fing.edu.uy/investigacion/grupos/gmm/audio/, Keith Martin, David Mellinger, Dan Ellis, Paul Walmsley, Simon Godsill, Manuel Davy.

Alisdair MacRae Birch site - a useful page with more info about transcribing hardware and software.

audiotranskription.de - a useful survey of software for transcribing from video. Speech rather than music.

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