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Hi all,

Like many others, one of the main uses I have for AudioCodex is music transcription, by ear and/or with manuscript. The audio quality of pitch and time control alone makes this app worthwhile.

There's something more along these lines that would (as you suggest) make at least some of my dreams come true, and this is pitch+timing to MIDI based on some smart spectral analysis.

Granted, there are other apps out there that specialize in this function - ones I know (and use) include:

widisoft audio to MIDI (Windows only)
intelliScore Ensemble (ditto)
Digital Ear (ditto)
Digital Music Mentor (ditto, for bass players)
Band-in-a- (ditto, also available for Mac, but has a "dead hand" which many musos can pick easily)

and

MuDic (the only other app for the Mac I can find).

Then there's Transcribe! for serious transcribers, but it assumes that a serious musician wouldn't look further than live acoustic with sheet music, and no MIDI (Heaven forbid!)

So there's really nothing out there, it seems (unless anyone has a good lead fopr me!), and it's the one thing that would put the icing on the cake, as it were, once you've bracketed the phrase or lick with the loop-markers, and slowed it down so you can hear every note .... and still can't quite identify several pitches. It'd be nice to have a spectral analysis on the spot instead of having to shift to another app, and then to another app to write the MIDI ...

Or am I inviting pity from the "genuine" muso's who've done it all the hard way and want to keep it that way? [hint: only joking]

Any comment?


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Neville

Hey Noach,

Your suggestion is appreciated. At present we are not doing any spectral analysis or FFT in AudioCodex, although we have plans to add such in a future version. At that point it will become possible to add the features you are asking for. We will take a look at your requests when it becomes feasible, it would certainly make AudioCodex a more serious transcription tool.