Is there an app that will transcribe what I play?

[eddododo]

Im not the most knowledgeable guy concerning music software, but it seems like you could record yourself direct while you play,

all this computer stuff takes as much time as writing it out if you just practice writing / reading for a while.

I swear, all the time, money & energy that goes into the whole computer music/recording/processing stuff just takes time away from playing and writing songs. Whatever format you record at today (Pro-Tools, Logic, Cubase, 24bit, 192 khz, non-interlaced etc) will be useless in 20 years.

I still say write it down on paper and photocopy it for others to read.

tape reels from today will easily last 20 years plus if stored properly, and music studios will always have a tape machine.

Dont get me wrong, I agree with you, message-wise , but some of us get terrible writers cramp. Some of us have other, more pressing transcriptions to do. Some of us want a computer to do it for us so we can spend the time analyzing it like we wanted to in the first place.

Once you have the software / process set up, i can pretty much guarentee that it would take much less time than listening back to a whole gig in real-time and then transcribing it.

transcribing a wayne shorter solo that is over your head? yes spend some time with one hand on the pencil and the other on the record needle.
transcribing yourself? You already know the vocab, save the time, use technology and get to the self-evaluation

 

[iriegnome]

I like this thread

 

[Stick_Player]

Do yourself a favor and write it down on paper with a pencil.
It takes a while at first, but you will get the hang of it and it is a great exercise to keep the reading skills fresh.
I recently started writing out guitar parts for my guitards even though they can't read it.
But I do write the chords above the staff lines so they can follow along.
Can't say it helps them any, but it helps keep me fresh.

This is the BEST advice.

Celemony Melodyne can convert your recorded bass track to mid file. Then any MIDI to notation software can save it as notation score.
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1. Record your bass as an audio file (wav, mp3).
2. Open your bass track in standalone Celemony Melodyne Studio.
3. Go to File - Save As - select *.mid for saving.
4. Open your mid file in any notation software and print it.

In the Melodyne you can also manually correct any intonation or timing problems for correct results before exporting as *.mid.
Check many Melodyne tutorials on YouTube.

This is most likely the BEST option, if you can't, or don't want to do the pen-to-paper option.

I'd choose the first option, except that I've been using Finale for many years.

I also own Melodyne Editor ($399), and use it a lot. It WILL convert audio to MIDI (probably the best available software to do this). It is pricey for this one use. You may be able to use the lower priced Melodyne Essential ($99).

With Melodyne, you can quantize, tune, adjust note lengths BEFORE converting to MIDI. THIS IS ESSENTIAL, otherwise you will end up with ridiculous rhythms (i.e., 64th-notes tied to dotted 128th-note-triplets, etc.). Melodyne will also allow you to fix wrong notes/pitches.

After you have the MIDI File, place it into another program such as Finale (the best - $600, there is an academic discount price of $350). Here you can do further tweaking of the rhythms (and anything else you may need to do).

I've gotten to where I can input faster in Finale, than pen-to-paper. I do this musical-notation instead of Audio-to-MIDI conversion because I can't read tabs. ;-)

Don't bother with things like the Sonnus BM2 - I have one, it's too "flakey". Send me $50, and I'll give it to you for FREE.

 

[sevdog]

i know a buttload of programmers. this seems like a really good idea. if musicians weren't all broke-arses i would take this idea to one of them.

seriously would be a good idea and doesnt seem out of the question for an app to recognize tones and document it. even if something like that werent 100% accurate it could be a very useful tool.

 

[Stick_Player]

i know a buttload of programmers. this seems like a really good idea. if musicians weren't all broke-arses i would take this idea to one of them.

seriously would be a good idea and doesnt seem out of the question for an app to recognize tones and document it. even if something like that werent 100% accurate it could be a very useful tool.

Roland entered the consumer audio (pitch)-to-MIDI market in 1987 (27 years ago), with the Roland GM-70. Lots of hardware. Read my above post for current software solutions.

Even the "latest" stuff is iffy, at best.

 

[sevdog]

Roland entered the consumer audio (pitch)-to-MIDI market in 1987 (27 years ago), with the Roland GM-70. technologydware. Read my above post for current software solutions.

Even the "latest" stuff is iffy, at best.

Dude, if the aliens in Close Encounters could copy tones then surely some of the aliens that have stuck around on Earth since then could help us out with the technology to document it.

 

[Stick_Player]

Dude, if the aliens in Close Encounters could copy tones then surely some of the aliens that have stuck around on Earth since then could help us out with the technology to document it.

DudeDude, you just might be onto something. Maybe.

 

[GBassNorth]

 

[sevdog]

That guy is an idiot. He blames all of Sasquatch's activities on aliens. That's just ignorant.

 

[MrDOS]

...tape reels from today will easily last 20 years plus if stored properly, and music studios will always have a tape machine.

Although I do not disagree with your point, this subpoint is already incorrect. The only tape machine a "modern" studio has is the one that holds Scotch tape!

 

[GBassNorth]

Is there an app that will transcribe what I play?

thx

Kinda looking that way.

 

[sm49341]

Great topic! OK I'm a programmer to some extent, albeit for manufacturing systems. Let me say this. If your brain can hear music and decipher it, then the possibility exists that it could be done by software. They have solved voice recognition in the last decade. Its probably the same reason there isn't an ebola vaccine: The people who want it can't pay for the price of development.

 

[kcandme]

I downloaded scorecloud epxress; we'll see how that does.

please, feel free to add others. I'll try them.

You Must Now Try ALL offerings, and post Reviews...

 

[droskobass]

Sonuus B2m is a bass specific audio to midi. It's about 99$ street

I ve never used it in studio but just live to trigger a mopho... Cool little box. It's a quick easy option,

 

[Jeff Bonny]

I tried that on my iPad and it didn't work...

Just like trying to pound nails with a saw doesn't work. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

 

[Stick_Player]

Sonuus B2m is a bass specific audio to midi. It's about 99$ street

I ve never used it in studio but just live to trigger a mopho... Cool little box. It's a quick easy option,

Those are hit-n-miss. Avoid.

 

[KeithPoker]

I very much agree with Slough Feg in DIY transcription although I get everyone has different interests in music.

 

[seamonkey]

Jam Origin MIDI Bass
It's been BETA for 9 months, and kind of rough, but free for now.
MIDI Guitar is good.

A trick on Melodyne or Ableton audio to midi, is play things up an octave on the bass. It picks it up better.

 

[Need Gigs]

transcribe! by seventh string seems to work with recordings, and doesn't seem to have a mic function to record me playing bass and then transcribe that...

Do you mean you want something that will tell you what notes you're playing?
Why? I imagine you know your fretboard...

 

[TitaniumRx]

The Ableton Live 9 can convert every audio,even your voice in midi data.You can just sing your bassline with your voice and make it midi notes.There is 3 different modes,melody,harmony and drum beats.

Go to 2:37 for a bassline conversion