Very cool transcription shareware

[cmartin]

I recently came across some very cool music transcription shareware called 'Transcribe!'.

Its a pretty small download and by far the best free one I've found on the net. You can figure out any lick with this, no problem.

http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/

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[jeffrey]

Cool.

Gonna check it out now.

[Two hands31]

You think that's cool, check out Guitar-Pro

Oh, and I almost forgot to add that you can transcribe guitar (6 OR 7-string), bass (4/5/6-string), drums, keyboards, banjos, etc, etc and have it play back in midi. *Also, if you buy the full version, you can import midis into tabs, save more than 20 bars (which you can't do in the shareware version) and print. *There's also a huge library of tabs submitted by people that you can also submit to and it's great (even for the trial version) for finding ACCURATE tabs since you can hear how it sounds and if it sounds wrong (and some do anyways).

Here's the link to that: *Guitar-Pro Songbook

(Edited by Two hands31 at 8:28 am on Aug. 2, 2001)

[nmanel]

Huuum...

I MUST comment here. There is also Guitar Studio (http://nmanel.free.fr) that I made. Few points:
- Guitar Pro is expensive
- Guitar Pro does not display the staff, on the contrary of my Guitar Studio, so Guitar Pro is not very useful to *transcribe*(this thread topic) a score
- Guitar Pro does not support the "RMTF" format (i.e. MIDI files containing tablature data), on the contrary af ALL other tablature editor
- to me, the editor interface of Guitar-Pro is not convenient at all...you strictly have to fill measures one by one and one after one, it is really hard to do a transcription work with this software.
- The only real advantage of Guitar Pro is the SongBook. This is not useful for the music community AT ALL: because this software is compatible with NO alternative format, you HAVE to use Guitar Pro only. I hate monopoly, this is so rude for users. Users just have no choice...
- In fact, Guitar Pro seems to be made by someone who is quite "selfish" from a music software community point of view and not interested in music, but in money only. The author of Guitar Pro does not seem to want guitar softwares to improve by helping each other, but more does he seem to want to sell his software and then give NO support (the latest verison of Guitar Pro is one year old now and there is just no public forum to know what's going on). This is a shared statement between me and other shareware authors (Tabledit, Melody Assistant, Tabazar...).
- the author of Guitar Pro refuses to implement the RMTF format in its software and refuses to share his proprietary GTP format.

However, I just want to point out that you can use Tabazar to import Guitar Pro tablatures. And then you can make universal RMTF MIDI files to use in ANY tablature editor (except Guitar Pro ).

I'm just so sad that people use the "money-oriented" Guitar Pro so much, when there are so many "music-oriented" alternatives.

Maybe it sounds like a deja vu story...(cf Windows and Linux.......)

Nicolas.

[bachle7]

I really liked the demo version of Slow Gold. *It loops certain parts, changes the speed (not pitch), etc.

www.slowgold.com

[Vai is God]

POWER TAB!!!!

[nmanel]

Yes PowerTab is pretty nice.

Afer one year without any update, it seems like a new version is coming up.

Although, I'm a bit sceptic : it really looks like it's a lot of new features for just one new version...we'll see !

(Edited by nmanel at 12:47 pm on Aug. 3, 2001)