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The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people whowant to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, orplay it themselves, or both.It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialisedplayer program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It has manytranscription-specific features not found on conventional music players.
Audio Pitch & Shift is a lightweight and very easy to use application developed to help musicians to slow down or change the pitch of the music. This software takes advantage of Bass audio library technology, wich is multi platform and x64.
It is also used by many people for play-along practice. It canchange pitch and speed instantly, and you can store and recall any number of named loops.So you can practice in all keys, and you can speed up as well as slow down.There is some advice about play-along practice in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading 'Various Topics'.
And it is also used for speech transcription. With its support for foot pedalsand its superior slowed-down sound quality, it is an excellent choice for this purpose.There is some advice about speech transcription in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading 'Various Topics'.
Conventional music players (whether hardware such as a CD player or an iPod,or software such as Windows Media Player or iTunes) are really designed for peoplewho want to listen to whole tracks. They are very inconvenient for transcribingmusic as they are not designed for this purpose. If you copy the recording toyour computer's hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead.Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smootherand easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch,to analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability ofadding markers and textual annotations so you can easily navigate around thetrack. Transcribe! also has a piano keyboard displayed on screen which you canclick to play reference notes.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processingan audio file and outputting musical notation or midi - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolvedresearch problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hearchords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrumare notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise andbroad-spectrum instruments such as drums. If you have never worked out even a simple piece ofmusic by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (seeHow to Transcribe),but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can makethe job a lot quicker and easier.
If you are working from a video file then Transcribe! can usually display the video too.
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicitinformation about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty ofprograms available which can display this information. Transcribe! deals withaudio sample data files.
Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor.It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitchchange and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want.
Transcribe! is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Transcribe! is Copyright © 1998-2020 Seventh String Software.
You may download Transcribe! and use it for 30 days evaluation period forfree. If you want to continue using it after that you must buy it.
What's Special About Transcribe!
There are a lot of software applications and hardware devices out there whosestated purpose is to help you to transcribe music (seethis page).Almost all of them are in fact tools for slowing down the music without changing the pitch.
Transcribe! certainly does perform this trick but I have never regarded it as themain function of the program, and in fact version 1 of Transcribe! didn't even havethis feature. I have done a lot of transcribing and I have always found that the mostawkward and tedious part of the job is simply that of navigating around the trackand controlling playback. On a CD or other conventional music player, the business of finding againthe section you want to hear, of playing again the phrase you are working on, andgenerally knowing where you are, is a constant distraction from actually concentratingon the music.
Transcribe! displays the track as a scrollable waveform from left to right. Youcan place markers for sections, measures and beats, and you can label them withdescriptive names and add textual annotations if you want. The markers identifythe various points in the track and you can click on any point to play instantly fromthat point. There is a rich collection of keyboard shortcuts for controlling playback,and you can also use pedals for hands-free playback control.You will soon find that this allows you to concentrate on the music instead ofconcentrating on fiddling with the playback controls and wondering where you are.This may not sound very glamorousbut if you actually do transcribe music then I think you will appreciate what I am saying.
Features
Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many differenttypes of audio file and audio CD. It also has a 'Record' facility forrecording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audiowaveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measuresand beats, and easily play or loop from any point.
Transcribe! can also display the video synchronised to the audio for manyvideo files.
Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboardshortcuts and you can configure these as you like. You canconfigure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your handsfree : start and stop playback with your feet!
There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
The 'spectrum' feature displays the strength of the various pitchesin any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over apiano keyboard graphic. The heights of the various peaks in the graph indicatethe strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magicbullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
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Transcribe! will perform 'note guessing' and 'chord guessing' - that is,it will attempt to interpret the spectrum information for you, markingthe notes being played on the piano keyboard, and attempting to name the chords(in standard form such as 'Am', 'E7#9', etc). Note guesses can be displayed in'piano roll' form, showing the guesses over time, aligned to the waveform view.
Transcribe! supports Automation (or Scripting). You can runTranscribe! automatically from commands in a file, perhaps to processa number of sound files, saving them at different altered speeds, or toinstruct Transcribe! to play various sound files with various effects.
Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change,EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in'real time'. This means there is no pre-processing or otherwaiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you caninstantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press thehalf-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.
Mono/Karaoke
This effect allows you to mix the two channels of a stereo recording together invarious ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as 'karaoke' asit sometimes has the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panneddead-centre).
EQ
A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning
Adjustment to playback pitch, in cents (hundredths of a semitone) for finetuning and also larger shifts of up to three octaves, which can for instance beuseful in hearing low, murky bass parts by raising them by an octave or two.
Transposition
Special handling for those of you who play a transposing instrument such astrumpet or saxophone.
Speed
Speed variable from one twentieth to double speed.
Click here for an MP3 file (321 KB)demonstrating the sound quality ofslowdown-without-pitch-change. It contains 7 seconds of a guitar solo playedquite fast, followed by the same at half speed. This is what you get when youpress Transcribe!'s half-speed button.
Click here for some slowed down samples ofColtrane's 'Giant Steps'.
I haven't bothered to give lots of samples, since you can download Transcribe!for a free trial period and try it yourself.
Tutorial Videos
Here is a two minute video by me, Andy Robinson, giving a very brief overview of Transcribe!
youtu.be/8ujO2WD6Oj0
Here are some more videos demonstrating the use of Transcribe! - these have all been produced by Transcribe! users - thank you!
On this page there is an excellent quick start video - thank you Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck).
www.guitarworld.com/acoustic-nation/acoustic-nation-jennifer-batten-explores-transcribe-powerful-program-learn-new-material
Here is an excellent 20 minute tour of Transcribe! - thank you again Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck).
youtu.be/6lGIyiDwj2s?list=PLTHpZ4L0wq9Fyl91nrjzMinhYNRM41Vs-
Here is an excellent 30 minute tour of Transcribe! - thank you Ariane Cap.
arisbassblog.com/transcribe-tutorial-my-favorite-transcribing-software-explained/
Here are two videos totalling over 20 mins and showing many things - thank you Christopher O'Hara.
Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Xmsu6AI6c
Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrYpjglihYo
Here are three videos by Levi Clay showing how to transcribe - thank you Levi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBnJvcXuaPk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMN0e0z-b84
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz53B3kZg5s
Here is a long video in which Levi Clay transcribes some Allen Hinds fusion guitar before your very eyes. Thank you Levi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz53B3kZg5s
Here are several videos showing many things - harmonica focussed but applicable to all instruments. Includes (in video 5) an interesting technique for learning/memorising music by taking the phrases in reverse order. Thank you Carlos.
harmonicapractice.com/transcribing.html
There are three videos here totalling about 30 mins and showing many things - thank you Darren.
www.strumpatterns.com/Gear/LoopingMp3s.htm
This shows markers, EQ, speed and pitch change, and looping - thank you David at www.youtube.com/wallimann
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8oudKwQiA
If you go to about 5'40' in this one, there's a great demo of the right way to use Transcribe! for bass lines - thank you Luke at Become A Bassist.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6zvflY7Z70
This demonstrates using video looping for drummers (at about 2 minutes from the start) - thank you Beyond Salsa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXWJw-0a_fM
Other Languages
Transcribe! itself is in English only at present but here we have some tutorial material in other languages kindly offered by Transcribe! users.
Here is a tutorial video in German - thank you Bernd.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-e7SPryPac
Here is a brief written tutorial in French - thank you Michel.
Word document: FrançaisMiniGuideTranscribe.doc
Here is a brief video introduction in Spanish - thank you Arte Sonoro
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XytIEzVTJDQ
And another also in Spanish - thank you Daniel.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dfloresmusic/videos/472778489915605/
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Sometimes people ask me for a printed information sheet about Transcribe!.We don't distribute printed materials but here is a single-sided information sheet asa pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file which you are welcome to download and print out.
You may need to right-click it if you want to download the pdf file rather thanhave it open in your browser.
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