I use Transcribe! regularly. I don't rely much on the chord recognition
because it isn't all that accurate. If I am having trouble hearing a
particular harmony, I might look at what Transcribe has detected.
Sometimes it is helpful, but not nearly enough to generate MIDI notes
accurately.
Recent versions of Band-in-a-Box come with the ability to detect chords
and tempos from most pop music tracks. This actually works surprisingly
well once one learns a few tricks for pointing the software in the right
direction. I tested it when it first came out, enough to be really
impressed. In my projects, I often reharmonize things, so I don't really
save time by having BIAB analyze chords. But it is really neat and can
be instructive.
Probably the best note recognition in the industry as of today is in
Celemony's Melodyne. It can recognize polyphonics, but not in a full
production with many instruments. If you have a string quartet, for
example, it might do a decent job of recognizing most of the notes.
On another plane, Izotope RX7 has a new feature that can "remix" a WAV
or MP3. It uses some AI processing to try to isolate vocals, bass, and
percussion from the other musical elements, allowing you to boost or cut
any of those. It actually works pretty well in some cases. But it
doesn't identify individual notes. Instead, it is looking for the
overtone patterns that are typical of voices, bass, and percussion.
Ultimately, it should be possible for software to combine what Melodyne
(individual note recognition) and RX7 (overtone analysis) do to "hear"
as a human hears and make more sense out of it. I don't think we are
real close to that, however. That's probably a decade away, but
ultimately, it might be possible for software to listen to a recording
and create a MusicXML score we could use as a starting point for a project.
I think the point of all of this (IMHO) is that some of the notation
products seem to be managed as if they are at end of life. I believe we
are actually at the BEGINNING of an era. I'd say the products to watch are
* Musescore, because of its widespread use and possibility of a very
broad developer base if the project is managed aggressively.
* Notion, which is not very advanced compared to Sibelius, Finale and
Dorico, but is leading in the integration with the DAW world (StudioOne
in that case.)
* Dorico, because it is under very active development, is under the
well-funded Yamaha umbrella, and benefits from Steinberg's deep DAW roots.
The other products seem to be mostly static. If they do what one needs,
stick with them, simple as that. But I don't expect them to move into
these new dimensions very quickly, if at all.
On 3/18/2019 6:12 PM, Graeme Gerrard wrote:
There is a program called Transcribe! that is intended as an aid in aurally
transcribing music. It has so many useful features in this regard.
But it can also generate a piano roll style notation that works reasonable
well, even of polyphonic pieces. He has some contextual smarts in there for
determining chords I think.
I have tried to encourage the designer, Seven Strings Software,
https://www.seventhstring.com/, to elaborate on this to save the piano roll out
as a midi or musicXML file. He says he is not interested in doing this because
he says it is important for people to do things aurally. That’s all well and
good, but I can’t help feeling like this would be a fantastic feature too.
Someone will do it.
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