 Transcribe!
is the world's leading software for helping musicians to work out music from recordings.
It is also used by many people for play-along practice, and also for speech transcription.
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Transcribe! features:
Transcribe! reads audio from many
different types of audio file and audio CD. It also has a "Record" facility for
recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audio waveform
and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and
easily play or loop from any point.
Transcribe! can also display the video
synchronised to the audio for some video files (on Windows & Mac, not yet Linux).
Loops and positions can be stored and
recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like. You
can configure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your hands
free: 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 pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a
graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the
graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic
bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
Transcribe! will perform "note
guessing" and "chord guessing" - that is, it will
attempt to interpret the spectrum information for you, marking the notes being played on
the piano keyboard, and attempting to name the chords (in standard form such as
"Am", "E7#9", etc).
Transcribe! supports Automation (or
Scripting). You can run Transcribe! automatically from commands in a file, perhaps to
process a number of sound files, saving them at different altered speeds, or to instruct
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" unless your machine is old
& slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is
performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ
etc. For instance if you press the half-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 in various
ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as "karaoke" as it sometimes has
the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panned dead-centre).
EQ: A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning: Adjustment to playback pitch, in
cents (hundredths of a semitone) for fine tuning and also larger shifts of up to three
octaves, which can for instance be useful 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 as trumpet or saxophone.
Speed: Speed variable from one twentieth
(1/20) to double speed.
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The Transcribe! application is an
assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording,
in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.
It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player
program which is optimised for the purpose of transcription. It has many
transcription-specific features not found on conventional music players.
It is also used by many people for play-along
practice. It can change pitch and speed instantly, and you can
store and recall any number of named loops. There is
some advice about this in Transcribe!'s help, under the heading "Various
Topics".
Transcribe! is also used
for speech transcription. With its support for foot pedals and its
superior slowed-down sound quality, it is an excellent choice for this purpose. There is
some advice about this 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 people who want to listen
to whole tracks. They are very inconvenient for transcribing music as they are not
designed for this purpose.
Copy the recording to your computer's hard disk as a sound file and you can use
Transcribe! instead. Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription
job smoother and 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 of adding markers and textual annotations so you can easily
navigate around the track. Transcribe! also has a piano keyboard displayed on screen which
you can click to play reference notes.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job,
processing an audio file and outputting musical notation or midi - this would be nice, but
is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for
working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide
which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and
which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums. If you
have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably
not help you, but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can
make the job a lot quicker and easier.
If you are working from a video file then on
Windows & Mac (not yet on Linux) Transcribe! will display the video too. You may need
to convert the video to a suitable format first, and install QuickTime if you are on
Windows (it's a free download).
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files
- these already contain explicit information about what notes are to be played and when,
and there are plenty of programs available which can display this information. Transcribe!
deals with audio 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, pitch change and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if
you want.
Transcribe! is available for Windows, Mac OSx and Linux.
Transcribe! is Copyright © 1998-2016 Seventh
String Software.
You may download
Transcribe! and use it for 30 days evaluation period for free.
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 whose stated
purpose is to help you to transcribe music. 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 the main function of the program. I have done a lot
of transcribing and I have always found that the most awkward and tedious part of the job
is simply that of navigating around the track and controlling playback. On a CD or other
conventional music player, the business of finding again the section you want to hear, of
playing again the phrase you are working on, and generally knowing where you are, is a
constant distraction from actually concentrating on the music.
Transcribe! displays the track as a
scrollable waveform from left to right. You can place markers for sections,
measures and beats, and you can label them with descriptive names and add textual
annotations if you want. The markers identify the various points in the track and
you can click on any point to play instantly from that 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 of concentrating on fiddling with the playback controls and wondering where
you are. This may not sound very glamorous but if you actually do transcribe music then I
think you will appreciate what I am saying.
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