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Ask HN: Software for interpreting analog music chords?

1 pointsby achillesheelsover 2 years ago
Greetings,<p>I happened to get into music (specifically guitar) during the pandemic and have had a blast recording my riffs. However, I leave the music recorded on my iPhone and have a hard time remembering or reconstructing the exact notes&#x2F;chords I discover.<p>Does anyone know of any chord&#x2F;notes interpreter on the web or for sale? I’d love to feed in the guitar lines and have a time-dependent output of the notes I had been fooling around with :)<p>Thanks in advance! -Joseph A.

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ksherlockover 2 years ago
Apple used to have a &quot;Music Memos&quot; app for recording musical memos. It also identified chords and allowed you to add auto-generated bass and&#x2F;or drums. Sadly it was removed a year or two back and users were told to use garage band instead.<p>For iPhone and Mac, there&#x27;s Capo which will identify chords and gives a pretty spectrograph for identifying individual notes and tabbing it out.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermegaultragroovy.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;capo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;supermegaultragroovy.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;capo&#x2F;</a><p>Another option (windows, mac, linux) is Transcribe!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seventhstring.com&#x2F;xscribe&#x2F;overview.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seventhstring.com&#x2F;xscribe&#x2F;overview.html</a>
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fiedziaover 2 years ago
There are midi pickups (or midi guitars) which you can use for this purpose (for future sessions, not for reconstructing existing recording).
CrypticShiftover 2 years ago
this is often called “audio to midi&quot; or &quot;Music Transcription&quot;.<p>In term of simplicity, Decoda [0] is supposed to give chords even for full songs. It is not precise though.<p>FYI, the best precision out there on polyphonic guitar audio seems to be with Jam Origin [1]. It aims to feed live guitar to midi synths, so you will have to fiddle around on a DAW with another plugin to analyze your midi as chords.<p>AI solved this recently to a higher accuracy, but there is no user friendly guitar audio in -&gt; chords list out, app yet (to my knowledge)<p>[0] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pluginboutique.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;3-Studio-Tools&#x2F;93-Music-Theory-Tools&#x2F;6057-deCoda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pluginboutique.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;3-Studio-Tools&#x2F;93-Mus...</a><p>[1] : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jamorigin.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jamorigin.com</a>
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pinewurstover 2 years ago
You should still be able to find the free (on discontinuation) Fender Riffstation Pro software out there. That’s what I’ve been using for a long time now.
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