Computer programs used by musicians for practice, performance, or composition.
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What is good software for learning how to sight-read?
I'd like to learn how to sight-read on my own, but practicing the same song over and over again just causes me to memorize it, and filling out worksheets is boring.
Is there any good software for ...
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Software that allows playing in different temperaments
Do you know of any software out there that will allow me to play in different musical temperaments (e.g. Well temperament and Meantone temperament)? I'm especially interested in software that accepts ...
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Software that slows down music to help in transcribing.
while reading some of the questions about transcribing music here. I have come across these software tools that allow to slow down music and manipulate it freely. I think this is very interesting ...
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Are there any machine-readable databases of chord progressions available?
I'm interested in doing some linguistics-inspired computational musicology on chord progressions and am wondering if there are any freely available databases of chord progressions.
Obviously, I could ...
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Guitar tutoring software that listens to your playing?
I'm looking into learning classical guitar. I know most people will suggest getting lessons, and I'm looking into that.
But I was also wondering if there are any software tutors out there that can ...
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1answer
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Are there any publicly available databases for automatic polyphonic music transcription?
I conduct research on automatic transcription of polyphonic music. Currently, I use MAPS dataset.
In particular, I need monophonic recordings to be used as training data and polyphonic ones to be ...
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Software that Transposes Music?
I would love to be able to learn the flute by playing more popular music. However, all the free sheet music that I can find for a flute in the key of C is lame stuff like "Jingle Bells."
In my search ...
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What is a good software that allows on-the-fly looping?
I would like to practice playing solo by looping and mixing on the go, especially with a guitar.
For an example of that, if anyone knows KT Tunstall's performance of Black Horse and a Cherry Tree, ...
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Is there any midi software that can display in real-time the notes I play next to the “real” score?
I'm pretty new to the Piano, and pretty bad at sight-reading (but getting better:))
Still, sight-reading a new score takes me an awfull lot of time, especially when I don't "hear" the thing I'm ...
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Software for microtonal MIDI?
I'm looking to make some microtonal music (19/22 tone equal temperament). I want to produce it with midi. Timidity++ used to be able to produce a WAV file from a microtonal tuned .MID file, but it is ...
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How can I get the instrumentals for a song?
I'm wondering how people usually get the instrument track for the songs they want to sing.
I was wondering if there is any way I could get the instrumentals for the song at ...
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What music notation software can handle this complex beaming?
Update: It looks like the votes are clearly in favor of Lilypond. While Sibelius and Finale appear to be the "canonical" solutions, and MuseScore has a nice showing (albeit using a "development" ...
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Sound spectrum to notes software
I'm looking for software that can graphically assist in translating a sound frequency to notes.
Closest example of what I had in mind is FL Studio's Wave Candy plugin:
Hovering cursor above a ...
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is there any free tab viewer for GuitarPro files?
I just want to view not edit tabs and I think paying 60 bucks to listen/edit is too much.
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Using an electric guitar with GarageBand
To use an electric guitar with GarageBand, is a USB cable necessary?
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1answer
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Numerous questions about advanced guitar tablature notation
8 slide 0...why is 0 in parentheses?
7 slide 9...what does curve under mean?
5 7 5..7 5 0..are they hammers or pull offs..how you distinguish those
how to play this?
what does this long line ...
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Does software exist to catalogue band parts?
My brass band is looking at putting our band library catalogue into a database, but we haven't been able to find any software designed for this purpose. We'd like to store not only information about ...
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Lead sheets / fake sheets without score
Several of the groups of people I play music with use song sheets that are similar to lead sheets, but without the stave showing the melody line:
Note that unlike many chord sheets you can find ...
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Is there any notation software that supports unconvential notation like Schenker graphs?
What is the best free or cheap music editing software available? I am looking for something to write and edit scores with. I know that Finale and Sibelius are the best on the market, but I wouldn't ...
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Is there a program that can show a score bar by bar in realtime playing?
I am trying to improve my sight reading and a good exercise is to play a music score seeing only the next bar. I do this with my teacher covering the bar that I'm playing, but I can't do it at home, ...
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How can I rehearse and perform with PDF scores on screen instead of paper scores?
As a chorus and opera singer, I have gotten tired of lugging thick opera scores everywhere. Most of the music I sing is public-domain, and the scores are freely available in in PDF form. I am working ...
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Software to convert between sheet music and tablature?
Is there any software available that can (semi)automatically convert between ASCII tablature (especially for guitar and drums) and sheet music? And the other way around?
I realise that there's not ...
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Tool to help “read” sheet music
I'd like to learn how to sing songs. I have sheet music with 4 part harmony, but I don't really know how to read notes that well. Are there any tools that can sort of read sheet music for me? Like if ...
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Are the lessons in GarageBand worth it?
In Apple's GarageBand, there are guitar lessons, but I think they cost money to buy. Does anyone have any experience with these, and if so, are they good value?
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Transcribing a Standard MIDI File to sheet music
I have a couple of nice guitar midi files that I would like the scores for; is there any software out there that can do this sort of conversion, and output it as a PDF file?
Thanks
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Realistic Virtual Piano
I recently started playing around with my MIDI keyboard and Garageband. However, I noticed the default "Grand Piano" etc. in Garageband have very poor sound and expression capability.
Is there a free ...
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Is there any open source notation software for indian shrutis?
I would like to write down Shruti music but I wasn't able to find notation software for that.
Do you know any?
edit: Live Playback would be a great feature.
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How to play together online?
We had a band of musicians but unfortunately, my partners went abroad for further studies. Currently we're far away. We want to meet at some time in a week and play together online. We've tried Skype ...
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Software for trying out 19-TET (and others)
I've been reading on non-standard scales such as the 19-tone equal temperament. I'd really like to try some of them out, but it turns out to be difficult. Adjusting a physical instrument would be a ...
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I want to be like Madeon. Where do I start?
I recently stumbled upon this live mashup and I am electrified. The fellow's name is Madeon, and he has a number of similarly great remixes and mashups on SoundCloud.
I've always enjoyed electronic ...
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Software for practicing the reading of jazz chord changes?
There are now a lot of good programs out for sight-reading, simple chord progression recognition, and for jazz, even some backing track creators. But is there a program that generates chord changes ...
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How to write guitar tremolo with Sibelius software?
I'm trying to create the music sheet of "Recuerdos de La Alhambra" with Sibelius music notation software.
How to create tremolos in Sibelius?
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I am bored with a metronome, should I get a drum machine?
I'm a big fun of using a metronome while practicing, but after a while it just gets boring to hear all this solid ticking. When you play scales and stuff like that, it's ok, but when you are playing a ...
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Is there a computer program to transcribe songs to sheet music?
Is there a computer program that I can use where I upload a favourite song and it'll transcribe it to sheet music for me? I'd like to play Running up That Hill by Placebo but I don't want to buy the ...
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Is it possible to use video games to help improve one's singing?
I've decided that I want to improve my singing. In order to give me incentive to practice (and regular feedback), I thought getting a video game might be of help. I know that it's no substitute for ...
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Is there software for computer assisted drum lessons with MIDI input?
My little brother wants to learn drumming, and seeing that I have a cheap RockBand drums clone lying around I wanted to know if there are is some kind of didactic software for drums that accepts MIDI ...
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Singing software
What are software options that will tell you where you've gone out of tune in the performance of a given song? Better if it can work with any song file or has a wealth of community-content.
Sort of ...
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Removing human voice from songs
I have been trying so much to do this but to no avail. Some softwares like cooledit remove it to an extent but ruin other things in the music. Please suggest some good method for this.
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Is there any kind of jam helper application?
I can't stand it anymore - my friend just struck me again. We have arranged to jam tonight after work, but he didn't bring his guitar. Again. They all keep doing it occasionally.
The thing is I'm ...
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Karaoke Software for practicing sax
In my sax classes, my teacher accompanies me with his piano. He corrects my timing mistakes. Also, it sounds better than playing alone.
I just came up with a software which can help me to do it at ...
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Where/how can I get a song's backing track without a specific instrument so I can play for it?
I've been playing with the violin for a while now.
The latest song I learned was He's a Pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean. 'cuz it is a lot of fun.
I want to make a video of me playing it. And it ...
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Get rid (or try to) of latency when using a MIDI instrument
I'm using Logic Pro (I have Snow Leopard) and I have a Korg R3 and a VB-99 as music instruments...
I use usb connection on both and I would like to have suggestions and ideas to get rid of the latency ...
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Learning tablature with tutoring software that shows me what to do in real-time [closed]
I want to practice playing songs off of tablature, but I think it would be easier for me if I saw the actual notes displayed on a virtual fretboard while the song is playing. Guitar Guru does ...
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Visual representation of sound
Graphical sound visualization (as available in several music players, eg winamp) is mostly used for fun, to add some visuals to the music, related to it in some way ( pseudo spectrum analysers, ...
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Notating tenor vocal parts with 8va G-clef in Sibelius 6
I might be slightly off-topic here, but this is the closest StackExchange site I could find to my topic, so here goes...
I recieved a sibelius file with a choir arrangement from a friend. Now, I want ...
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Effectively using singing games for vocal training
What are productive ways to use the "Rock Band" video game as part of a vocal training regimen?
Are there any bad habits/practices that singing along with this type of game tends to promote?
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How to make nonstandard scales on Finale?
I'm trying to use the scale:
A,C,F#,A
And then:
A,B,C#,D#,F,G,A
But I'll need to input a nonstandard key signature. How can I do that?
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How to learn the Smart Guitar of GarageBand for iPad?
Anybody know what's the best way to learn the Smart Guitar feature of GarageBand for non-guitarist? Specifically in these areas:
What note does each string play? (a screen reference that says "tap ...
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Color coded spectrum analyzer
Does anyone know of any software that will overlay a waveform with color coded frequencies?
i.e. Low frequency is colored as red, mids as yellow and highs as green (or something like that) and the ...
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Serato Scratch Live or Traktor Scratch Pro? (Or None)
I've been DJing for around 6 months now, and I think I'm at a mediocre level (even though I've had a month off due to broken tone arm, moving house and a terrible supplier who still hasn't dispatched ...
