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Most transcription software will automatically loop; or at least easily let you loop a section of audio such as someone making the "ooh" sound in "Today". It will do this easier than a full-blown waveform editing program.
Doing this inside transcription software will save you from having to manually edit the track, loop it, etc. These programs will allow ...
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This could be done with a piece of hardware or software called a sampler, but you should be able to accomplish the same with any waveform editor--or a combination of the two.
Essentially, you will be "cropping" the audio file in order to isolate only the tone in question, and ideally in a way that sounds the same both at the beginning and end of the ...
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It would be difficult to do.
You may try Audacity
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Sonic Visualizer
http://sonicvisualiser.org/ is free and can do regular spectrograms with a piano scale along the left side, automatic note transcriptions (and play them back), chromagrams, etc.
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HarmonEye
It can show you the pitches that are played in real-time (without regard to the octaves and no matter which instruments play it). There's no time axis but you can pause it and read out the tones or chords. It is not restricted to files loaded from disk. In fact it can listen on a system input (either the microphone or routed system output) so that ...
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There are a lot of software designers trying to do this. I know it's a hot commodity. However, programming a computer to think like a musician; isolate fundamental frequencies, determine key and pitch, and notate, is quite an ordeal that ins't done well in any self-transcribing software I've seen.
You're best bet is to hire a transcriber. :)
It'll ...
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Melodyne
The Celemony Melodyne family of products can achieve this, among other functions. The products are expensive but they are the state of the art.
From the website:
What Melodyne is
Melodyne is a program for your Mac or PC that offers truly
extraordinary possibilities for the editing of audio. For Melodyne
recognizes the notes that are ...
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I would recommend you avoid trying to use video. Unless you are 'local' to each other the latency and jitter makes it very difficult to play together.
Audio can be encoded with much lower latency and is typically a fixed bandwidth requirement so this copes better with connection issues.
Tools like Jamulus (http://sourceforge.net/projects/llcon/) are ...
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It depends on how you want to make this work, what kind of grade your internet connection is, if you all live in the same city and have the same ISP as these factors will decide the audio quality and latency.
Audio:
Use Skype audio (conference) calls. These are free, or
If all of you guys use DAW's for recording then you could try VST's like ReaStream ...
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If money is not an issue, ISDN is perfect for this. You'd still have to connect via Skype/etc. (if you want video), but the average latency for ISDN is about 10ms. This amount might not even be noticeable to you. Many people in the voice-over industry use this, because it allows for a higher quality audio signal, as well as very low latency. Collaborating is ...
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Old-fashioned analog landline telephone circuits had many limitations, but there is very little delay between when a party at one end says something and when the party at the other end hears it. Other technologies often involve trade-offs between audio quality and delay; for most purposes, a delay of 100ms or even longer would be barely noticeable, but ...
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As @guidot said, nothing replaces human oversight. But a good piece of software (I use Digital Performer, which is decidedly not free) can quantize the MIDI performance, which helps it render a more conventional-looking score. But you will still have to clean it up.
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Music Spectrograph
There's an iOS (iPhone/iPad) app, Music Spectrograph, designed for just this purpose (Disclaimer. It's my app in the iTunes App Store.) The Y axis is scaled to a midi keyboard. Works both with live audio and with sound files. "Assist" is the right word, as a spectrograph can display a lot and lots of overtones, leaving a human with ...
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Musescore is free as opposed to many other programs such as Sibelius or Finale. However, it is still very good and can do almost everything that paid programs can do.
One of the input files accepted in Musescore is MIDI and it can output PDF among other formats. However, as guidot said, it takes a human to do it right because a MIDI file does not contain ...
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This is not quite a "conversion", since the midi file is on a much lower level than a score. So while you will surely get some output, it is more than questionable, whether somebody can play from it without considerable editing. As an example midi contains nothing about a key and so has to make wild guesses concerning accidentals, same for time signature, ...
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Guitar pro does midi import and pdf export, so you should be able to obtain tabs and scores from it.
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