Manor Music
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i am looking for software that will listen to pre-recorded music and write it into sheet music...
we are looking to transpose our original recorded rock songs to write sheet music for our marching band to play...
There is no single program that will do what you want, and no set of programs that will produce anything usable in less time than manual transcription. There are third-party programs that will transcribe an audio track into written notes -- I believe Finale and Sibelius both come with light versions of such software. I suppose you can try to transcribe one instrument part at a time, but you will still have to do considerable manual correction to get it accurate and correctly-notated. Though software like this is pretty good at detecting note pitch, and both Finale and Sibelius are very good at correct spelling of enharmonics, software in general is very bad at accurately detecting note duration.to transcribe one of our songs top sheet music for our brass section took 5 hours...6 horns, guitar, bass, drums...we have a few dozen songs....
by the way we already know how to transcribe..
check out chef's delight, a song we posted here and there on
HomeRecording.com...
There is no single program that will do what you want, and no set of programs that will produce anything usable in less time than manual transcription. There are third-party programs that will transcribe an audio track into written notes -- I believe Finale and Sibelius both come with light versions of such software. I suppose you can try to transcribe one instrument part at a time, but you will still have to do considerable manual correction to get it accurate and correctly-notated. Though software like this is pretty good at detecting note pitch, and both Finale and Sibelius are very good at correct spelling of enharmonics, software in general is very bad at accurately detecting note duration.
Any way you look at it, transcription takes time. You're not really going to gain anything by doing it programmatically.